The Morrisons release long awaited debut album with a sweeping east coast tour.
Supported at Smith’s by local chums, Burrows.

Sydney is not known for its fireflies – just as the Appalachian hill-country of Virginia, Kentucky and East Tennessee is not known for its picturesque sandstone harbours. But, as anyone familiar with the dun bushland quarters of the city’s hinterland knows, there are fireflies here – just as there are local pickers seized of all the spirit and fervour of those most enduring musical traditions of the American South. Sydney’s own The Morrisons are just such a band of peerless pickers: musicians possessed of ancient and unsleeping fire tempered and refined by conservatory education and grown warm and nourishing with closeness.

Winners of the Australian Songwriters Association’s 2014 Acoustic/Folk Song of the Year, The Morrisons compound a singularly intoxicating formula, imbuing original songs that tell essentially, stirringly Australian stories with all the timeless soul and rousing intensity of the American roots canon – spanning bluegrass, Americana, country and folk with fluidic ease.

The Morrisons have appeared at Port Fairy Folk Festival, The National, Out On The Weekend, Secret Garden, Blue Mountains Music Festival and countless others, and have supported the likes of US trad. soul luminaries Lake Street Dive, Canadian alt. country icon Lindi Ortega, and fast-rising weird-country star Marlon Williams (NZ). Cementing their place at the forefront of the local scene, The Morrisons spearheaded Sydney’s wildly popular Country & Inner Western fixture – presented by Lost Highway Australia – hosting such acclaimed artists as Shane Nicholson, Emma Swift and Catherine Britt. The Morrisons’ own Man of Constant Sorrow: A Tribute to the Music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? showcase has sold out two years in a row (and counting), receiving marquee billing at the 2016 Spectrum Now and Vivid Festivals and featuring performances from Sydney mainstays including Ngaiire, All Our Exes Live In Texas and Brian Campeau.

Tracked at Sydney’s industry-leading Free Energy Device Studios, the album was produced by analogue and retro-specialist Richie Belkner (Jack Ladder, Sarah Blasko), and features guest performances from Georgia Mooney (All Our Exes Live In Texas) and Matt Mason (DMA’s)

It’s an album abrim with illuminating stories of Australia and of us: paeans to the wide brown land in all its sudden and unrivalled beauty spun in the silken web that is The Morrisons’ preternaturally close four-part harmony, clustered close together, vibrating to a tune that lives and breathes only when they are in company and concert.

“The Morrisons play big band folk, like a mash up of both Inside Llewyn Davis and Oh Brother Where Art Thou’s T-Bone Burnett” – Concrete Playground

“An incredible bluegrass/country/folk 7 piece” – AU Review
“Fantastic instrumentalists and some of the finest harmony singers around” – Timber & Steel

Burrows

Five piece New-folk band Burrows offers weightless vocal harmonies tethered by warm guitar and cello. Containing members of Cracked Actor, The Ellis Collective and Mr. Fibby they have played such festivals as The National Folk Festival and You Are Here. Their sparse pop songs speak of familial bonds, idle daydreams, and waking up slowly on a crisp morning in their hometown Canberra. 2016 saw the release of their self-titled debut album.