Mistletone

The Orbweavers are showcasing at AWME 2013 (Australasian World Music Expo) with an intimate show at The Toff. Tickets on sale now.

Marita Dyson and Stuart Flanagan formed The Orbweavers in 2006, drawing on a love of history, natural sciences, museums and archives. They have charmed audiences with evocative songs of creeks & quarries (Merri), greyhounds (You Can Run – Fern’s Theme), volcanoes (Japanese Mountains), textile mills, historic sewerage pumping stations (Spotswood) and the passing of time (The Hook). Dark and dulcet melodies, deft chiming guitar, violin and mournful trumpet meld to hypnotic effect, recalling reverberant ghosts of places past.

Sweet Jean is Sime Nugent and Alice Keath. Their music brings together their darker folk influences with clap-your-hands, old-school pop sensibilities. Since forming in late 2010, Sweet Jean has built a reputation for their evocative songwriting, razor-sharp harmonies, and stirring live performances as a duo and with their band. As the AU Review put it, Sweet Jean “can break your heart one minute and mend it the next. The duo has a natural ability to transport their audience to the heart of their songs.”

A young artist from Reunion Island, Maya Kamaty composes and performs folk music – a tender mixture between maloya and French songs carried by a melodious voice. Born on Reunion Island, Maya comes from a family of artists, musicians and storytellers bringing tales from Africa, India and the islands of the Indian Ocean.