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UPCOMING GIGS

18-20 October 2024

Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival

28 February - 2 March 2025

Cobargo Folk Festival

PAST GIGS

Woodford Folk Festival New Year 2023-24


 

Denmark Festival of Voice 25-26 June 2022


 


National Folk Festival, Easter 2022



 

GANEAA Festival, Wangaratta 29 April 2021-1 May 2021

The Supper Club @ Tamworth Country Music Festival 17-26 Jan 2020

THE STRANDED ASSETS

Penelope's searing songwriting and soaring vocals are artfully underpinned by Mal Webb on bass and vocals and Kylie Morrigan on fiddle and vocals. Their award-winning material will leave you both satisfied and thoughtful.

 

Penelope has been articulating the human condition for over 30 years. She has ten solo albums under her belt, plus five with Mal in their feel-good extravaganza band Totally Gourdgoeus. Penelope won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with her song “Cambridge Analytica” which explores the impact of social media propoganda on democracy. She then went on the be short-listed for the 2020 prize with “The Ides of March in Christchurch”, a skilful and compassionate dissection of the Christchurch massacre and aftermath. The recordings of both songs feature The Stranded Assets.“The Ides of March in Christchurch” was showcased by a number of New Zealand radio stations on the first anniversary of that event and garnered a personal thanks from Jacinda Adern.

 

Penelope Swales and the Stranded Assets made their debut performance at the awards ceremony at the National Folk Festival in 2019. They went on to wow audiences at the 2020 Tamworth Country Music Festival and headlined at GANEAA Festival in Wangaratta in April 2021. In 2022, they opened the Budawang stage at the National Folk Festival and featured at Denmark Festival of Voice in Western Australia.

LIVE ON THE BUDAWANG, NFF 2022

LIVE PERFORMANCE REEL

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VIDEO GALLERY

GETTING BACK ON

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FACTORIES IN CHINA

(Morrigan)

PASSIONFLOWER

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Footage from GANEAA Festival Wangaratta (2021)

HUSH

PHOTO GALLERY

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NEW ALBUM FROM PENELOPE SWALES

 

After a long hiatus from solo recording, Penelope Swales explodes back into musical life with Captains of Industry. This punchy and gutfelt album features long-time musical collaborator Mal Webb on bass, backing vocals, beatbox and brass and the consummate ex-Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Kylie Morrigan on violin and backing vocals.

 

Swales's songwriting has lost none of its power. As always, she delivers compassionate insight and withering commentary in equal measure. Captains of Industry cracks open the modern zeitgeist tackling issues such as the fossil fuel lobby's drag on climate action, the impact of disinformation on democracy and race relations in a deeply divided Australia. She also addresses themes of love, sex, ageing and confidence.  

Trad&Now magazine, issue 161, April 2024.

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