Neil Finn to perform on Golden Plains Festival 2017

Rock star Neil Finn of Crowded House will have a solo performance on next year’s Golden Plains festival.

The 58-year-old Kiwi singer-songwriter is among the featured artists on the 2017 line, according to the Golden Plains XI event organizers.

“One of the most wonderful songwriters in the history of music and one of the most talented humans walking this Earth will take to the stage for a rare and very special performance, as a Full Moon rises at GPXI,” the organizers said on the event website.

“Neil’s songs strike a chord that resonates in such a way that it shakes something loose within us. Beautiful, bittersweet and melancholy at times, then glorious, raucous and triumphant at others, joy to the world.”

Finn was the co-front man for Split Enz along with his brother Tim Finn. He is currently the front man of Crowded House, which gained popularity for their 1987 sing “Don’t Dream It’s Over.”

The guitar-playing pop artist eventually launched a solo career after Crowded Houses disbanded in 1996. He also released albums in collaboration with Tim under the title “The Finn Brothers.” His latest and third studio album, “Dizzy Heights,” was released in February 2014, after the last Crowded House world tour concluded.

Finn’s “Song of the Lonely Mountain” was featured in the 2012 film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

Before the Golden Plains festival scheduled on March 12 to 13, 2017 at the Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre in Victoria, Finn is set to perform in a fundraising concert for non-profit group “So They Can” in Queenstown.

Meanwhile, Crowded House is set to perform at the Syndey Opera House on Nov. 24 for their Encore concert. A fourth show is scheduled at the Syndey Opera House on Nov. 27 due to demand.