Meghan Maike & The Cactus Flowers at The Lomond Hotel.

"With the buzz of their announcement at Port Fairy Folk Festival 2025 still fresh, Meghan Maike & The Cactus Flowers are excited to celebrate with a special soiree at the Lomond Hotel on Friday, 25 October. Come to the Lowie to see this Canadian-Australian singer-songwriter and her full band play 2 sets of original songs with a little skip in their two-step!"

In true country tradition, this Canadian singer-songwriter has found inspiration on the road - from Montreal to Mississippi, and now Melbourne.

Born into folk and tuned to country, Maike’s influences (from the greats; Emmylou, Gram, Lucinda, to indie heroes; The Sadies, Black Heart Procession), spurred her to process the world through songwriting. Sights, sounds, places, experiences, textures, and seasons, find their way to the page, and to the stage.

From childhood years in a folk community on Canada’s west coast, Maike was drawn to the buzzing music scene of Montreal - a move meant for a year that lasted a decade, and made a home for life…until the next calling, and it was no mistake that Maike then landed in the vibrant musical tapestry that is Melbourne.

Circumstances brought Maike to live in Clarksdale, Mississippi, for seven years. With some time on her hands, and absorbing the magnetic musical energy of the delta, she kept on writing. This album is a faithful representation of time and place, and the relationship with the delta is ongoing.

Settled back into Melbourne, she’s assembled a stellar band of musicians to lend the songs new light and grow into the sounds that arise.

Host or Publisher The Lomond Hotel