Zinnia Blue
Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival 2023
Willie Smith's Apple Shed
2064 Huon Hwy
Jul 15, 2023
1:40 PM GMT+10
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About this concert
Zinnia Blue are honoured to be playing at the tenth anniversary Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival.
A favourite local event of ours, celebrating the charm and culture of the Huon Valley in the depths of Winter.
It's a magical weekend of artists, storytellers, experiences and rollickin’ fun for the kids. Come and see the burning of Big Willie and Wassail thee old apple tree. From the depths and darkness of winter to the embers of fire and light.
Wassail!
Friday July 14 and Saturday July 15
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Zinnia Blue Biography
Zinnia Blue are an alt-country / Americana duo from Cygnet, Tasmania, featuring interweaving guitars and two-part harmonies. The pair create sparse and brooding melodies and lyrical, uplifting ballads that reinterpret country, folk, and old-time music traditions.
The heart of Zinnia Blue is married couple Kate Tucker and Matt Ellis who write and arrange the music together, creating a sound that is delicate, earthy, and emotional. Lead singer Tucker’s voice is sweet, rich, and rough around the edges, reminiscent of The Audreys’ Tasha Coates, and her simple guitar style blends perfectly with Ellis’ tastefully intricate melody guitar work. The pair’s voices weave closely together in old-timey two-part harmonies reminiscent of the Milk Carton Kids or Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
Zinnia Blue distilled their unique sound and eclectic songs for their debut album The Garden, released in January 2020, which they celebrated with a tour beginning at the Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania.
“Ellis and Tucker have made an album of their musical family album ... The gentle, broody and intimately honest – uncompressed – sound of the record conveys the love of family, community and landscape which has been so instrumental in creating this work.”
– Mandy Connell
Read MoreThe heart of Zinnia Blue is married couple Kate Tucker and Matt Ellis who write and arrange the music together, creating a sound that is delicate, earthy, and emotional. Lead singer Tucker’s voice is sweet, rich, and rough around the edges, reminiscent of The Audreys’ Tasha Coates, and her simple guitar style blends perfectly with Ellis’ tastefully intricate melody guitar work. The pair’s voices weave closely together in old-timey two-part harmonies reminiscent of the Milk Carton Kids or Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
Zinnia Blue distilled their unique sound and eclectic songs for their debut album The Garden, released in January 2020, which they celebrated with a tour beginning at the Cygnet Folk Festival in Tasmania.
“Ellis and Tucker have made an album of their musical family album ... The gentle, broody and intimately honest – uncompressed – sound of the record conveys the love of family, community and landscape which has been so instrumental in creating this work.”
– Mandy Connell
Alt-country
Country
Americana
Folk
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