Festivals are back: Mona Foma gets underway with a huge night of live music Luca Brasi
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We went along to the first night of Mona Foma and this is what went down.
The first major cultural event for the year, and indeed for quite awhile, Tasmania’s Mona Foma has been willfully reigniting live arts and music throughout January. In 2021, the festival sprawls both Launceston and Hobart, across two weekends, bringing Violent Femmes’ bassist and festival director Brian Ritchie’s next ingenuities to the fore.
On Friday January 15, Mona Foma commenced with
Mofo Sessions – the first of three concerts that took place on Launceston’s beautiful River Tamar. A delightfully-satirical and more-than-a-little-naughty performance by the