Anousha Victoire + Peter Hicks & Maurie Mulheron present ‘When Woody Met Pete’ @ The Loaded Dog, Saturday 28th November, 7 for 7.30pm start

A 60 minute set from each act –

Anousha Victoire is a weaver of everyday dreams, stitching folk/world influenced melodies with bell-over-water clarity of vocal tone.

Her live performance combines the soaring vocal range of Kate Bush, the melodic pop folk feels of Beth Orton, the fearless feminist fire of Ani Difranco, and the haunting roots melodies of Gillian Welch. With her rotating band of highly accomplished strings and percussion, the introspective singer-songwriter blends delicate ideas with a heart-aching immediacy.

Her trademark fingerpicking folk guitar and haunting vocal melodies are complemented by soaring, emotive strings and vocal harmonies, blending into folk storytelling timeless classics.

After her first ABC Music Award (Folk) for one of the very first songs she wrote, she went on to build a loyal following with multiple songs gaining indie and ABC radio airplay.

Festival credits over the years include the Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Cresfest, Bundanoon Folk Festival, Northern Beaches Music Festival, St Albans Folk Festival Planet Dungog, and Wollombi Festival. She has shared the stage with Judy Small, We Mavericks, Mic Conway, Rebecca Barnard, Isabel Rumble, Melanie Horsnell, Gleny Rae Virus, Felicity Dowd, Jhana Allan, Ember Swift and Penelope Swales.

Initial EP releases back in early 2000’s won recognition, with another ABC Music Award (World Music) for anti-war song Her Love Will Not Return, and airplay of her song on the plight of the last asylum seeker on Nauru with Last Man Standing. She returned to the studio with 2020 full length album Precious Things, and the single Rather Be Your Lover (Than Your Wife) featuring guest bluegrass musicians Gleny Rae and Robbie Long, received airplay on Double J and independent radio. In 2023 she launched EP Embers of the Night produced by Gareth Hudson, with widespread acclaim and airplay on independent radio across Australia and in the UK. Single Mole Creek debuted at #4 on the AMRAP regional charts.

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Peter Hicks and Maurie Mulheron  – When Woody Met Pete: the songs of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. 
Peter and Maurie  present their new show exploring the songs and stories that made Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger two of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century.
The concert features the songs of Guthrie, who inspired generations of singer-songwriters, and Seeger, the most boycotted, banned, blacklisted, and picketed musician in American history. Their chance meeting in 1940 changed the course of musical history sparking the world-wide folk music revival.
You’ll get chance to hear, and sing along to, classic folk songs like If I Had a Hammer, This Land is Your Land, Union Maid, Midnight, Special, Turn! Turn Turn! and many more.
Maurie and Peter will take you on a musical journey from the 1930s and 40s, through to the post-
war optimism, the blacklists of the frightened ‘fifties, to the protest movements of the 1960s, and
beyond.
Peter Hicks and Maurie Mulheron are well-known singer-songwriters on the folk music circuit playing
clubs, concerts, picket-lines, and festivals here and overseas.

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