Lineup 2025
Bad // Dreems
It has been over a decade since Bad//Dreems emerged from humble beginnings in an Adelaide white goods’ warehouse in the shadow of the West End Brewery (RIP) and began a journey that has taken them around Australia and the world. They have grown to become one of the country’s most respected guitar acts, known for their brawny rock and roll with brains, which has sought to strip away the veneer of comfortable suburban Australian banality and reveal the stories and characters that lay beneath.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Saturday August 16 - train departs 5.30pm (evening show)
Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys
Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys have been kicking the dust off their heels since 2015. This has led them beyond the borders of their home county (inner-West Sydney), around Australia and on two tours to the US. On top of their own sold-out shows in Sydney and Melbourne over the last couple of years they have also appeared at numerous Festivals including Boogie Festival, Meadow Fest, Out On The Weekend, Riverboats and Tamworth Country Music Festival. In Australia they have also supported the likes of Charley Crockett, Orville Peck, Tony Joe White, Hurray For The Riff Raff and The Felice Brothers.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Saturday August 16 - train departs 5.30pm (evening show)
Cash Savage & The Last Drinks
Naarm/Melbourne heavyweights Cash Savage & The Last Drinks' legendary live shows are an overwhelming flood of emotion and sound, with magnetic frontwoman Cash at the centre of the storm.
Savage’s band The Last Drinks are a powerhouse of fierce and brooding energy, every bit as committed to her songs and message.
Each performance by this band is as epic as it is honest, raw and human. A cathartic, communal experience that refuses to give the audience an easy ethical bypass, but challenges listeners to ask themselves the hard questions and step up.
St Peter’s Church, Daylesford - Friday August 15 - doors open 7.00pm
Charm of Finches
Australian sister duo Charm of Finches delivers intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.
The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, released their third full length album Wonderful Oblivion in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music to critical acclaim.
Winners of the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act, their music has been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.
Glenlyon Town Hall - Sunday August 17 - doors open 10.30am
Daisy Kilbourne
Daisy Kilbourne is a Daylesford-born folk singer-songwriter known for her haunting vocals and evocative storytelling. Drawing inspiration from the 1970s Laurel Canyon era, she weaves themes of love, loss, resilience, and self-discovery into her music, creating a deeply emotional connection with her audience. Joined by her backing band, The Chains, Daisy’s sound is enriched with layered instrumentation that adds depth and a cinematic quality to her music. Daisy has built a devoted following across Victoria and beyond, continuing to carve out a unique space in the modern folk music scene.
Clunes Town Hall - Sunday August 17 - doors open 1.00pm
Grace Cummings
Critically acclaimed Australian artist Grace Cummings hit a new high in 2024 with the release of her third album, Ramona. “It felt like the wind of a hurricane entered the room,” said fan and friend, Angel Olsen.
Praised worldwide in outlets ranging from PAPER to The Guardian, Rolling Stone to NPR, Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. In a departure from the self-produced approach of her 2019 debut Refuge Cove and its 2022 follow-up Storm Queen—the Melbourne-based artist worked with producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Margo Price) to dream up a lavishly orchestrated sound that fully accommodates the depth and scope of her vocal prowess.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Sunday August 17 - train departs 12.00pm
Maple Glider
For Tori Zietsch, who records emotionally direct and woozily romantic songs under the moniker Maple Glider, music has been an escape from a series of oppressive institutions: religion, enervating relationships, her own brain. Vocals melt into layers of plucked acoustic guitar and lulling piano, drawing on the sombre styles of folk contemporaries with a stark tenderness and introspection that assumes the listener is inside her bedroom as she plays for herself.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Saturday August 16 - train departs 12.00pm
Quality Used Cars
Built around the idiosyncratic songwriting and warbling vocals of Francis Tait, and brought to life by a band of hard-working familiar faces from within Naarm / Melbourne’s bubbling underground music communities, Quality Used Cars put full focus on Francis’ charismatic storytelling, over a backdrop that blends sunny Australiana with alt-country tenderness and scrappy garage-pop smarts.
Since 2020, “the Cars” have released two albums — 2021’s 'Good Days/Bad Days' and 'Quality Of Life' in 2023 - with their third album in five years 'One Hundred Million' to be released through Melbourne's Spoilsport Records in the second half of 2025.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Sunday August 17 - train departs 12.00pm
Sarah Blasko
"Whenever I listen to Sarah Blasko’s albums I feel like I’m navigating a vast ocean, with hidden depths below and uncertain weather above, but on Eternal Return her songs bubble up like a clear, pure, mountain spring. It’s an invigorating tonic for the soul." - Dave Faulkner
Sarah Blasko writes songs that strike with rare immediacy, clarity and purpose. Melodies beguilingly simple, lyrics ever honest and direct. Blasko has reached rarefied status in Australia, from the now-classic debut The Overture & The Underscore (2004) through to the stunning Depth Of Field (2018); her six-album run of genre-defining indie-rock and art-pop is unparalleled. Over the course of her albums she has received countless award nominations and has secured 3 ARIA awards and triple j’s Album Of The Year for ‘As Day Follows Night’.
St Peter’s Church, Daylesford - Thursday August 14 - doors open 7.00pm
Sweet Talk
Sweet Talk are renowned for their high-energy live shows, readily whipping unsuspecting punters into frenzied states of boogie and unabashed song at the drop of a hat. The 6-piece band from Melbourne was founded over a bond of late nights, 70s grooves, classic songwriting, and improvised jams.
Gaining a loyal following, Sweet Talk have been journeying across Australia with appearances at some of the country’s favourite festivals including Byron Bay Bluesfest, Queenscliff Music Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, and Out On The Weekend.
2024 was a huge year with a successful tour with Texan Charley Crockett as well as appearances at Bluesfest and the Riverboats Music Festival, where the Queen of Australian Country Music, Kasey Chambers, surprised fans by joining the boys on stage. Sweet Talk released their single Real Good Cookin’ to rave reviews and Australian Top 50 Country chart success.
Clunes Town Hall - Sunday August 17 - doors open 1.00pm
Tim Rogers
With a career now motoring along in its third unique decade, Tim Rogers remarkable resume encompasses the world of Music, Film, Television, Stage and Literature.
As the frontman of You Am I, one of the essential Australian rock n’ roll bands, guitarist and vocalist Tim Rogers along with band mates Russell Hopkinson on drums, Andy Kent on Bass, and (since 1999) Davey Lane on guitar, have released ten studio albums to date.
Tim Rogers musical career has also produced side projects, collaborations and solo albums which include the release of his first solo album in 1999 (with backing band The Twin Set) “What Rhymes With Cars And Girls” Through the release ‘Spit Polish,” “Dirty Ron/Ghost Songs,” “My Better Half” (with Tex Perkins) Rogers Sings Rogerstein,” “ The Rules Of Attraction” (with the Bamboos) and 2017’s incredible “An Actor Repairs”
Whether as part of You Am I or as a solo artist since 1999, Tim Rogers has received 13 ARIA Awards, including Male Artist of the Year, Best Group, Best Independent Release and Album Of The Year.
Bullarto Hall, via the Spa Country Rail - Saturday August 16 - train departs 12.00pm
Vika & Linda
Vika & Linda Bull have captivated Australian audiences for over 35 years with their powerful harmonies and magnetic stage presence. From their Tongan roots singing in church to global tours with The Black Sorrows, the sisters have released eight studio albums, topped charts, and collaborated with legends like Paul Kelly and Kasey Chambers. Inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame and awarded the OAM for their service to music, Vika & Linda are revered for their genre-spanning versatility and soul-stirring performances. With enduring influence and boundless energy, they remain one of Australia’s most treasured and trailblazing vocal duos.
St Peter’s Church, Daylesford - Saturday August 16 - doors open 7.00pm
Watty Thompson
In a gloriously unabashed antipodean drawl, neo-bush balladeer Watty Thompson explores themes of inward and outward love, togetherness, and a desire to strive and live beyond the material. It’s affirming, joyous and inspiring, all played out against a background of rollicking country flavoured Australiana folk.
Watty plied his trade for over a decade, treadin’ sticky carpets with various bands before making for the rugged coastland and the mountains of the Otway Ranges to bunker down and craft material for his dream project. As he wrote and gathered a cohort of friends around him, Thompson found he was creating something that held a new space for the listener. That space was one of love and empathy, where hard won experience could be readily shared, a space big on community, a space big on honesty, a place big on love.
Voted Music Victoria’s Regional Artist of the Year in 2023, Watty has connected with a growing number of believers through stellar showings at various festivals and sold-out performances across the country.
The Old Schoolhouse, Kooroocheang - Saturday August 16 - doors open 12.30pm