ELLA HOOPER with special guest MELODY POOL

Ella Hooper is hitting the road with a sharp, heartfelt edge to her ever-evolving take on Americana. Ella’s gift for storytelling and humour shines as she fronts a dynamic band, laced with fiddle, guitar, warm group harmonies and more than a little grit.

Playing some favourites from Small Town Temple — the album that debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Country chart — Ella will also be sharing a sneak peek of new music recorded in Nashville in 2025.

There are bar room stompers, spectral ballads with a contemporary edge, and hooks sharp enough to draw blood.

"Call it Americana, call it alt-country, call it what you like. Hooper puts it this way: “Can you really ‘go country’ if you’re from the country in the first place?”

With special guest Melody Pool
Melody Pool arrived on the Australian music scene with 2013’s The Hurting Scene, which The Australian declared Album of the Year, with the late-great music critic Iain Shedden calling it “one of the most accomplished debuts by an Australian singer-songwriter for many years”. 

Rolling Stone hailed her voice as “sublime”, while The Herald Sun’s Cameron Adams described Melody’s music as “beautiful and passionate but not dumbed-down for easy digestion”.