Honing her own unique blend of fingerstyle folk and indie pop, Naarm-/Melbourne-based musician Megan Kennedy has crafted an impressive repertoire of songs, each adorned with her signature airy vocals and intricate guitar arrangements. The first of which to be released, was her debut 2023 single Time Machines, a sun-drenched ballad that aims to capture the feeling of being caught inside a daydream.

Often described as ‘road songs’ Megan’s lyrics have a knack for transporting the listener, slipping across time and place to recount scenes that are both real and imagined. A mode of enquiry and reflection, her songs muse on the everyday, the existential and things stuck in between.

Megan is looking onward to the release of an upcoming EP toward the end of this year and will be road testing a few of the new songs, backed by a full, four piece band.

Piwaka is the solo project of Kiwi, Josh McGettigan. Taken from the Maori word for a New Zealand-native bird, the moniker is a head-nod towards his home country, although, with a half-decade spent living in various parts of South America and Europe, the name also suits a man who likes to take flight.

Influenced by the finger-picking style and alternate tunings of Jose Gonzalez, the all-in-one method of jazz guitarist Martin Taylor, and with other influences including Bibio, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut and Radiohead, McGettigan refuses to accept that more than one guitar and a voice are required to create lush, dappled, and fulsome soundscapes.