	{"id":86710,"date":"2022-12-18T04:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/?p=86710"},"modified":"2022-12-15T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:19:26","slug":"sister-acts-on-stage-at-cresfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/news\/sister-acts-on-stage-at-cresfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister acts on stage at CresFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRESFEST organisers have announced another batch of artists who are set to play Creswick\u2019s folk, roots, and dance festival in April.<\/p>\n<p>Convenor Judy Turner said the line-up will celebrate exceptional women instrumentalists and singers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got some fantastic female performers coming from overseas this time, which last year we weren\u2019t able to do due to COVID,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got some brilliant instrumentalists coming including Brittany Haas, who is one of the world\u2019s leading fiddle players in the American style&#8230; and has been a phenomenal player on the road since she was 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe and Natalie Haas, who\u2019s also a classically trained cellist, are coming out as a sister act, and they\u2019re not alone, because we\u2019ve got several sister acts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharm of Finches, and another young sister band from Melbourne, Apolline, are coming, and they will all be part of a show together called <em>Sister Act<\/em>, where they play one after the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Turner said Canberra-based musician and diplomat, Fred Smith, and songwriter, opera singer, music theatre and cabaret performer, Ami Williamson, are also on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFred offers political commentary, satire and is very comedic, but he writes in a very heartfelt and moving way about Australian involvement in overseas wars,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmi is bringing her one-woman show to CresFest which is mind-blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently announced artists include Monique Clare, The Maggie Carty Band, Martha Spencer, Z\u00d6J, Kavisha Mazzella, The Weeping Willows, Bush Gothic, and celtic band Austral.<\/p>\n<p>Earlybird second round tickets are available until 1 February, or until sold out, at <strong>cresfest.com.au\/tickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRESFEST organisers have announced another batch of artists who are set to play Creswick\u2019s folk, roots, and dance festival in April. 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