Neil Murray

Neil Murray is a maverick songman yielding classic songs such as My Island Home, Blackfella Whitefella and Fitzroy Crossing. He was a founding member of The Warumpi Band with over […]

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The Maes

Beloved Melbourne folk band The Maes is the brainchild of sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby. With echoes of Gillian Welch and The Waifs, there’s a timeless luminescence and simplicity to […]

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Archer

Local legend and ill-fated explorer of the interior recesses of the embattled brain-box, Archer tours regularly, including in Canada and North America, playing music halls and theatres and the Montreal […]

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Joe Geia

Singer/songwriter, Joe Geia has made a highly significant and enduring contribution to the arts. As the writer of renowned songs such as Yil Lull and Uncle Willie, he remains an […]

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Uptown Brown

‘Uptown’ Brown! is a singing gentleman-adventurer performing a program of primitive 1920’s-1930’s jazz and blues on a self invented one man band. A quality musical and roving act in the […]

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Those Folk

‘Those Folk’ are a husband & wife musical duo comprised of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, Lawrence Menard and Clare Quinn. A partnership forged in the fires of folk music, their songwriting […]

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Wunderhorns

The Wunderhorns is a 7-piece Balkan folk-ska-trubaci outfit based in Ballarat. With high to low end brass, gypsy percussion and woodwinds, the Wunderhorns perform banging beats, lush harmonies and soaring […]

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We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders and recognise that sovereignty was never ceded.