Iconic Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I announced on her Facebook page last week that she would put on a big show on February 20 for the Australian town that made the most noise.
With the tragedy of the recent fires in Harcourt and, well, our community being who they are, people instantly jumped on the bandwagon, starting a social media campaign to get the superstar’s attention.
The ‘Bring Tones and I to Harcourt’ Facebook page was set up and now has 2.3k likes and is being shared across the community.
The Mail contacted the Tones and I management team, who confirmed the legitimacy of the offer.
“As you can understand, we’ve been inundated with emails in response to Tones’ show in Australia,” they wrote.
“We’re reviewing every single one and putting everything into the draw for Tones to decide. There are a lot of genuine and emotional reasons that people are explaining, and we want you to know we are reading them all and are very moved seeing the different reasons and the experiences everyone is going through. We see you!
“Thank you, team Tones x.”
Local publican and artist manager, Jeremy Furze, has been enlisted to help the cause and is in the process of making a video with kids from Harcourt to help draw attention to the campaign.
“People are excited. Tones and I is an incredible artist with one of the top three songs of all time – Dance Monkey is a mega once-in-a-generation hit, and no one has beaten her with streams since it’s come out,” he said.
“Tones has created a beautiful career of hits; her last two albums have been hits, backed up with a lot of great songs, an arena act. It would be a big deal for her to come to Harcourt; an artist like her doesn’t go and play smaller regional theatres, she’s so busy. It would be very special for an act like Tones to come to Harcourt.
“Harcourt has a very organised recovery committee. Only a week on and there’s structure to it, a lot of people fulfilling roles, media, coms, operations, coordinated effort, so it would be a really good show.”
There are only two more days until Tones and I is expected to make her choice, so make sure you jump on the ‘Bring Tones and I to Harcourt’ Facebook page and make some noise!
