Grand(e) Chain House Concert w/James Monahan

Grand(e) Chain are celebrating the end of their first year as a band — with a house concert!

Head on over to Boronia and join us for a cosy evening of high-voltage tunes, and call-and-response songs in French, plus a little Prince Edward Island square dancing on the side. Soup and domestic charm guaranteed.

Look, come for all of that, but stay for the DEBUT SOLO SUPPORT SET of the wonderful and already-iconic fiddler James Monahan! Can’t even.

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James is a young fiddle player and composer from Melbourne. Classically trained, he has been a member of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra since 2025, and with tutelage from his violin teacher Sarah Curro (MSO) he has recently performed his AmusA diploma exam. James discovered the folk scene through Stringmania folk camp and the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, which he joined when he was 15. He loves playing music from folk traditions from all over the world but especially from eastern Canada, where he toured with the MSFC IN 2025. Since the age of fourteen James has been composing folk tunes, one of which was premiered at the National Celtic Festival by MSFC in 2026 and recorded on their eighth studio album. When he’s not playing the fiddle, banjo or guitar, James’s nerdy hobbies of choice are Magic the Gathering and other board games with altogether too long rulebooks.

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Grand(e) Chain is a Melbourne-based band performing French Canadian songs and tunes, born from the scheming gold of quebecois overlord Pria Schwall-Kearny. Jess Foot, Tess Hickey and Luisa Hickey are honestly just happy to be on the train. From the humble origins of fortnightly sessions at Proserpina Bakery in the Dandenongs, the group have performed this year at the National Celtic Festival and Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass festival, and are still in withdrawal having just run their third annual Quebecois tunes camp, Priafest! Grand Chain brings to the stage an infectious passion for the music and songs of Quebec, Acadia and the Maritimes, and their astonishing groove will have you out of your seat and dancing.

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