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Special Event: Festival Opening Concert 2025

Date: Friday 3 October 2025

Venue: Palmwoods Memorial Hall, 1 Main Street, Palmwoods, Hinterland, Sunshine Coast.

Artists:

Veronique Serret (rock electric violin and singer/songwriter)
Mary Rapp (bass)
Richard Daniell (drums and percussion)
Special Guest, William Barton (voice, didgeridoo and guitar)
Layla Havana, support act (voice and guitar, emerging singer songwriter based on the Sunshine Coast)

About: Migrating Bird invites you to step into the natural world through the music of Véronique Serret, one of Australia’s most celebrated experimental and classically trained violinists. Migrating Bird is an intimate journey inspired by Australian landscapes, where contemporary and classical music meet, and where Véronique uses her voice and violin to sing songs as offerings to nature on her ARIA-nominated album.

Conceived during the pandemic on a property in Brookfield and in the forests of Mount Coot-tha, Queensland, Migrating Bird reflects months of walking, listening, and learning from the natural world. Mother Nature became her teacher, and now, through music, she invites you to do the same.

Join Véronique, her band, and special guest William Barton (yidaki/didgeridoo, voice and guitar) for an evening of hauntingly beautiful, contemplative music. This festival performance offers a deeply personal and immersive experience.

We invite you to listen deeply, and let Migrating Bird guide you through reflection, connection, and communion with the natural world.

“Evocative and raw, gypsy spirit, yet oblique. Véronique is one of the nation's greatest gifts” - Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil)

“Véronique Serret’s Migrating Bird is a beautiful, elusive and Joyful album.. I can’t think of anything else like it” - Nico Muhly

“Rapp had an instinct for being taciturn and pithy; for making the music gossamer light or adding phenomenal weight and vigour, using extraordinarily few notes” - Sydney Morning Herald

Event Schedule:

7:30 PM Opening Festival Concert: Migrating Bird at Palmwoods Memorial Hall
- Featuring Véronique Serret (rock experimental violin & voice) with band, fresh from Brisbane Festival
- Special guest: William Barton (didgeridoo & guitar)
- Support act: Layla Havana, emerging Sunshine Coast First Nations singer-songwriter
- Artist Meet & Greet album signing is after the concert

This project is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Queensland Arts Showcase Program, and the Regional Arts Development Fund, a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council supporting local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

This project is supported by the generosity of individual donors who supported our BOOST donor campaign matched by the Australian Government through the Australian Cultural Fund. Our fundraising partners are Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation and the Australian Cultural Fund.

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