Music, She Wrote’s purpose is to tell women’s stories in their own voices: the stories of who we’ve been, what we choose to embrace, and what we fight to change. Featuring Melbourne’s finest classical, baroque, and jazz performers, this festival celebrates those stories and the women who tell them through music.

Lucy joins Wattleseed Ensemble and Astrid Connelly for the final performance of the festival. Closing night features festival director Katie Yap’s Wattleseed Ensemble, with soprano Astrid Connelly. This program responds to a universal need that has been keenly felt over the course of the last tumultuous year: a need for comfort, for understanding, and for connection. Combining historically informed baroque and medieval music, folk music, and contemporary chamber music, it explores the voices of women over the span of a millennium, from Hildegard von Bingen to Sydney-based Alice Chance. The intimacy of Wattleseed Ensemble’s gut strings and Astrid Connelly’s magnetic voice will draw you in for an evening to soothe the soul and ignite the senses.

PROGRAM

Concert 1: Speak

Monday 24th May, 8pm

Syzygy Ensemble/Michelle Nicolle Quartet

Concert 2: Strength

Tuesday 25th May, 8pm

Duo Piaggio/Emma Sullivan

Concert 3: Warmth

Wednesday 26th May, 8pm

Astrid Connelly and Wattleseed Ensemble