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We.Are.All.AntsGrace Vandals // Anya Anastasia // Jamie Lena // Emerauld // Alycia Budd
Five femme / gender non-conforming experimental artists performing solo. Dialling up amp volumes, plugging in pedals, carving out soundscapes. Casting spidery webs. Crooning, shouting, weeping.
Tickets $20 online $25 at the door. This event very nearly SOLD OUT the first time we ran it, please show your support and out of generous respect for the artists, book early <3
This event takes place on the stolen sovereign lands of the Kaurna people. With deepest respect we acknowledge this, in reverence of elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
ARTISTS:
Grace Vandals: Unabashedly emotional, eclectic and full of the mortal notions of risk, love and loss – Grace Vandals delivers you into a rich and gritty world of sound, coated in an unexpected outer layer of tenderness. Her 2025 debut album release, ‘What Can I Burn Here?’, invites you into a melting pot of alternative and indie rock influences, replete with visceral imagery, prickly emotions, ugly truths and childlike curiosity. Drawing inspiration from the illustrious creative minds of Jeff Buckley, Patti Smith and the like, Vandals and her band share an open desire to unravel perfection and embrace the unusual. A gentle but firm force, Vandals’ music belongs in a place with hearts beating, brains dreaming and eyes wide open.
Jamie Lena Kerslake: Jamie Lena Kerlslake is an alt-folk/soul artist from Kaurna/Ramindjeri country exploring the intimacy of living; femininity, sovereignty, love, and politics. Known for her intimate lyrics and intricate songwriting, Jamie’s music serves at once as a knife, a salve and an elixir.
Kerslake has been praised for her ‘milk & honey vocals’, standout self-accompaniment, and soul-filled songwriting. Following her debut EP produced by Grammy nominee Nick Herrera, Kerslake continues to build national recognition through festival performances at WOMADelaide, St Kilda Festival, and The Adelaide Guitar Festival. Kerslake has recieved recognition in the South Australian music awards, and the APRA AMCOS regional charts.
Kerslake’s debut album, The Ruins Of An Over-Enthused Heart, is set to be released in August 2026.
Anya Anastasia: Anya Anastasia's distinctive music is a powerful blend of experimental folk and art-rock, steeped in global music influences. Driven by catchy guitar riffs, complex rhythms, and rich distinctive vocals, Anya weaves layers of sonic detail to paint strange and dreamlike landscapes that are vibrant and intoxicating. Anya's lyrics ask questions about our society, conspiring to stir dissent and environmental action. Amidst the grind of modern industrial life, her songs transcribe wonders of the natural world. The songs are infused with late-stage-capitalism anthroposcenic angst, and awe at the astonishing beauty of the natural world.
Emerauld: Emerauld, a 20 year old Folk Rock/Indie artist from regional Adelaide, is best known for their radically honest lyrics and powerhouse vocals that leave no space for subtlety. Striving to make the world a little more Queer, their songs unravel what it’s like to grow up as a raging, gender bent Lesbian in today’s day and age. Their music moves through themes of self worth, getting comfortable in the uncomfortable and the strangeness of growing into yourself. Emerauld featured in the 2022 Triple J Unearthed High Yearbook, in 2023 was a contestant on Australian Idol and has garnered airplay on Triple J. In 2025 their song 'In The First Place" was featured in Rolling Stone's Best Australian Music of the Week.
Alycia Budd: Alycia Budd is a singer-songwriter from Adelaide, South Australia. Inspired by storytellers such as Bob Dylan, Laura Marling, Cat Stevens, Feist and PJ Harvey, she explores the nature of mind and human experience with dreamy guitar lines and delicate yet powerfully dynamic vocals. With narratives drenched in imagery of natural landscapes, and set to soaring melodies, Alycia’s music is a unique and alternative blend of folk, blues and alt-country. She released her debut album ‘Constellations’ in July 2016, before heading abroad to live and perform in the UK. Now back in Adelaide, Alycia is working on her next release.
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Event Venue
Grace Emily Hotel, 232 Waymouth St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia, Adelaide
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