Irving Gets On His Bike

NYC-based folk musician Gideon Irving figured that his tour through New Zealand “should reflect the intimacy” of his current album, My Brother Is Isaac.

So he’s playing in 60 homes across 4,828 kilometres of NZ, traveling on his bike.

He rides between 30 and 80 kilometres a day, carrying his banjo, guitar, bouzouki, bells, shruti box, mbira and jews harps on a trailer.

So far he’s performed in bedrooms, lounge rooms and porches, to between 6 and 40 people. “I played a kitchen, which with nine people, was pretty crowded.”