About

 

Winners of the 'Group of the Year' 2024 and 'Traditional Folk Album of the Year' 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards (AFMA), Austral will transport you into full festival party mode. They are a high-energy, four-piece Australian Celtic group combining didgeridoo, Irish pipes, high energy fiddling, journeying songs and energetic foot percussion. Whether you see them on stage or at the session afterward, Austral will get your festival going. HUP!

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Austral features Melbourne-based artists Angus Barbary (fiddle, vocals, mandola), Caity Brennan (fiddle, vocals) Rhys Crimmin (guitar, percussion, didgeridoo, vocals) and Connor Hoy (Uilleann pipes, flute, whistle). Austral's original music is infectiously toe-tapping and you may find it hard to resist the urge to get up and dance yourself. They have developed their own unique high-energy live sound and have a world-class stage presence full of Aussie flair. Austral are making waves in the contemporary Celtic and folk music scene and due to standout live performances at festivals at home and abroad, they are a band not to be missed.

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Soon releasing a second album to follow their AFMA award-winning debut 'Thylacine', to widespread acclaim, Austral are hitting the festival scene, ready to start a few festival dance parties near you.