Country Witches wrap the year with a laugh

The Country Witches Association (CWA) is presenting its Annual Witches Summer Solstice at the Brunswick Picture House on December 21.

Founding members comedian Mandy Nolan and musician Áine Tyrell are encouraging women to pick up their brooms and set their witchy intentions for 2025 at the annual event.

An alternative to Christmas commercialism, the show is billed as rebellious, anarchic, and deeply rooted in Irish and pagan traditions:

fiery conversations, spicy storytelling, and the warmth of gathering.

Nolan and Tyrrell are calling in rabble-rousers, tree-hugging activists, wild women, wise women, boundary breakers and menopausal cranky pants. The show promises a space for women who feel unheard, are angry, and want to see change – a show for women who are going to make trouble.

Nolan and Tyrrell are individual forces with which to be reckoned; together, they are formidable. Nolan’s fiery comedy is well known, and Irish singer/songwriter Tyrrell uses her craft to give voice to the uncomfortable, with her own lived experience at the forefront of her truth-telling.

The Country Witches is their unlikely collaboration that the duo said speaks deeply to their shared values and the tribe of women who find comfort in their call.

Born of a desire to tumble conversation, community and outrage together in one big creative cauldron, the CWA harnesses the mood with tenderness and contempt to say hard things, outrageous things, kind things, and stupid things, all in one show.

The CWA encourages women who are sick and tired – of judgement and expectation, of violence, and oppression and nothing changing – to end the year by honouring the solstice with humour, kindness and the best kinds of witchcraft.

For a night of music, comedy, conversation, and disruption, head to brunswickpicturehouse.com/country-witches-association-21-dec