Fri 14th Oct 8:30pm
Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, folk and Americana-noir. Hailing from Gunditjmara country in South-West Victoria, he’s a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influence from Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Gillian Welch. A deep thinker and truth speaker, with a penchant for all things peculiar. He sings of human frailty, grace and the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone.
Nigel has toured Australia, New Zealand and Canada and he's performed at a long list of music festivals, including the Port Fairy Folk Festival, Adelaide Guitar Festival and Queenscliff Music Festival. His sophomore album, Black Crow garnered wide critical acclaim including a 4-STAR review in Rolling Stone, a nomination for Best Country Album at the Music Victoria Awards and it debuted at #1 on the AMRAP Charts.
His latest single, ‘Black Behind The Blue’ is a rollicking, film-noir shuffle with a back-street New Orleans swagger. An illicit dream of forbidden love; elusive and mysterious; blinding and eternal – lost in the shadows of your subconscious. The new beginnings of a dedicated and shape-shifting artist. This show features an all-star band including Danny McKenna on drums and Isaac Gunnoo on double bass.
Singer-songwriter, luthier, poet and gleaner; Wearne paints lyrical pictures with “the narrative-fuelled prose of Paul Kelly” – Beat Magazine. “An eruption of energy, rhythm and melody" – Rhythms Magazine.
MUSIC LINKS
https://www.nigelwearne.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QF4SdRTjsM
https://www.facebook.com/nigelwearnemusic
https://www.instagram.com/nigelwearne
TICKETS https://events.humanitix.com/nigel-wearne-major-tom-s