NEWS:
UK TOUR JUST ANNOUNCED! See Upcoming Shows for details
“ALL THIS NOISE” Single OUT NOW
EU TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON…
UPCOMING
SHOWS:
Nethercote Hall
22nd june - 3pm
Book your seat by contacting Ray Gardaya: 0477455695
BYO. Food available during break. See the event listing HERE
Cobargo Showground
23rd June - 3pm
YFC members discount. Light refreshments available during break.
Book tickets via humanitix HERE
UK TOUR
1 Sept - Southport
Bothy Folk Club
2 Sept - London
The Green Note
3 Sept - Dartford
Dartford Folk Club
4 Sept - Spalding
Spalding Folk Club
5 Sept - Egham
Runnymede Folk Club
7 Sept - Beccles
Hungate Church
10 Sept - St Neots
St Neots Folk Club
11 Sept - Nottingham
Carrington Triangle Folk Club
12 Sept - Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove Folk Club
19 Sept - Stanley, Durham
The White Room
23 Sept - Stirling
Stirling Folk Club
26 Sept - Biggar
Clydesdale Folk Club
2 Oct - Kirkham, Preston
The Willows Folk Club
4 Oct - Harthill, Sheffield
The Beehive Folk Club
+ More dates to be announced
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About
We mavericks
Musical twins and mavericks besides, they’re folk that resembles everything else: Bringing challenging originals, entertaining stories and incredible energy, this new duo packs emotional punches but have songs to heal the scars.
Lindsay Martin’s masterful strings and vocal meets songstress Victoria Vigenser’s magnificent voice and driving rhythms in a connection that is hard to describe. Originally from the NSW Riverina and NZ respectively, they're travelling troubadours with uniquely gritty, evocative songs and echoes of their love for Americana and Celtic traditional music amongst the harmonies.
Coming together for just a handful of performances in 2018, audiences gave the duo no choice but to continue. Their original collaboration has been making a bold mark on both sides of the Tasman after only a few years performing - a steep and fast rise to Australasian festivals and shows has seen the duo selected as a showcase artist for Folk Alliance International, twice nominated “Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa | Best Folk Artist” in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Music Awards, twice nominated “Best Contemporary Duo/Group/Ensemble” in the Australian Folk Music Awards and recipients of Australia’s Troubadour Foundation Award.
“… the glorious harmonies and touching melodies of We Mavericks…Together they craft exquisite folk music, evoking spirits originating from Appalachia to Alba”
- Ambient Light, New Zealand
Read the full review here
“He has a familiar soft folk tenor. She has a strong ringing tone with muscle behind a clear crystalline voice… The violin cries for her and the harmony vocals are divine… We Mavericks are a serendipitous pairing…”
- 13th Floor, New Zealand
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Lindsay Martin
Hailing from the Riverina of NSW, Lindsay Martin is best known for his particularly sensitive and unique violin accompaniment and work as a recording engineer/producer. Though classically trained from the age of seven, he has developed an uncanny ability to make his instruments sing in any genre. As an acclaimed career musician since his teens, he has many strings to his bow and many projects to his name: He’s also a multi-instrumentalist, former closet vocalist, trout hunter, unintentional hair model and medieval archer. Though recognised widely as an excellent instrumentalist, his songwriting/arrangement and vocal ability never had an outlet until We Mavericks was born. When he’s not playing, you’re most likely to find him at home making bread, mixing tracks or concocting something delicious over a fire.
Victoria Vigenser
Born in Auckland NZ and raised on the water, Victoria Vigenser started with a childhood affinity for opera, but found rural folk festivals in her teens and never looked back. Celebrated for a seemingly effortless lyrical dexterity and foot-stomping sense of rhythm, she performs with a conviction that tugs at heartstrings. Though a 21st-century wordsmith. she has a deep love for traditional song from many cultures, rooted in her childhood kapahaka (Maori) and later introduction to Celtic traditional song. It wasn’t until her collaboration with Lindsay that she threw off the cables and dirt of her beloved backstage world and truly stepped up to the mic. Having relocated to Australia to follow her muse, she’s now most often spotted wandering around with a fishing rod in the NSW sun, singing strange things, without any shoes on.
Festival highlights date order
2024 Illawarra Folk Festival, NSW
2023 Bundanoon Folk Festival, NSW
2023 Maleny Music Festival, QLD
2023 Tablelands Folk Festival, Yungaburra, FNQ
2023 Nanga Music Festival, Dwellingup, WA
2023 Folk By The Sea Festival, Kiama, NSW
2023 Irish and Celtic Music Festival, Yass, NSW
2023 Sydney Folk Festival, NSW
2023 Clarence Valley Camp Oven Festival
2023 National Folk Festival, Canberra, ACT
2023 Highlands Fest, Bong Bong, NSW
2023 Auckland Folk Festival, Auckland, NZ
2023 Newstead LIVE Music Festival, Newstead, VIC
2023 Cygnet Folk Festival, Cygnet, TAS
2022 Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival, Dorrigo, NSW
2022 Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, Illawarra, NSW
2022 Sydney Folk Festival, Sydney, NSW
2022 Palm Creek Folk Festival, Townsville, QLD
2022 Cobargo Folk Festival, Cobargo, NSW
2022 Tilba Festival, Tilba Tilba, NSW
2022 Riverside Vibes Festival, Albury, NSW
2022 Burke & Wills Music Festival, Mia Mia, VIC
2021 Burke & Wills Music Festival, Mia Mia, VIC
2020 Newstead Live Festival, Newstead VIC
2019 Wellington Folk Festival, NZ
2019 Folk By The Sea Festival, Kiama, NSW
2019 Maleny Music Festival , Maleny, QLD
2019 The Spiegeltent, Wollongong, NSW
2018 Major’s Creek Music Festival, NSW
2018 Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, Illawarra, NSW
2018 Nanga Music Festival, Perth, WA
