Emily Barker is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter. Shefoundearly success as the writer andperformer of the theme to the hugely successful BBC/PBS Masterpiece crime dramaWallanderstarringKenneth Branagh and has since gone onto forge an acclaimed catalogue of releases, leading TheGuardian to say “Emily Barker has a gift for great melodies”. Barker’snew album,Fragile as Humans, was produced at storied English studio The Wool Hall by Luke Potashnick (Gabrielle Aplin, Jack Savoretti, Alberta Cross). It's her first album for nearly four years, followingA Dark Murmuration of Words, which Uncut called“...a kind of Australian equivalent of PJHarvey’s Let England Shake”and which NPR’s Ann Powers acclaimed as“One of the most literate and probing folk albums of the year.”
Over more than a decade Lachlan Bryan has built a reputation as a master storyteller, regardless of whether he's performing solo, fronting his band The Wildes or collaborating with Country Music Icon Catherine Britt in The Pleasures. . His songs range from hard hitting social commentary to deeply personal musings, but each contains a unique turn of phrase, dark humour and an ever-present sense of romance. Lachlan has toured with icons such as Justin Townes Earle, John Hiatt and Shawn Colvin, as well as headlining his own tours and performing at festivals all over the world. He's released five full length albums with The Wildes, all of which have received critical acclaim, featured in Yearly Top Ten lists and in some cases even charted strongly in the ARIA Official Australian Albums charts.