KERRYN FIELDS

Fuelled by reverence, integrity and a deep spiritual connection to the human experience, New Zealand songwriter Kerryn Fields paints timeless musical portraits that do what others rarely can: bring us home to ourselves. 

2022 saw Kerryn Fields rubbing shoulders with Baker Baker Boy in the Best Album and Best Artist categories at the Music Victoria Awards and she took out the Best Folk Act award for her album ‘Water’. 

Radiating warmth, humor and a depth of character that’s palpable as soon as she enters a room, Fields utilises music and storytelling as a vehicle for doing what she does best: making peace with her own human existence. It’s because of this startling ability to meet and embrace herself so willingly that others feel able to do the same.

Fields’ will be joined by her band of Angels who deliver spacious, flawless harmonies and incredible musicianship, it’s not hard to see why they have floored audiences at festivals and stages across Australia and New Zealand. Special guest and fellow Kiwi artist Matt Joe Gow will make an appearance as they debut a brand new song together. 

WE MAVERICKS 

Spotlight showcase artists for Folk Alliance International 2022, nominated Aotearoa (NZ) Music Awards “Best Folk Artist” 2022, nominated Australian Folk Music Awards "Artists of the Year, Best Duo/Group/Ensemble" 2021 and recipients of the 2020 Troubadour Foundation Award, We Mavericks continue to enthrall audiences far and wide. 

Fresh off the National Folk Festival, We Mavericks are bringing their strange trademark tightness and evocative originals to Melbourne for the first time. This troubadour duo pack mighty punches, but bring songs to heal your scars. Featuring only a foot-stomping Kiwi and a small-town Australian, they make music that is more than the sum of its parts. 

Lindsay Martin’s masterful violin, mandolin and vocals meet Victoria Vigenser’s mesmerising voice and guitar work, in driving rhythms and a connectedness you must see to believe. Imagine an organic blend of lyrical pop and acoustic folk, but with echoes of soulful Americana in the harmonies, and Celtic roots running deeply throughout the instrumentation.

Their strangely gritty, evocative performances have seen them on a steep and fast rise to the big stages in both home countries; Spotlight showcase artists for Folk Alliance International 2022, nominated Aotearoa (NZ) Music Awards “Best Folk Artist” 2022, nominated Australian Folk Music Awards "Artists of the Year, Best Duo/Group/Ensemble" 2021 and recipients of the 2020 Troubadour Foundation Award, We Mavericks continue to enthrall audiences far and wide. 

Touring their keenly-awaited debut album “Grief’s a Gardener” they bring connected and grounding originals that can melt even the hardest of hearts.

OCEANIQUE

Winners of the 2022 Folk Alliance Australia ‘Youth Artist of the Year’, Oceanique are a twin sister duo from Western Australia. Their songs are filled with ethereal harmonies and peaceful folk energies, with stories of love, loss and the wonder of time.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH MEN is an exploration of masculinity, vulnerability and the tender connection between men and their childhood selves moderated by writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder CLEMENTINE FORD. CWM invites five men to speak to the boys they used to be about the men they learned to become. In this intimate space and through the generosity of these performers, CWM also invites audience members to reflect on how society informs and shapes masculinity in the minds of some of our littlest humans.

Sunday April 16th at The Brunswick Ballroom will feature:

Scott Edgar: “Scod” is a well-known member of the much-loved Melbourne comedy band “Tripod”. Tripod have been regulars on the international live comedy circuit, radio and television, and have written musicals for the screen and stage.

Scott has gone on to a career in the creative arts which has taken him through theatre, music, comedy, games, radio and television, always coming back to his first love of drawing lizard warriors in the margins of exam papers.

Michael Veitch began his career in the 1980s writing and performing in television comedy with programs such as the D-Generation and Fast Forward before working as a newspaper columnist and regular broadcaster for ABC radio in Melbourne and Tasmania. Between 2005-2010 he presented the national TV arts program on ABC Television, Sunday Arts. 

In addition to numerous television, film and theatre credits, Michael has published eleven books, primarily on the air war of the Second World War. These include Flak, Fly, Heroes of the Skies, and 44 Days – 75 Squadron's defence of Port Moresby, 1942. Michael is also the author of three plays, Flak, Mystery in the Air and Hell Ship which have each toured extensively across Australia. 

Henry Wagons has a unique knack for seizing your attention in a way that can only come from years of performing on hundreds of stages around the world as one of Australia's most gifted musicians, performers and radio/TV hosts. Often described as a “professor of song” and instigator of the Australian movement of Indie-Country music

Julian Thumm has worked in publishing, journalism and corporate comms for the past 15 years. A former bookseller and occasional writer, he spends most of time lost in books. Born and raised in the Barossa Valley, he has called Melbourne home for the past decade. He studied psychology and literature at the Universities of Adelaide and Brisbane. He has spent much of the past 20 years trying to make peace with himself and the chaos around him. 

Philip Thiel is a Melbourne-based educator and podcaster. He has spoken about digital writing at Emerging Writers’ Festival and feminist teaching at Karen Pickering’s Cherchez la Femme. His podcast Across the Aisle covering theatre and the arts in Melbourne and co-hosted by Carla Donnelly was launched in 2015 and has won two Australian Podcast Awards. Philip’s online writing projects include A Year of Stopping and A Year with the Saints. His work (including a sonnet about Chadstone Shopping Centre) has been published at Idiom, The Writer’s Bloc and Cordite Poetry Review. After stints in York, Paris and Adelaide, he lives with his boyfriend and folding bicycle above a theatre in the city.

Following a short intermission, event moderator and creator CLEMENTINE FORD will host a 30 minute conversation with the performers on stage.

This event will be recorded for podcast

WHEN: Sunday April 16th

WHERE: The Brunswick Ballroom

WHAT TIME: Doors from 6pm. Show at 7pm

HOW MUCH: $40 + bf

TICKETS FROM: www.brunswickballroom.com.au