RILEY PEARCE and JACK RAYMOND

Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter Riley Pearce has always held an unselfconscious ability to tell stories that are both deeply personal and effortlessly relatable in a way that has earned him a loyal, deeply tuned-in audience across the over 130 million global streams he's accumulated to date. His signature atmospheric, alt-folk sound is at times raw and gritty, and at other moments determined and uplifting. Riley weaves life's highs and lows together, holding contradiction, while always leaving space for hope. Fresh off touring with US powerhouse Buffalo Traffic Jam on their sold out Australia tour, Riley will be playing his own intimate shows sharing new music and the stories behind his much loved songs.

Jack Raymond

https://jackraymondmusic.com/music

Jack Raymond is an Australian folk, roots and blues songwriter whose music carries the grit of the road, the weight of old stories and the landscape of the Victorian High Country where he grew up. Blending folk storytelling with blues soaked guitar work and a voice built on warmth, restraint and rough edges, Raymond has carved out a sound he calls Mountain Roots: honest songs shaped by people, place and the things we carry with us.

Raised in Harrietville beneath the mountains of north east Victoria, Raymond’s writing has always been closely tied to the Australian landscape. Rivers, small towns, family histories, long drives and the quiet tension between leaving home and belonging to it run through his songs. His work sits somewhere between the intimacy of a late night folk song and the rawness of a blues performance, favouring character, story and atmosphere over polish for its own sake.

That approach has taken Raymond from living rooms and regional halls to stages around Australia, including Woodford Folk Festival, Gympie Music Muster, Wintermoon Festival, Agnes Blues & Roots, Kiama Blues, Tamworth Country Music Festival and a growing network of folk clubs, theatres and independent venues. Along the way he has shared bills with artists including Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows, Kim Churchill, Riley Pearce, Hatz Fitz & Cara, Austin Mackay, Minnie Marks and Darren Hanlon.