Maisie Peters’ Australian fans got more than they bargained for on Wednesday night (March 4) when Ed Sheeran joined her on stage for an intimate performance of “Castle On The Hill.”
The special moment, hinted at in Billboard.com, happened during the opening show of her two-night stand at Forum Melbourne — a room with a capacity of just 2,000.
The last time the pair shared a stage in these parts was when Peters opened for Sheeran in 2023, for the domestic stadium leg of his – = ÷ x Tour (pronounced The Mathematics Tour). On that visit, Sheeran broke multiple national records at the towering Melbourne Cricket Ground, including upwards of 105,000 tickets sold on one night, and 109,500 shifted the next.
Peters shared the “magical” clip on her socials, accompanied with the comment “singing with my boss Ed Sheeran.” She’s not entirely wrong; Peters is signed to Sheeran’s label Gingerbread Man Records via Atlantic U.K., part of Warner Music Group.
She continues, “thank u (Ed Sheeran) for singing the best song ever with me at my show in Melbourne tonight. still remember watching you play this one all 60 something gigs we did together, and it was so magical getting to join you on it for one. the best to ever do it.”
Peters is nearing the end of her aptly-titled Before The Bloom tour of Australia, in support of her forthcoming third studio album, Florescence, due out May 15. The Australia visit is her first since her sold-out The Good Witch Comes To Australia tour in March 2024, for three headline dates in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
Florescence is co-produced with two-time Grammy Award winner Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé, Chris Stapleton), features duets with Julia Michaels and Marcus Mumford, and is the followup to her breakthrough sophomore effort The Good Witch, which went to No. 4 on the ARIA Chart and No. 1 on the Official U.K. Chart.
With her U.K chart crown in June 2023 for The Good Witch, Peters, at 23 years of age, became the youngest British female solo artist in almost a decade to top the albums frame. Her debut collection, You Signed Up for This, peaked at No. 2 in U.K. back in 2021.
Sheeran completes his Australian Loop Tour tonight (March 5) at Adelaide Oval, while Peters will play the last of her four Australian shows tonight at the Forum. Frontier Touring is producing both treks.
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