Charles Jenkins

CHARLES JENKINSCharles Jenkins is a well known South Australian artist, now based in Melbourne. He is a songwriter/musician, producer, performer and teacher with more than 30 years experience in the Australian Music Industry. He has released 20 albums, toured Europe and the USA several times and been nominated for two ARIA awards with the Icecream Hands. In 2014 he won the AGE/Music Victoria award for best folk/roots album and in August 2020 Icecream Hands released their first album in 13 years – No Weapon But Love. In December 2021 he released his latest solo album Radio Sketches. He currently teaches songwriting at Box Hill Institute as well as having private students, running small workshops, and providing songwriting mentoring for the Port Fairy Folk Festival Youth Program. Charles has a Masters In Music and is an Ambassador for APRA/AMCOS.http://www.charlesjenkins.com.auNICK VULTUREWith this solo acoustic venture, Nick Vulture has moved  into territory that couldn’t be any further removed from his roots in the garage punk scene of Adelaide, South Australia with his band The Molting Vultures. This is gritty acoustic folk done raw and stripped back to its very core.  The songs are deeply personal but also universal in that they reflect the general fragility of the human condition with all of its uncertainty, its cruelty and its beauty. Nick's latest album Dust Off The Trails was released in April 2022 and charted nationally for 5 weeks and locally for 6 weeks straight. In 2023, Nick has also plaed showcases at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, toured the UK and played in Tokyo.https://www.nickvulture.com