Press Play & Fusion Boutique Presents
Charm of Finches 2025 National Tour
w/ Special Guest Baby Velvet
Live in Concert at the Baroque Room, Carrington Hotel
SATURDAY 12th April 2025
Doors Open 6pm | Show Start 7pm
Venue: BAROQUE ROOM 15 Katoomba St, Katoomba, NSW 2780 Blue Mountains.
– Entry via the Carrington Hotel Driveway –
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.
They return performing songs from their latest album as well as exciting new material. The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, have toured extensively through the UK, Europe and Canada in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Their fourth studio album ‘Marlinchen In The Snow’ was recorded in rural Nova Scotia with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Oh Pep!), inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape and their transient life on the road with their music. It was released on iconic Australian Indie label Spunk Records in April 2024, debuting on the national ARIA charts Top 30 Aus Albums.
Their third album ‘Wonderful Oblivion’ released in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music saw them win the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album (2022) and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act (2021).
They have been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.
“Wonderful Oblivion is a triumphant indie folk effort – nostalgic yet fresh, haunting, but at the same time serene. ” – We Found New Music
“Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches are perched for stardom. For lovers of tight sibling harmonies, chamber folk, and those who long to be carried-away by a lullaby…” – Ariana Morgenstern KCRW Today’s Top Tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYXLSbJkLE
www.facebook.com/charmoffinchesband
www.instagram.com/charmoffinchesband
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+ Special Guest Baby Velvet
Hannah Crofts, under her new moniker Baby Velvet, is on a mission to find whether you always get what you deserve. Her soaring harmonies and aching lyrics are gloriously gritty and heart-wrenching but always familiar with hard-won reflections on the artist’s life.
As one quarter of the indie folk group, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Crofts has toured the world in vintage gowns and rhinestone boots. The band’s debut When We Fall reached #6 on the ARIA charts and won an ARIA for Best Blues and Roots Album.
In early 2022 she released her debut solo album, ‘Please Don’t Be In Love With Someone Else’, produced by LA legend Kevin Ratterman and Melbourne royalty James Gilligan. It features songs like ‘What The Hell Is Wrong With Me’ and ‘Normal People’ with reflections on heartbreak and repeating the same mistakes. The album reaches the zenith of self-doubt with Best in Show, a song about the darker realities of being a touring musician. Lines like ‘room service and hotel rooms are all I have to offer you’ are reminiscent of Charley Pride’s classic, All I have to offer you (is me).
An activist and musician, Crofts feels the world sparkle around her. Baby Velvet inspires lucid rage, clarity and power from which to take on the world. Her soaring harmonies and aching lyrics are gloriously gritty and heart-wrenching but always familiar with hard-won reflections on the artist’s life. This is strident power pop that saturates and sparkles while sinking sharp teeth into the patriarchy. There is no turning back.
www.facebook.com/babyvelvetmusic
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VENUE: BAROQUE ROOM 15 Katoomba St (entry via the Carrington Hotel driveway, through the ‘Baroque Room’ arch) Katoomba, NSW 2780 Blue Mountains
*** NEW ENTRY VIA THE CARRINGTON HOTEL DRIVEWAY KATOOMBA ST ***
Come and enjoy the refurbishments of this terrific room!
*This event is an over 18 years only. No minors will be granted entry to the event.
Please also note that the Baroque Room is a room that we hire, the Carrington Hotel will be operating the bar inside the room but there is no kitchen or food available at the venue. The Old City Bank also owned by the Carrington Hotel next door has hot meals available however guests are unable to bring outside food or drinks inside the Baroque room.
The Carrington will be offering a pre-order cheese pack to be available for pick up from the bar on the evening.
Cheese packs $30 each, to pre-order visit: https://events.humanitix.com/fbcheesecof
*Please note that due to ordering times needed for supplies this cheese pack pre-order option will only be available until 9am on the 7th April (no further orders will be taken and no packs will be available for purchase on the night).
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Room configuration will be seated and allocated and tables require group bookings.
Guests will not be able to move seating between sections or transfer from assigned seats.
Section A Theatre style seating will be allocated from the front of the stage to the back, based on booking types and the order that they are received.
Individual group bookings for section A are unlikely to be able to be placed together unless requested prior to the event date.
Guests will be emailed their seat allocations prior to the event date.
Section A – Theatre Style Seating $30 pre + bf / $35 door per person
Section B – Bar Area Cabaret Table Seating $30 pre + bf / $35 door per person
Section C – Back Lounge Cabaret Table Seating $25 pre + bf / $30 door per person
(Please note that there are 2 stairs to access the lounge)
Ticket Link: https://events.humanitix.com/fbcof
*Door sales only available if not sold out prior.
Discount show pre-bookings will close 6pm on the day of the event.
STRICTLY NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS
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• It is crucial that if you are experiencing any COVID like symptoms (flu-like symptoms, fevers, sore-throats etc) that you please do not attend.
• Guests can still book with confidence knowing that, while tickets are normally non-refundable, if a show needs to be cancelled for any reason then all tickets will of course be refunded. If a show needs to be rescheduled then tickets will be valid for the new dates. In the instance of guest illness tickets can be transferred on request.
• There will be no entry to the venue for guests prior to the stated doors open time.
RUN TIMES
Doors & Bar Open: 6pm (no guest entry prior)
Performance Start: 7pm
CONTACT DETAILS OF EVENT ORGANISER: Charity Mirow
For more information visit: www.fusionboutique.com.au