Nashville based band South For Winter are sharing the stage with Tasmanian based band Where Water Meets for an evening of Folk and Americana music at Le Cafe Picton.
With a blend of dreamy acoustic duets, bluesy murder ballads and foot-stomping Folk, New Zealand-born and Nashville-based South for Winter’s sound is as eclectic as their origins. The band began with a chance meeting between kiwi Nick Stone and Colorado native Dani Cichon in the mountains of Peru, South America; however, it was years before the two were able to bring the project to life in Christchurch NZ. South for Winter later took flight in Nashville TN, where the two songwriters and multi-instrumentalists combined elements such as acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, and suitcase stomp into a genre-bending sound described by American Songwriter as “laden with delicate harmonies, intricate guitar-work and earthy vocals...impeccable sound”.
South for Winter recorded their debut album Luxumbra with GRAMMY award-winning producer Matt Leigh in Nashville TN and successfully crowdfunded its independent release in 2020. The album has been praised by sites such as For the Love of Bands (a wonderful mix of indie and folk rock), Grateful Web (eclectic in the best sense of the word), AmericanaUK (a journey well-worth taking), 13th Floor NZ, Music.Net.NZ, Relix Magazine, and DittyTV. Luxumbra’s release, coupled with the band's head-turning live performance, has landed them accolades such as an Official Artist at SXSW Music Festival in 2023, Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliance International in 2022, DJ Pick in 2021 by New York City's John Platt of WFUV Radio, Official Showcase Artist at Folk Alliances Southwest and Midwest Regional in 2021, “Most Wanted” Emerging Artist at Falcon Ridge Festival in 2019, and rising artist by Nashville's Lightning 100 Radio in 2018.
Between tours nationally and internationally, South for Winter are in the studio in Nashville for their sophomore album, with producer Matt Leigh once again at the project's helm. The first album single, Something in the Stars, is due March 9, 2023.
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Described as an ‘intricate, complex but warm-hug kind of experience’, Where Water Meets are folk duo Emily Sheppard (violin/viola/vocals) and Yyan Ng (guitar/vocals). Touring New Zealand for the first time, they are bringing music from their critically acclaimed first album River Islands, with songs and tunes inspired by the Tasmanian wilderness. They combine alternatively tuned guitars, violins and violas with ethereal vocals to create shimmering, visual worlds both Tasmanian and interstellar.
Where Water Meets are a sought after chamber-folk duo based on the island in the far south of Australia. They have toured extensively around Tasmania and mainland Australia, presented by festivals including the National Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, MONA FOMA and Beaker Street Science Festival. They have been the recipients of multiple rounds of Arts Tasmania and Inspire Australia funding, and with this support have created and presented diverse work that engages with place, community, history and science. Their composition Brown Mountain won the 2019 Folk Federation of Tasmania’s tune writing award.
'Intensely raw, sweet, ethereal. Transcending time and place, connecting the same.'
Jane Hepple
'Re-affirming of one's deeper self, values and place on this 'small blue dot'.'
Steven Grainger
