Unique Aotearoa Composer Casual Healing Announces Tour of New Zealand this May | Live Nation News (2025)

AUCKLAND, NZ (APRIL 9, 2025) – Rising Aotearoa star CASUAL HEALING has today announced a tour across New Zealand, heading to Auckland and Wellington this May. The soulful solo project of Nikau Te Huki, Casual Healing is creating a soothing “golden-era sound” as part of his mission to heal with is music. Having achieved notable success of the back of his self-produced debut album ‘Driftwood’ in 2024, and with new music dropping just in time for these tour dates, these shows are not ones to miss.

Casual Healing will begin his tour in Auckland at the Tuning Fork on Thursday May 1, followed by a performance at Meow Nui in Wellington on Thursday May 8.

Tickets go on sale at 12pm Monday April 14.

My Live Nation members can also secure tickets during the Live Nation presale beginning 12pm Friday 11 April.

For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.co.nz

Intimacy, connection – human and spiritual – has been embedded into the foundations of Nikau Te Huki’s artistry. For over six years, the journey this Pōneke-based creative has been on has yielded incredible musical results that have mirrored life experiences loved, lived and learned from. His soulful solo project Casual Healing is a perfect example of Nikau’s creative vision and emotional intelligence coming together with balance and impact.

Since his impressive debut in 2024 with his album DRIFTWOOD, Casual Healing wasted no time in captivating audiences across sold out tours and festival experiences that have included, but have not been limited to, SXSW Sydney, Rhythm & Vines, TSB Festival of Lights, and more. Redefining himself as an artist in 2025, Casual Healing will record and release a series of 4 EPs inspired by Te Taio, the natural world. Each EP will be unique in genre and theme, representing the balance of the four key elements in our world AHI (fire), HAU (wind), WAI (water), and ONE (earth).

The first EP to be released is AHI, dropping on April 11^th 2025. Through AHI, listeners can experience Casual Healing’s fresh steps into a new chapter of music, providing us with five new waiata to aid on the healing journeys.

2024 was a breakthrough year for Casual Healing, as his brand of Māori roots-reggae fusion continued to gain traction at home in Aotearoa, while also seeding itself brilliantly across a string of successful shows in Australia. Armed with DRIFTWOOD – named one of Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s ‘Best New Zealand Albums of 2024’ – Casual Healing became a fresh champion for Aotearoa’s thriving music scene outside of his home nation, and was recognised as such. Ever aware of the power of his platform, as well as the power of music, Nikau completed this DRIFTWOOD arc with knowledge and self-awareness about him that has been taken into the studio; the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter readying his next layered Casual Healing project.

CASUAL HEALING

TUNING FORK, AUCKLAND THURSDAY MAY 1

MEOW NUI, WELLINGTON THURSDAY MAY 8

Live Nation Presale runs Friday April 11, 12pm – Monday April 14, 11am

General Public Onsale: Monday April 14, 12pm

For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.co.nz

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