Artsy rootsy pop music.

Great Southern Nights presents a band performance from Brian Campeau plus solo performances from Malaika Mfalme and Zsa Zsa.

Brian Campeau is widely regarded as one of the most confounding and creative artists working in Australia today. In addition to his previous solo albums (which also include 2007’s ‘Two Faces’ and 2009’s ‘Mostly Winter, Sometimes Spring’) he has recorded and toured as one half of folk-pop act The Rescue Ships and as part of Sydney’s bluegrass revivalists The Green Mohair Suits, while also producing records for the likes of Melanie Horsnell in his St Peters studio. Drawing influence from a limitless range of styles, Campeau has described his own music, with characteristic wry clarity, as ‘Bjork meets Nick Drake, or Cass McCombs getting depressed and calling Air for consolation’.

Malaika Mfalme is a Tanzanian/Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and event producer creating on Gadigal Land (Sydney). In their mother tongue Swahili, their name translates to Angel King. Malaika writes immersive and evoking music that focuses on black love, self-acceptance, grief, and the journey of being loved and sometimes lost.  Malaika’s music creates a space focused on healing with a powerful message of kindness, acceptance and reflection vibrating through every one of their sonic outputs. Mfalme’s ink-stained fingers play sweet melodic guitar alongside strikingly smooth vocals layered with a looping pedal; reminding you their name is Angel for a reason.<

ZSA ZSA is an Eora/Sydney-based alt-pop artist whose self-produced music ranges from hyperpop to alt-folk, and explores themes of love, care and identity. 

Entry is free! For more information please visit http://townhallhotelnewtown.com

Great Southern Nights 2024 will take place from 8-24 March 2024 featuring more than 300 gigs across 17
nights throughout Sydney’s inner city and Western Sydney, as well as shows in seven key music
communities across NSW, including Tamworth, Wagga, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Northern Rivers.