Damien Leith said the tour commemorates 30 years since Roy Orbison was inducted into the Rock'n'Roll and Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
Damian Leith recalled his first memories of listening to Roy Orbison.
"When I was a teenager and I was just starting to get into singing, at that point I Drove All Night was being played on the radio, and I used to hear it all the time and that was my first taste of his music," he said.
In 2006, in the middle of his Australian Idol experience, Leith sang Orbison's Crying, which took him from the Top 4 to winning the talent quest TV show that year.
"I believe that singing Crying was a turning point for me, it reached a big audience and had an effect in the rest of my career."
Damien Leith recorded his fourth studio album in the US, Roy: A Tribute to Roy Orbison (2011), released on April 2011.
The album was released to coincide with what would have been Orbison's 75th birthday.
The album peaked at number 2, and spent 25 non-consecutive weeks on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart and gained platinum certification.
Leith said his album was produced by Barbara Orbison, Roy's widow. Mrs Orbison died on December 2011, aged 61.
Melson co-wrote some of Orbison's biggest hits, such as Crying, Lana and Only the Lonely.
"From my relationship with him, probably more than with Barbara, I learned so much about Orbison," Leith said.
