Warm Mids Afternoon - Willebrant, Clariloops + Meredith Beardmore, My Lovely Haunting

Winter is quietly creeping into Naarm/Melbourne. The days are growing shorter, the air is crisp and the city is pulling on its cosiest jumper.

Come and spend the afternoon in the magnificent Oratory at Abbotsford Convent, at this little festival celebrating beautiful, dreamy music.

Warm Mids Afternoon is a chance to experience music in a way that feels more like a waking dream than a night out. This isn't your standard gig. No stiff-backed seats, no standing awkwardly with a drink in your hand. We want you to sink in, spread out, and get truly horizontal if the mood takes you. Bring cushions, blankets, pillows, a book or a craft project. Build yourself a little nest and let the music carry you somewhere soft and far away.

Doors 2pm, Music from 2:30pm

The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent

Tickets $28 + booking fee, a small allocation of sliding scale tickets also available for those in need.

Kids under 4 are free - As it’s a relaxing event, parents are asked to keep other attendees in mind. Luckily the Convent has so many lovely spaces to explore if littler people need to get out and move their bodies!

Introducing the artists behind the soundtrack to your afternoon:

Willebrant

Willebrant is the ambient field-drone project of Naarm/Melbourne–based bassist and producer Karl Willebrant. Working with bass guitar, found instruments, synthesisers, and field recordings, Willebrant creates immersive textures and emotive expanses that invite the listener to form vivid visual narratives through sound.

In 2020, Willebrant retreated to the home studio to fully explore his long-standing relationship with ambient music, resulting in a prolific body of releases and collaborations with artists from Europe, the United States, India, and Australia with local artists such as Black Light Ghost, IKSRE, jazz trumpeter Paul Williamson, James Hullick's Bolt Ensemble and contemporary/classical guitarist Ken Murray.

Clariloops + Meredith Beardmore

Clariloops is the project of Ruby Ester Mae through which she weaves clarinet melodies into layered electronic atmospheres. Drawing on a foundation in classical music and a deep passion for ambient electronica, Ruby uses clarinet, effects pedals, and synthesisers to create meditative sonic journeys that invite deep listening and introspection. With five solo releases and collaborations alongside IKSRE, Six Missing, and Garreth Brooke, Clariloops continues to explore compositions that are tranquil yet dynamic, balancing improvisation with careful structure.

Meredith Beardmore is a flute player who inhabits many genres, from baroque, folk, and improvised music. She plays exclusively on wooden, simple system flutes, finding the nuance, immediacy, and tactile nature of these flutes much more alluring. Meredith enjoys pushing this old instrument in new directions and combines it with field recordings & samples, improvisation and various sound manipulations. Her debut album, Scribbly Gums, was released in 2024 through Paris-based free music label Nunc and has been described as 'hypnotic' and 'meditative'. Her second album, The Long Blue Horizon, is due for release in mid-2026.

My Lovely Haunting

My Lovely Haunting a local Melbourne duo who blends reverb-drenched vocals, cinematic soundscapes and haunting folk melodies into a genre they call “Bladerunner Folk.” Their music is raw yet immersive, evoking neon-lit rain, forgotten VHS tapes, and secret performances hidden in the shadows of old city streets.

Fusing folk, ambient and electronic elements, their sound carries a deep emotional undercurrent shaped by two distinct creative worlds: Alex’s film background and Lucy’s delicate, introspective songwriting, shaped through her neoclassical work as Luminem.

My Lovely Haunting began as a simple folk project but transformed when a single reverb pedal was introduced to an acoustic guitar. From that moment, space itself became an instrument – an element of sound that could expand, distort and transport the listener.

Their debut album Forgotten Moon came out at the end of 2025.