Programme Nigel Wearne (AUS)
Featuring world class musicians ...
... from New Zealand and around the world, Whare Flat Folk Festival is four days of music, sun, camping, workshops and jams in the idyllic native bush surrounds of Waiora Scout Camp. Just 15 minutes' drive from Dunedin, Whare Flat is the best way to see in the New Year.
Nigel Wearne (AUS)
Tue 31 Dec | 4 pm | Workshop | Workshop Space
Wed 1 Jan | Evening concert | Marquee
Thu 2 Jan | 3 pm | Afternoon feature concert | Marquee
Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, jazz and Americana-noir. Hailing from Gunditjmara country in the deep south of Australia, he's a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influences such as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones. Nigel has played some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals, including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (USA), Cambridge Folk Festival (UK), MerleFest (USA), Philadelphia Folk Festival (USA) and the Adelaide Guitar Festival (Australia). His latest album ‘The Reckoning’ received a nomination for Best Blues Work at the 2023 and 2024 Music Victoria Awards, a 4-STAR review in The Weekend Australian and had two songs selected as finalised (top #10) in the International Songwriting Competition. A deep thinker and truth seeker with a penchant for all things peculiar, he sings of human frailty, grace and the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone. "Vocal swagger of Van Morrison and dark spirituality and intelligence of Nick Cave" 4 STARS – The Weekend Australian.
Nigel's links
https://open.spotify.com/artist/46borjrmKCaBVcb2SMBNHe
https://www.instagram.com/nigelwearne
https://www.facebook.com/nigelwearnemusic
https://nigelwearne.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QF4SdRTjsM
