ORIANTHI CONFIRMED AS JOHN MAYER
SUPPORT IN AUSTRALIA

According to ... well, everyone ... she's beautiful, incredible and we can't get her out of our heads.

Orianthi, the 25 year old South Australian blonde "rock-chick" guitarist who found fame in Michael Jackson's This Is It movie and with her debut single, the Top 10-peaking hit, According To You, was today announced as the support for the five-date Australian leg of John Mayer's Battle Studies Tour which starts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on April 30 and ends at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on May 8.

Tickets for the concerts go on general sale this Friday, February 19, from Ticketek and in Sydney from Ticketmaster.

Just weeks after being the only Australian performer in the We Are The World remake, the LA-based guitar prodigy is excited to be coming home soon.

A believer that "dreams do come true" - and in her case, and then some! - Orianthi is no stranger to rubbing shoulders with stars of the 'super' kind.

She's been mixin' it up with the 'big boys', as the say, since she was a teenager.

Her first support was opening for Steve Vai when she was 15.  Next up was ZZ Top.  She jammed with Santana when she was 18.

"Insane," she says.

In 2009 it was on-stage with Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

Then, in a modern twist on the old-fashioned fairytale, she didn't get the 'call', but rather, the 'email' - via MySpace - from Michael Jackson's Musical Director asking if she wanted to audition for This Is It.

"I didn't think it was for real," she said.

"Getting into his band, actually being hired, by MJ, was a really special and amazing moment, there were tears."

Supporting John Mayer is another star-string to her dream-bow and it's doubly special and amazing because she's coming home to Oz.

"It's amazing, I get to play with a lot of my Idols.  It's pretty surreal," she said.

Orianthi has got the pedigree, and the chops, to go guitar-to-guitar with Mayer, himself a virtuoso.

"I think in life you should go with what you sort of 'get' and I sort of 'got' playing the guitar, you know, but I guess that's my path to walk down in life."

"It's a true double whammy," said promoter, Chugg Entertainment's Executive Chairman, Michael Chugg of the concert line-up.  "It's going to be great."

And to Orianthi, the last word, "I just love playing, it makes me really happy."

Us too Orianthi, us too!

Happy days ahead for Aussie audiences when Orianthi opens for John Mayer in April and May.