Join us for the perfect Sunday morning outing with free live music as part of the inaugural AACTA Festival next month! We’ve teamed up with AACTA to bring you back-to-back sets from Alisha Todd, Kent Dustin and Sunny Luwe on Sunday 11 February from 7-10am live on the Outdoor Stage.
Round up the whole family, grab your morning coffee from the much-loved HOTA Markets then park up on the hill and enjoy some blissful tunes from local artists.
Featuring:
Alisha Todd: 7am-7.45am
Alisha Todd prefers the slow burn while she builds her reputation as a multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter whose passion lies in encasing emotional nuggets of wisdom inside intricately woven landscapes of sound, blending the boundaries of genres throughout her catalogue in the pursuit of ‘raw and real’.
Her evolving Indie Folk sound dances with the best parts of a 90’s pop song, a real dedication to the craft of story telling in this rapid-fire modern world.
Kent Dustin: 8-8.45am
The deepest moments of connection; of dopamine; of what it means to be human is so often passed over in the day to day. Kent Dustin explores this in his music, creating his indie-folk soundscapes to encourage others to see the beauty in the mundane, to choose optimism and to build a life rich in the ‘little moments’.
The Kent Dustin project is inspired by a variety of artists across genres including Luke Combs, The Teskey Brothers, Justin Timberlake, Running Touch and Mansionare whose skilled production and profound lyricism paints sonic tapestries that are uplifting, earnest and deeply-rooted in universal storytelling.
Produced by Robby De Sa and Nick Zaharias, and written / developed and performed by Kent Tonscheck (soloist, singer-songwriter, guitar, drum pad, looping), the Kent Dustin project is taking on 2023 with a string of releases including a duet titled I’d Miss You More with fellow musician Tesh Batkins on Friday 23rd June 2023. All singles will lead to a forthcoming EP with a raw-acoustic atmosphere, highlighting Kent Dustin’s skills as a poet and further emphasisng the importance of narrative – of the moments – throughout his work.
Sunny Luwe: 9-9.45am (Band)
Fun and playful! After enjoying a Sunny Luwe set you will believe that magic is real. This talented pop soul artist stuns with her impressive voice and stage presence.
A proud First Nations (Weilwan) woman and Goldy local, pop soul songstress Sunny Luwe has gone from strength-to-strength this year, releasing her first album, Flowers in the Sky with a SOLD OUT launch show at Dust Temple, and a QMA finalist nom to boot. Penning songs with Grammy nominees and multiple ARIA Winners Sunny has released prolifically over the past year, crafting fun pop hits, with more tunes on the way for 2024.
True to her name Sunny will bring the sunshine* and good times.
*actual sunshine pending weather report.