Song Lounge 2015 Launch with very special guests: The Once

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North Street Music presents ‘Song Lounge’ – Western Australia’s longest running singer songwriter showcase. Song Lounge brings together the cream of Perth artists to the stage to share stories and songs in a wonderfully intimate setting.

This unique evening ensures the intimacy and honesty of the singers shines through, and makes for an evening of memories and magic. Come and experience the perfect date night – with a partner or friend – they’ll love you for it. The program for 2015 will be launched at The Ellington in spectacular style with the amazingly talented Canadian trio ‘The Once’ alongside Perth’s great fun The Little Lord Street Band and Telstra Road to Discovery winner Helen Shanahan.

 

THE ONCE LRThe Once Acoustic guitar / vocals / mandolin

Over the past five years, the Once has been quietly making a name for themselves in their native Canada. The Newfoundland-based band has collected a trio of Canadian Folk Music Awards, been named Newfoundland & Labrador Art Council’s Artist of the Year and earned a Juno nomination for best Roots/Traditional album. In the coming year, however, the rest of the world will get to discover the joyous, harmony-rich acoustic music that have made them such favorites in their homeland.

This summer, the trio (Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale and Phil Churchill) released Departures – their first album on Nettwerk Records – as well as embarked on a world tour opening for Passenger, beginning in America, before heading to Europe and then Australia and Asia.

Long-time fans of the Once will notice an increase of the band’s songwriting credits on Departures. While the trio has ventured into new artistic territory, The Once remains rooted in its essential musical elements – Hollett’s incandescent voice, the trio’s gorgeous harmonies and the spirited acoustic instrumentation supplied by Dale and Churchill. Departures represents the Once’s most honest and personal effort to date.

 

Little Lorde Street BandThe Little Lord Street Band Vocals/guitar

With a sold out Single launch at North Street Music’s Song Lounge, to supporting Live’s Ed Kowalczyk and The Whitlams at The Quarry Amphitheatre in 2014, The Little Lord Street Band aren’t slowing down anytime soon. Selected to play at the 2014’s Beaufort Street Festival with 160 000 people in attendance has given this folk dating duo significant exposure. The dynamic duo of Natasha Shanks and James Rogers (Patient Little Sister and Harlequin League) are excited to perform at the launch of Song Lounge 2015 just weeks before they launch their debut EP at The Astor Theatre and play Nannup Festival.

 

Little Bird vocals/guitar
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Little Bird is an acoustic/looping duo hailing from the sunny West coast of Australia. This unique duo has been leaving audiences all around Australia asking questions and wondering how they do it. Their Secret is the ‘Boss Loop Station’ an effect pedal that allows the two musicians to record and layer live loops creating a sound unmatched by any other duo. Rachel O’Hara (vocals) and Matt Williams (guitar) first met at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and have been gigging across the country for the past 3 years. With the recent release of their self titled E.P featuring their debut single ‘Until Tomorrow’ and an International tour on the horizon big things await this up and coming duo.

 

Helen Shanahan Vocals/guitarsHelen Shanahan LR

Helen Shanahan is a 25-year-old singer/songwriter from Perth, Western Australia. Helen’s songs ride the joys and sorrows of love and life and draw the listener into an articulate and heartfelt world of story, melody and guitar, through her eyes. Helen’s thoughtful observations and introverted reflections of everyday situations are beautifully captured in her music, which can best be described as contemporary folk/pop with a strong acoustic feel. Helen won the 2013 Telstra Road to Discovery Songwriter of the Year and has toured Nationally, been invited to perform at Canadian Music Week and at Festivals across Australia, and has an album in the pipeline.