GREAT AUNT - EPK
Country folk duo based in Wiradjuri country, Australia, actively touring the USA
Artist of the Year (Duo) - Australian Folk Music Awards, Folk Alliance Australia (2024)
Bookings (USA/Canada): Ben Grace - ben@blackoakartists.com
All other enquiries: hello@greatauntmusic.com
Photos by Anna Caterina Photography @ Open Folk AVL
NEW MUSIC PREVIEW (EMBARGOED TO JULY 9 2025)
New music release: 'The Little Things' by Great Aunt
New Single Explores Expectations and Impermanence
Release date: July 9, 2025 (EMBARGOED)
‘The Little Things,’ the latest single by Australian country folk duo Great Aunt, explores the pressures of living up to expectations — both our own and others’ — juxtaposed against the transient beauty of life. The song reflects on overcoming self-doubt, the fear of loneliness, and our universal yearning to make a meaningful impact. Inspired by family memories and the wisdom shared by loved ones, ‘The Little Things’ encourages listeners to find peace in letting go, embrace our impermanence, and celebrate the little things that define our lives.
“I wonder when I die, did I meet my goal weight?
Or die trying to please, and laying to waste..”
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MUSIC RELEASES (2024):
FREEBURGH
RELEASED FEB 23 2024
Love where you're at, even if it's not exactly where you thought you'd be.
Country folk duo Great Aunt return with a lush new folk tune, 'Freeburgh' - an ode to their favourite little town in high country, Victoria. Halfway to home.
After some personal and professional setbacks, the duo found solace in the safety and warmth of Nan and Pop's Pad, the family's beloved caravan nestled deep within Freeburgh, to drink all the whisky, sing all the songs, and befriend all the birds.
"Whisky burns to heal my heart
Plovers cry from dawn to dark
The lights go out from time to time
But the campfire's lit
So we're just fine
Just fine... "
WHAT’S A GIRL
TO DO NOW?
RELEASED MAR 2, 2024
Bathurst-based duo Great Aunt return with a bang, with their new song, ‘What’s A Girl To Do Now?’
“This is a song about our frustration. As women, for women. Of all shapes, sizes, identities, races, and cultures. The world says we’re not woman enough: too loud, too ugly, too fat, queer, trans, too butch. And at the other end of the scale, if you’re a man, you must not be too ‘girly’, and not express any femininity.”
There’s room for all of us. To celebrate all of us.
“Personally, I’ve been told I don’t look like a girl, I don’t act like a girl, and have been asked the question, “Don’t I want to be a girl?” The truth is: I am a (queer, fat) girl, just not as you want me to be - my existence makes you uncomfortable.”
“I’ve been dismissed, verbally abused, sexually harassed, and assaulted because I’m a girl. When I was younger, I didn’t understand my value, and was led to believe it was my fault.”
We’re so tired of history repeating itself, with violence against women normalised, and the visible attacks on our trans and drag queen community. As white queer women, we recognise that we have a great deal of privilege and a platform to call out hatred and prejudice against our BIPOC friends.
“In high school, I was bullied and harassed every day. Relentlessly, physically and verbally. Some days, I didn’t want to live. It breaks my heart to see queer kids, trans, non-binary kids, have to walk through the fire of this hatred, whilst politicisation of the subject has amplified it beyond measure.”
We can do better for each other in 2024. So let’s.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
VENUES OF NOTE (2024-2025):
The 5 Spot (Nashville, TN, USA)
Club Passim (Cambridge, MA, USA)
The Parlor Room (Northampton, MA, USA)
The Royal Room (Seattle, WA, USA)
Kenyon Hall (Seattle, WA, USA)
The Tivoli (Brisbane, QLD, AUS)
Silver Moon Brewing (Bend, OR, USA)
The Saxon Pub (Austin, TX, AUS)
Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center (Pampa, TX, USA)
Open Folk (Asheville, NC, USA)
Rockwood Music (NYC, NY, USA)
Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe (Galveston, TX, USA)
The Folk Project (Morristown, NJ, USA)
Northcote Social Club (Melbourne, VIC, AUS)
FESTIVALS AND CONFERENCES (2024-2025):
Folk Alliance International (2024, 2023) - private showcases
SXSW (Austin, 2024) - private showcases
Queerfest (Nashville, USA)
Woodford Folk Festival (Woodford, AUS)
Blue Mountains Music Festival (Katoomba, AUS)
Cygnet Folk Festival (Cygnet, AUS)
Nanga Music Festival (Dwellingup, AUS)
Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival (Dorrigo, AUS)
Yackandandah Folk Festival (Yackandandah, AUS)
Fleurieu Folk Festival (Fleurieu, AUS)
SHOWREEL 2025
BIO
“Great Aunt take an eclectic and joyous approach to making music.
The songs are deeply-felt, revealing, relatable - at once a personal and shared revival.”
Short bio:
Great Aunt is an award-winning Australian folk duo known for their soaring harmonies, unique instrumentation, and heart-felt live performances. Winners of the 2024 Folk Alliance Australia Duo of the Year, Megan Bird and Chelsea Allen blend folk, country and roots music with influences from their backgrounds in punk, jazz, soul, and rock to create a sound that is at once familiar and entirely their own. With three U.S. tours under their belt and a debut full-length album, It’s All Downhill From Here, due in 2025, the duo will return to North America on multiple occasions this year, with performances at Ossipee Valley Music Festival and Red Ants Pants Music Festival, amongst others. Their music is equal parts joyful and vulnerable, and delivered with warmth, wit, and undeniable soul.
press
“An Australian duo you need to know” - The Bluegrass Situation, August 2024
THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION (USA)
“[…] Great Aunt is a duo with an impressive log of tours, festival shows, and releases that they’ve independently managed. […] We are eagerly awaiting the release of their debut full-length album, It’s All Downhill From Here, expected later this year. In the meantime, we are honored to highlight this incredible duo from all the way down in Australia, Great Aunt.”
- Sara Gougeon (The Bluegrass Situation: Out Now), June 2024
WAX VINYL RECORDS (UK)
“Australian duo Great Aunt returns with a poignant and empowering track, “What’s A Girl To Do Now?”. With a blend of powerful vocals, percussion, and slide guitar, the song delivers a message of frustration and resilience, addressing societal norms and expectations placed upon women. Through minimal yet effective instrumentation, Great Aunt crafts a compelling narrative that resonates with listeners.”
- Wax Vinyl Records, May 2024
COUNTRY QUEER (USA)
[…] The rhythm of their lyrics and sardonic drawl of their delivery reminds me of the anti-folk scene in New York. There is the quick rhythmic meter […] endowed with all the quirk & lettered poise of eccentric intellectuals like Kimya Dawson or Dufus. Their new single details their experience of bigotry in a seemingly wholesome neighborhood. Lyrically it is charged with electric wit and armed with the musical complexity of their respective broad influences.
- Country Queer - Adeem Maria (the Artist)