Three of the folk world’s foremost new female singer-songwriters kick off Sydney Festival with a night of sublime, homespun music.Headliner Alela Diane makes her Australian debut for this exclusive show, bringing captivating songs of heartbreak and redemption to Sydney for one night only.Accompanied only by the delicate sounds of her acoustic guitar, Diane fills the space with her rich, stirring voice, described by Pitchfork as “nimble and graceful like a jazz singer, sad and knowing like a blues crooner, but always restrained like a bedroom-pop auteur”. Diane’s latest album, About Farewell, is a gorgeous, stripped-down collection of cathartic break-up songs, that when performed live, lend the feeling of whispered secrets told around the campfire.With opening sets by Olivia Chaney and Jessica Pratt.
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Alela Diane Menig (born April 20, 1983, Nevada City, California, USA) is an American singer and songwriter. She grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the school choir.
Jessica Pratt is a supremely talented San Francisco-based singer and musician, self-described as "sexpervertin....born in a cave." Pratt's music is intricate, intimate, and contemporary yet seems
A gifted virtuoso, this young folk singer will conjure dark-eyed sailors, damsels in distress and rakish Knights from an Indian harmonium and steel-string guitar.