Hills Folk Music - Nigel Wearne + Alana Jagt
Event description
*TICKETS ON-SALE MONDAY 22ND AUGUST 9AM*
Hills Folk Music presents:
NIGEL WEARNE + ALANA JAGT
Live at the Uraidla Institute, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Saturday 8th October 2022 - 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Ticket Details:
General Admission - $25 + booking fee
Concession - $20 + booking fee
Young Folk (5-15) - $15 + booking fee. Must be accompanied by an adult
Ticket Link: https://events.humanitix.com/hills-folk-music-nigel-wearne
Covid Safe Venue - Allocated Cabaret Table Seating
Licenced Bar
Performance Details:
Doors - 6:30pm
Alana Jagt - 7:15pm (40min)
Interval
Nigel Wearne - 8:15pm (50min)
Venue Details:
NIGEL WEARNE
Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, folk and Americana-noir. Hailing from Gunditjmara country in South-West Victoria, he’s a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influence from Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Gillian Welch. A deep thinker and truth speaker, with a penchant for all things peculiar. He sings of human frailty, grace and the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone.
Nigel has toured Australia, New Zealand and Canada and he's performed at a long list of music festivals, including the Port Fairy Folk Festival, Adelaide Guitar Festival and Queenscliff Music Festival. His sophomore album, Black Crow garnered wide critical acclaim including a 4-STAR review in Rolling Stone, a nomination for Best Country Album at the Music Victoria Awards and it debuted at #1 on the AMRAP Charts.
His latest single, ‘Black Behind The Blue’ is a rollicking, film-noir shuffle with a back-street New Orleans swagger. An illicit dream of forbidden love; elusive and mysterious; blinding and eternal – lost in the shadows of your subconscious. The new beginnings of a dedicated and shape-shifting artist.
Singer-songwriter, luthier, poet and gleaner; Wearne paints lyrical pictures with “the narrative-fuelled prose of Paul Kelly” – Beat Magazine. “An eruption of energy, rhythm and melody" – Rhythms Magazine.
https://www.facebook.com/nigelwearnemusic
https://www.instagram.com/nigelwearne
Alana Jagt’s dynamic rasp soars over her
blend of stormy folk-rock noir that's
refreshing yet somehow familiar, it’s the
sound of a thousand lonely AM radios one
Sunday afternoon but exactly where and
when is a mystery. Live she performs
powerful, vocal-led solo affairs; playful trio
shows; and with her six piece twin guitar
rock band.
Born and raised on South Australia’s Iron Triangle, Jagt cut her teeth as a teen playing keys and singing harmonies in her parents’ ramshackle blues band. At seventeen she skipped to the capital and established a song-writing outlet as one half of folk-duo Buffalo Boyfriend. But the songs quickly outgrew the folk harmony outlet, and with the 2017 release of her solo debut Wilderness, Jagt steadily built a dedicated audience in her own right–one that has followed her from beloved little Adelaide venues like the Grace Emily to performances at Adelaide Guitar Festival,
and supporting artists the likes of Abbe May (nationally, 2018) Mick Thomas (nationally, 2019), Paul Dempsey and Kasey Chambers.
In early 2019 Alana released her next single 'Imagining Life' and has since enjoyed support slots with acts as diverse as Moju, Thelma Plum, Ella Hooper, Henry Wagons, Paul Dempsey and Archie Roach, as well as performing at acclaimed Australian festivals including Porchland, Dashville Skyline and being selected as a showcasing artist at BIGSOUND.
In 2020/21 Alana has been working on the finishing touches to her debut full length release, due 2022.
https://alanajagt.bandcamp.com/
Acknowledgement of Country:
Our gatherings take place on the lands of the Peramangk & Kaurna people.
We respect their spiritual relationship with their country and acknowledge them as the custodians of this land. Always
Was Always Will Be.
Hills Folk Music
Hills Folk Music organise community friendly folk music events for the Adelaide Hills that celebrate live original music, story-telling and care for our natural environment.
Curated by Uraidla residents Aaron Austin-Glen & Anya Anastasia
Supported by Greenhill Wines & the Uraidla Institute