PACKWOOD (ALBUM LAUNCH) + THE MAPLE TRAIL + GRETTA RAY
7.30PM: DOORS
8.00PM: GRETTA RAY
8.40PM: THE MAPLE TRAIL
9.15PM: PACKWOOD
Packwood creates a window through to the most magnificent parts of ourselves. Performing under his middle name, folk musician Bayden Hine crafts stories that are at once intimate and as expansive as our place in the universe. Songs about our senses, our love, our world are awakened with sweeping orchestral and choral arrangements, cinematic and clear. Packwood’s work is a poetical exploration that began in a rural Australian childhood – and arrives with an open and unnerving question: where are we headed?
Vertumnus is an epic four-part exploration of our planet’s seasons. Written over the course of a meditative year spent in tiny shacks along Australia’s coast, an apartment in the inner city of Melbourne, and amongst the Redwood forests of California – Packwood has sculpted emblems of the challenges and relief of each natural quarter. Each season presents it’s own character, and each song within it a unique voice. Bayden’s expressive vocals and guitar pickings are accompanied at times by a full chamber orchestra and choir, and at times ring out solitary and exposed. Rich with love, fear and wonder; Vertumnus is a reflection on our relationship with each other and with our planet.
The Maple Trail is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Aidan Roberts (Belles Will Ring, Lanie Lane, Tubular Bells For Two). Having spent time writing in Europe and Britain in 2013 and 2014, Roberts has gathered a new collection of songs to follow 2012′s acclaimed album ‘Cable Mount Warning’. Now recording his fourth album for Broken Stone Records, Roberts’ new music travels from his roots in traditional English and Scottish folk, skewed Americana and resting in his own distinct vocal and guitar storyscapes. These are the latest tales of winter and summer, light and dark, love and loss, tigers and Tasmania.
Gretta Ray is first and foremost a storyteller. At only age 16, her songwriting has a way of tackling themes with the sophistication you would expect from a much older soul. With haunting vocals, pure, yet powerful enough to leave any listener with appreciative chills, Gretta weaves together personal tales with a confidence that belies her young age.
