This event is part of the 2021 RISING Festival. RISING is a surge of art, music, performance and ceremony in the heart of Melbourne… In other words, it’s a new festival in Victoria’s cultural calendar. RISING will begin on the evening of the total lunar eclipse 26 May and run until 6 June 2021. In […]
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Nine unmissable gigs to catch at RISING festival Julia Jacklin (image by Nick Mckk) and Gregor (image by Matthew Shaw)
Words By Tammy Walters
Melbourne will be brought to life with many musical treats come late May.
RISING festival is Melbourne’s total eclipse of the art, boasting a mammoth program for its inaugural instalment.
With music, performance, public art, hospitality wonders and more, the major cultural event has been created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators, and works in conjunction with the total lunar eclipse, to resynchronise and reenergise the city.
Kicking off Wednesday May 26 and running until Sunday June 6, RISING will be non-stop from go to woe, electrifying the city with a long list of events. To assist in organising your busy program schedule, here are nine unmissable music gigs to see at RISING’s debut.
Another guest live in the studio! This week it’s Melbourne artist Sweet Whirl, aka Esther Edquist, chatting about her wonderful 2020 album,
How Much Works, and her upcoming gig at Meadow music festival in the Otway region of Victoria. Esther plays a couple of tracks by artists she loves, and there are also great songs by Liz Stringer, Katie Brianna and Fanny Lumsden. Here is the playlist:
First Time Really Feeling – Liz Stringer
Making Believe – Katie Brianna
If it s a good song, Sweet Whirl can dance real fine to it. Previously a player in Melbourne duo Superstar and the beloved outfit Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Esther Edquist proves, with her solo project, that she is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter at the top of her game.
Sweet Whirl emerged in 2019 with a string of hotly watched releases, before dropping How Much Works, her debut album. Released through the thoughtful indie stalwarts at Chapter Music, it s a record that confidently carved out a space where beauty triumphs over bleakness and the personal becomes universal.
Tender but never precious, the songs on How Much Works are the love-addled confessions of a seasoned party girl, covering intimate emotional terrain and nodding to the influence of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jean-Paul Sartre and Sheryl Crow.