Music

Honest songs about things that matter.

Electric grit with jazz-school sensibilities create engaging and emotive soundscapes.

A blend of authentic dark folk, post-punk witchery that will leave you spell bound.

Fruit and folk-adjacent three-part harmonies from these local ambient amblers.

Fun Size Duncans like to keep things a little wobbly, but always full of energy and flavour.

Name-checked by Kurt Cobain, the Cannanes are indie personified.

Face-melting riffs from this local psych rock three-piece.

Bedroom producer released into the wild with a bag of slumbering beats and dronal keys.

Bunch of brainrotted dorks who spend just as much time playing the guitar as they do scrolling instagram reels.

Wanting the audience to feel the way they do when writing and performing their music. Which was worryingly born from emotions of despair, sadness, frustration and angst.

Organ, guitar, drums, jazz, blues, funk.

Original jazz based off CMT's experiences overpast years.

Lovers of sad girl indie-pop unite. Eliza wields dreamy synths and guitar to craft heartfelt anthems.

Blood harmonies. Indie-folk with open tuned guitar, clawhammer banjo and harmonica from this pair of irish twin brothers.

Jessie Monk weaves new stories with old threads, inspired by ancient myth and Celtic and Appalachian folk traditions.

After travelling around Australia twice, nearly being stabbed, getting caught in a car fire and falling off a two storey building in Guatemala, Colbey is just happy to be here, sharing music and film and surfing along the way.

Trip-hop shoegaze with hints of Britpop almost visible through synths and washed-out guitar.

Someone said Kevin Shields meets Patti Smith. Someone else said Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Cat Power hanging out on a damp night. Neither's far off.

Take Radiohead's existential dread and marry it to Aphex Twin's digital hallucinations + jazz.

Blazing percussionist Carlos joins various local legends to interpret some of the great Brazilian composers (plus some of his own stuff).

With a background in psychotherapy, fine arts, and audio engineering, Matthew Magnus's creative practice centres on ritualised cycles of mark-making.

Electronic prog-rock

British jazz guitarist and composer, combining modern jazz, fusion, blues, and rock.

Veterans of the international ‘free improvised music’ scene. At Mona they will weild electric mandolin, saxophones and more.

Intricate compositions, adventurous improvisation, and deep musical interplay.

Local four piece outfit busting out rock and pop inspired by the likes of Big Thef and Mazzy Star.

Kiss kiss bang bang. Whimsical, yet playful genre-bending folk tunes.

Grace throws thoughtful, hard-hitting bars (over boom-bap beats) that speak on racism, womanhood, and the power in flaws and difference.

He's been sippin' cassie blues, now he's taking to the Mona lawns. This is Hobart hip hop.

Fluid, party-starting storytelling and poetics. Some light-hearted stuff, some harder-hitting stuff. Thoughts may be provoked.

They were going to be called No More Gaps because they don't have any downtime between songs, but Liquid Nails sounds more punk, for sure. Splintery post-punk.

Self-penned rock & roll and rockabilly.

Will there be dancing in the dark times? Yes, we dance the catastrophe.

Direct from Hobart College, this 4 piece, comprised of local talent, blends melodic ballads and heavy rock. Get that worm.

Soulful and quietly commanding, Elly is a heavily accoladed jazz singer and composer.

Jazz sensibilities blended with groove-heavy rhythms.

Equal parts panic attack and party anthem. The Mean Times aren’t trying to save the world. They’re just here to point out its ridiculousness and make you dance while it burns.

Systemet is a drone act who deploys sound through self-built portable synthesizers, usually in natural environments such as mountaintops and riverbeds, or urban non-places, contextualizing its art in a psychogeographical manner.

Sydney-based DJ compiling their favourite moody film scores into a set under James Turrel's Armana.

Best described as no wave folk or broken punk music.

Sizzling, original groove-driven jazz from a quartet inspired by neo-soul, nu-jazz and psychedelic influences.

Singer, poet, producer and keys player from Narrm making deeply soulful music.

Beetle Miyela creates a sonic world for viewers to reside in, combining ambient textures with ethereal vocals and experimental instrumentation.

Lively beats and jazzed-up soul. Dancing is a given.

Icelandic poet, Svavar, crafts haunting folk music that explores grief, hope and redemption.

A melting pot of like-mined musicians, plumbing the depths of jazz and groove.

Indie-folk songstress that has been captivating audiences across the UK.

Expect ballads, hard swingers, cookin' bebop and the

occasional waltz.

Globe trotting Ty will mesmerize you with her vocal prowess.