Summer Harp Concert featuring Chloe Matharu (SCO), Andrea Kirwin & Claire Evelynn and Louise Bell
Schedule
Sat, 04 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm
UTC+11:00Location
The Venue, 40 Station st, Bowral, NSW | Bowral, NS
Coming to 'The Venue' in Bowral on Saturday 4th January is a triple bill featuring Scottish Harpist Chloe Matharu, Australian/Fijian singer-songwriter Andrea Kirwin & Claire Evelynn supported by local Harpist Louise Bell. Both touring acts will be travelling from shows at Woodford Folk Festival through to Cygnet Folk Festival and this will be a fantastic opportunity to enjoy them in concert in an intimate setting with only 70 tickets available. Tickets are $35 + booking fee with a $25 + bf concession and $15 + bf youth ticket (13 - 17). Doors will open at 6.30pm for 7pm show start and you are welcome to BYO dinner and drinks. Read below to discover more about the performing artists;CHLOE MATHARU (Scotland)
Chloe Matharu is a multi Award winning Scottish Indian singer songwriter and harpist from the West Coast of Scotland. Many of her songs draw on her time as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy, inspired by the natural world as experienced at sea. On tour she performs solo with her harp in Scots and English. Her music offers "anintriguing insight into a new tradition of maritime folk music with thoughtful song writing embellished by her voice and superb harp playing" -The Herald. An internationally touring artist, performances have included Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne Celtic Festival. In 2022 she received Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year for her debut album, Small Voyages, and was selected for the WOMEX awarded Global Music Match. 2023 saw her awarded a Danny at Celtic Connections; a Live Music Award at Greenock Telegraph Community Awards; and nominations for the Wales Folk Awards; Scots Singer of theYear in MG Alba Trad Awards; and was one of five finalists in the Canadian Goderich Emerging Artist Showcase. Press highlights include playing live on BBC Radio Four Woman’s Hour, BBC Scotland TV News,and interviews on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Afternoon Show and ABC Melbourne.
Andrea Kirwin & Claire Evelynn (Aus/Fiji)
Australian/Fijian singer-songwriter Andrea Kirwin and her wife Claire Evelynn have been travelling and performing at Festivals together since they met in 2008 as part of Andrea's first original band 'The Andi and George Band'. However, their duo show with Claire performing on Celtic Harp began with a Woodford Folk Festival Small Halls tour in 2021 and has continued to develop into one of the most unique musical experiences now touring the Folk Festival circuit in Australia and New Zealand. The combination of Celtic Harp along with Andrea's soulful heartfelt original songs which she performs on vocals, guitar, harmonica, cigar box guitar and stomp has been described by many as a spell binding combination. Since their inaugural tour across 20 small halls in QLD in 2021, the musical couple have performed up and down the East coast of Australia including Maleny Music Festival, Neurum Creek Festival, The Gas, Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival and Bay of Islands Jazz and Blues Festival in New Zealand.
Andrea's original songs are beautifully woven together across a combination of folk/soul and jazz influences and based about her real life experiences including stories from her multicultural upbringing in Townsville as well as the many love songs she has written for Claire over their 16 year relationship. It is not often that the artist and muse perform together on stage and the result is simply divine. Claire's delicate harp playing dances around Andrea's rhythm guitar and together they create a harmony and ambience that transports listeners to a place where music is truly a balm for the soul. They are on tour across Australia in 2025 and performing at Cygnet Folk Festival, Illawara Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival and Blue Mountains Music Festival, don't miss the chance to hear and see them live!
Louise Bell
Louise Bell is a musician, composer, performer, harp therapist, educator and recording artist currently residing in the Southern Highlands of NSW. With instrumentals ~ from mellow to vibrant ~ and songs of peace and social justice, she plays her beautiful lever harp Celeste, enhanced with heartfelt vocals and is a regular performer at local Festivals and Community events. Louise also plays piano and various percussion instruments and performs Solo, and as one of six women making up the delightful band Rapunzel's Party. Louise will be opening the concert with a half hour set of originals.
Where is it happening?
The Venue, 40 Station st, Bowral, NSW, Australia
