2018
BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL
Moreland City Council’s Brunswick Music Festival
returns in March, with Melbourne’s iconic fortnight-long
party program celebrating 30 years of fostering
live music and local talent.
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HERE for the full program |
CHRIS
WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS
RESERVED SEATING: $35 (+b/f) |
A RESERVED SEAT
is highly recommended for this show!
Here's how it works:
1. RESERVED SEAT TICKETS
Purchase your Reserved Seat tickets using The
Spotted Mallard online ticketing system.
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to make your table reservation, and let them know
what time you will arrive, where you would like
to sit, and how many will be sitting at your table.
Table bookings typically range in size from 2 people
right through to 10-12.
Book early for the best seats and the best tables! |
CHRIS
WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS
GENERAL ADMISSION: $30 (+b/f) |
| General Admission ticket
holders cannot reserve their seating or reserve
a table. However, any seating that remains after
all Reserved Seating has been allocated, can be
taken by General Admission ticket holders on a first-come
first-serve basis on the night. |
CHRIS
WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS
MEALS BEFORE
THE SHOW |
| The Spotted Mallard is
a brilliant place to have a meal. Whether you have
a Reserved Seat or General Admission Ticket, you
can order a meal before the show from The Spotted
Mallard dinner menu. |
CHRIS WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS
WITH CHARM OF FINCHES
 Wednesday
March 7, 2018, 8.00pm
The Spotted Mallard, 314 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.
ONLY MELBOURNE SHOW!
Pre-Sale: Reserved Seats $35 (+b/f)
Pre-sale: General Admission $30 (+b/f)
On the night: $35 at the door
Doors and Dinner: 6.00pm - Showtime: 8.00pm
With 22 years of unrivalled musical partnership
gathering numerous nominations, awards and critical acclaim
along the way, English singer/songwriters, Chris While
& Julie Matthews return to their beloved Australia,
which has become their second home. This will be their
thirteenth visit in 20 years. They bring with them their
latest studio album, Shoulder to Shoulder which
has garnered much media attention and rave reviews.
Melbourne-based duo Charm of Finches
will open the show in style with their signature angelic
sibling vocal harmonies and stunning song-writing which
comes complete with lashings of guitar (Mabel) and fiddle
and glockenspiel with some faint strains of banjo (Ivy).
All Roads Lead to The Spotted Mallard.....!
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Chris While (Vocals, Guitar,
Banjo, Dulcimer, Bodhran and Percussion) & Julie
Matthews (Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Mandolin and Bouzouki)
are breathtaking singers, songwriters, musicians and performers
whose energy and commitment to their craft and their audience
is boundless. They have been hailed the best and most
hard working acoustic duo on the folk roots scene.
Though internationally acclaimed, they continue to be
a leading force on the UK's acoustic/roots arts circuit.
Their songs cover life as they see it, from the industrial
waste lands of the north, to injustice and freedom, matters
of the heart and everything in between. Their songs are
covered by many revered singers the world over but it
is While & Matthews' musical partnership and obvious
joy of performing together that really brings their songs
to life. As performers they are unrivalled and their audiences
leave their concerts having been through every emotion
possible.
They have been nominatated eight times in the BBC Radio
2 Folk music awards in the 'Best Song, Best Duo, Best
Live Act' categories.
Chris While and Julie Matthews’ musical
partnership began in 1993 when they were key members
of the legendary folk super-group The Albion Band. In
1997 they left the band to concentrate on their work
as a duo which has seen them tour throughout the world
and gain an ever growing devoted fan-base. Their songs
have been covered by a range of artists including Mary
Black, Barbara Dickson, Christine Collister and Fairport
Convention.
Both multi-instrumentalists, Julie plays guitar, piano,
ukulele, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica and accordion
while Chris plays guitar, bodhran, banjo, dulcimer and
percussion. Their musical careers have produced successful
solo albums and a variety of projects away from the
duo including the Christmas band ‘St Agnes Fountain’
with David Hughes and Fairport Convention’s Chris
Leslie.
Eight studio and two live albums later their partnership
flourishes...
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Charm of Finches are a Melbourne-based
duo featuring teenage sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wormes.
Theirs is music to gaze at stars by and their sound has
been described as chamber folk, their signature angelic
sibling vocal harmonies and stunning song-writing comes
complete with lashings of guitar (Mabel) and fiddle and
glockenspiel with some faint strains of banjo (Ivy).
They are winners of the 2017 National Folk Festival Gill
Rees Young Musicians' Award, and their debut album, Staring
at the Starry Ceiling was named one of the best releases
of 2016 by Radio National.
"For a duo so young to conjure a full album of music
so candid and original as this is astonishing .... Charm
of Finches sound like they're mining something far more
ancient and universal." Rhythms Magazine
"There's also the simple beauty of family voices
intertwining, with Charm Of Finches’ Mabel &
Ivy – and even their names seem perfectly anachronistic
for the folk purity of their music...slightly mystical
alternate reality, maybe owing something to Joanna Newsom
and that ilk. Despite - or perhaps because of - their
youth, the music they make is affecting and emotional.
" The Music
"Charm of Finches make gorgeous chamber pop...their
harmonies are immaculate and stirring as they move through
an honest and, well, charming lyric." Tone Deaf
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CHRIS WHILE and JULIE MATTHEWS
"What is there to say? I long ago exhausted my thesaurus
of superlatives when it comes to reviewing the duo’s
albums, leaving me struggling to find the words to do
them justice." NET RHYTHMS
"Their pedigree is without question. Both are supreme songwriters &
instrumentalist & it’s the union of their two
wonderful voices which is the crowning glory with the
emphasis being on the exquisite two part harmonies."
ROCK SOCIETY
"While & Matthews are dazzlingly good multi-instrumentalists
but it’s their skill as close-harmony singers that
defines their sound. Nie Wieder (Never Again), their
tribute to German-Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann, is
outstanding" DAILY EXPRESS
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THE SPOTTED MALLARD IS THE PLACE TO
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