
Evan Rhys’s music lifts the soul. Having recorded an album of prisoners' songs live in Spring Hill Prison, Evan knows how music can restore hope. Get lost in pop rock melodies that twist and turn with life’s ebb and flow, but always leave you smiling. Evan is joined by his band of top Taranaki musicians in this one off Tauranga show.
Born and raised in Taranaki, the former front man for old skool Waikato band, ‘Somersault’ is returning to the airwaves with his new solo material. Evan Rhys has used his passion for music to help elevate the lives of those around him. He recorded and released an album of prisoners’ songs entitled, ‘If These Walls Could Speak’. He then went to work with Awa Productions on the critically acclaimed Maori Television series, ‘Songs From The Inside’. Meanwhile Evan’s own songs continued to take shape in the background and have slowly bubbled to the surface. His EP, ‘Flickering Stars’ was released in February last year and features an eclectic mix of pop songs that are at once nostalgic and new in the same breath. There is life lived in these songs and beyond everything, resonating hope that permeates through this EPless