Aurora plays her song "Heathens" live in concert at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California on May 17, 2022. Heathens appeared on Aurora's third studio album, The Gods We Can Touch (2022). Aurora Aksnes is an award-winning Norwegian singer-songwriter who grew up in Os, Norway and now lives in Bergen. Joining her onstage were Fredrik Svabø (guitar), Magnus Skylstad (drums), Njål Paulsberg (keyboards), and Amalie Holt Kleive (backing vocals).
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Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch live tour dates (2022):
May 15 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
May 17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield Theatre
May 19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
May 20 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
May 21 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
May 23 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
May 25 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
May 27 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
May 28 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
May 29 - Toronto, ON @ History
May 31 - Montreal, QC @ Mtelus
June 1 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
June 2 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
June 4 - New York, NY @ SummerStage in Central Park
June 5 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
June 16 - Bergen, Norway @ Bergenfest
June 18 - Scheessel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
June 19 - Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival
June 21 - Berlin, Germany @ Tempodrom
June 22 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Forum Karlin
June 24 - Wroclaw, Poland @ Centrum Koncertowe A2
June 25 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Refinery Gallery
June 27 - Kraków, Poland @ Klub Studio
June 28 - Gdańsk, Poland @ Klub B90
June 29 - Warsaw, Poland @ Progresja
July 1 - Vilnius, Lithuania @ Lukiškių Kalėjimas
July 2 - Seinäjoki, Finland @Provinssi Music Festival
July 6-10 - Kyiv, Ukraine @ Atlas Festival
Aug. 10-13 - Oslo, Norway @ Øyafestivalen
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Aurora official bio:
“Every time I make an album I feel like I know why I’m here,” smiles beloved-to-millions singer, songwriter, unexpected TikTok sensation and omnipresent pop enigma Aurora. “There are so many dark forces roaming around the earth but music can be such a beam of light, if you allow it to be.”
In a world so beautifully overrun by multifaceted pop artists, Aurora leads the pack. Admired by many of her peers — from Billie Eilish, Troye Sivan and Doja Cat to Katy Perry and Shawn Mendes — there’s a strong case to be made for Aurora being your favourite popstar’s favourite popstar. You know Aurora, even if you don’t know Aurora. So yes, that was Aurora’s face beaming out into the darkness during the Chemical Brothers’ 2019 Glastonbury headline slot, but yes that was also Aurora’s voice on 2015’s John Lewis Christmas ad. There she was at the 2020 Oscars, performing her contribution to Frozen 2’s pivotal track Into The Unknown, but there she also was at Coachella and at Lollapalooza, and across all those US talkshows, and that’s her music on millions of TikToks and, well, you get the idea. “I suppose I am a diverse human being,” she laughs. “But then, I think all people are, deep down. I just do what I want. I’m like an animal sometimes — to be honest most of the time I relate to the animals more than humans.”
Growing up surrounded by forests and mountains near Bergen, Norway, Aurora first felt the compulsion to sit alone and create at six years old; by the time she was twelve she’d written Runaway, a song that would later receive a full release and, later still and thousands of miles away, inspire another twelve-year-old, Billie Eilish, to make her own music. “I didn’t understand where the melodies or words came from,” Aurora admits. “I used words whose meanings I didn’t even know. But I knew I felt good. And I couldn’t stop. It’s been all-consuming ever since. Sometimes I struggle to find meaning in anything else, because nothing else can compare.”
