UNDERSCORE REGIONAL DATES JULY 2026

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UNDERSCORE blurs the line between music, storytelling, song and recitation as acclaimed writers perform excerpts of their work over a lush electro-acoustic soundscape provided by Sally Ford and the Idiomatics.

"There’s a special kind of intimacy here. A superbly focused and talented band with the
unique combination of traditional and modern instruments (and musical styles) cradling
each piece and giving it different shapes and textures.” Stage Whispers, June 2023

The live readings by writers such as Helen Garner, Christos Tsiolkas, Wayne Macauley,
Jennifer Down, Brian Nankervis, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Jane Clifton are bookmarked
by songs and stories from the band, featuring Sally Ford’s wryly-observed lyrics of life, love
and lived experience ... a richly imagined musical and literary experience.

UNDERSCORE launched in mid-2023 at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Melbourne’s Brunswick Ballroom to hugely enthusiastic audiences, and we have since presented iterations of the project at Melbourne's Malthouse Outdoor Stage, Clunes Booktown Festival, The Athenaeum Library, Readings Bookstore's 50th Anniversary, Archies Creek Hotel, Beleura House and a return performance at the Brunswick Ballroom.

A genre-bending, genre-blending musical and literary salon!

CONTACTS

REPRESENTATIVE Patrick Cronin | Idiomatic Arts idiomatic.info@icloud.com

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