Music

Tapir are 'a pair of herbivorous ungulates who steer a course between summoning up mirage-like soundscapes from some hidden world, and pitching headlong into the deepest of grooves.'

Energetic, expressive jazz and blues.

Okinawan folk songs for sanshin and vocals.

Maverick songwriter / producer Jethro crafts beguiling, off-kilter recordings moored by pleasing melodies and spools of 24-track instrumentation.

Guitar and vocals that vary from intimate to expansive, coloured with flecks of psychedelic folk, alt-country, and art pop.

Locally based singer-songwriter doing folky soul in the vein of Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder and Nick Hakim.

Proud Yuwaalaraay man (and fifteen year Tassie transplant) Warren—who's the brains / muscle behind Tin Camp Studios—is joined by teacher, healer and musician Donna for some songs and stories.

Aphex meets pop, plus noise. 'Intelligible pop songs that are more primeval than poetic'.

Groove and alt-jazz originals exploring themes of self-discovery, nostalgia, and sometimes bugs.

Coral Sculptures live by the credo of 'Eat. Pray. Shoegaze.' Swirling, ethereal vocals with loping shoegaze pulse and melodic basslines.

Haunting vocal melodies and French spoken word reverberate over electronic pulses and synth passages.

Brooding, experimental quartet blending darkwave, post-punk and industrial rock.

Hypnotic improvised sounds for violin, piano, drums (Bing) and guitar, piano and drums (Santospirito). Noise, improv, jazz.

Lead by Melbourne based drummer Liam O'Leary, LCO Trio will take you through the sights and sounds of some original and standard jazz music with some of Hobart's finest home grown local musicians.

Tenacious, high-energy improvisers fusing hip-hop, post-punk and funk.

Techno-factory: live bass from Graham Meredith, plus keyboards and vocals over prerecorded sounds composed by Comrad Xero themselves.

An improv band with a philosophy of musical risk-taking, who are aiming to reach an alternate sonic universe.

A big, hand-built sound system that'll be pumping out family-friendly day-party jams. Dub, reggae, roots, plus the odd cultural offshoot.

Absurdist rockers straddling the line between post-punk and pub rock. Imagine John Clarke riffing over a slightly warped Minutemen cassette.

lutruwita / Tasmania-based singer-songwriter, sound artist and researcher who spends her time touring, making billypots of beans, drinking tea and capturing field recordings.

Not easily pigeon-holed, but if you were going to, you'd probably say post-punk wrapped in a cloak of alt-folk (from a young woman trying to find her place in the world).

A 'tropical boom experience full of fiery colourfulness and boneshaking rhythms' inspired by—and maintaining—the folkloric rhythms of coastal Colombia.

RnB and jazzy space jams. Might get a bit goth-y (in a good way).

Innovative soundscapes from the bleeding edge of IDM and experimental electronic. A hybrid performance of live stuff and DJ work.

Heartfelt blends of blues, folk and pop, layered with stirring electropop-esque rhythms and moody counter-melodies.

Local artist and composer does slowly evolving, continuous music inspired by Hindustani classical music, the Coltranes and American minimalists.

Captivating, ethereal emotionally charged solo stuff from an accomplished ex-Boorloo / Perth songwriter.

JP leads a jazz-posse with his elite guitar skills.

Old-time mountain tunes and songs for fiddle and banjo.

Instrumental wizardry and vocal harmonies ft. mandolin, fiddle and guitar. Bluegrass, oldtime, swing.

Ex-Queensland punks making music to get your mum pogoing.

Simon's played with Kate Ceberano and was in the the Hey Hey It's Saturday house band. Goes without saying that he's very handy with a guitar.

Trip-hop, shoegaze and hints of Britpop through a dense wash of synth, guitar and beats.

Your 'new-wave pop-rock neighbours in short shorts and sneakers, asking risqué questions over the scraggly fences of nipaluna / Hobart'. Vocal pizazz, synths, plenty of dancing.

Grace Chia—who curated this Saturday afternoon of local hip-hop—brings her inimitable mix of hard-hitting bars, soulful melodies and old-school beats to the lawns, backed by DJ Thensum.

Rapper, producer, composer, DJ from 'a subconscious jungle in Hobart'. Rich, organic, juicy funk.

One of Hobart's hardest-working and highly acclaimed hip-hop artists. Rapper, lyricist, battle-rap legend.

A local institution, is Billy. Blues, jazz, country, soul and Americana. Maybe some funk.

Murder ballads: subwoofer-boosted accordion, twanging gourd banjo licks played on a fretless children's Stratocaster, vintage synths controlled by a violin, and an Argentinian bombo fashioned into a drumkit.

Deep, aching balladry with a country twang.

An energetic, feel-good set of finely crafted songs, freewheeling anecdotes and general good humour.

Anarchic blends of anarchic synths and circuit-bent electronica, morphing from 'nearly musical' to 'downright noise chaos'. Audience participation possible.

A trio of youthful types on bass (and effects), drums and textural percussion, and keyboard / synths. High-energy original comps and modern arrangements of jazz standards.

Three determined, noisy misanthropes channelling the essence of classic UK post-punk (with a Tasmanian twist).

Blurs the lines between minimal synth-pop, immersive ambient and field recording-based sound art.

Psychedelic, cinematic mergings of post-punk and new wave.

The improvisatory talents of FFLORA—an eight-piece collective who’ll never play the same set twice—combine with the hard-hitting bars of RnB poet and rapper Grace Chia to create some fresh bangers. Gritty, intoxicating hip-hop, uplifting harmonies and heavy grooves.

A mum and dad from Moonah who tell it like it is while making you shake your rump.

Funky grooves, originals, soaring melodies. Music to move you.

Local alt-rock three piece.

Virtuousic Celtic-influenced harp, fiddle and vocals from the mountains.

Wailing, cosmic psych-rock from outer space (and northern Tasmania).

A reclusive creative based in nipaluna. They write songs and choral arrangements, and play harp.

Moses is a scholar of cumbia music and sound-system culture, here to spin up a storm of stuff he's collected on tours across the globe.

Humanist, artist, producer, DJ and composer. From India, via London (and shows alongside some of the biggest names in the UK house and rave scenes).

Left-of-centre folk-rock covering death, darkness and general malaise.

Old time mountain music evoking images of log cabins, woodsmoke and maybe some unrequited love.

Two-piece melodic sludge.

Desert guitars, synths and sublime vox perform 'sad songs to make you happy'.

Lo-fi ambient dreams. Deep drone with modular synths.

A hotpot of breakbeat, funk and wobbly bass cooked up by multi-instrumentalist Hayato.

It stands for 'Neika Electronic Workshop'. Decades-gone electronica and a tough of industrial mayhem from an arsenal of new and vintage synths, samplers and drum machines.

Old-time fiddler, banjoist and Cajun accordionist does fiddlin' 'n' singin'; mountain blues and ballads; Cajun two-steps; waltzes and stomps from the swamps.