Bonny Light Horseman have been announced as part of the line up for Golden Plains, Port Fairy Folk Festival and WOMADelaide. Now we’re excited to share they are also stopping by Anglesea for a headliner show for The Sound Doctor on Saturday 1 March.
Individually there is nothing in the music world the three core members of this band haven’t done – Anaïs Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway musical Hadestown, which notched eight Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Eric D. Johnson is best known as the mind behind beloved indie mainstays Fruit Bats, as a longtime collaborator with The Shins and as a film score composer. Josh Kaufman is a songwriter, producer and position player, who has recorded and performed with artists ranging from Bob Weir to The War on Drugs to Taylor Swift, Hiss Golden Messenger and The Hold Steady. As a group they’ve received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album and been nominated for Best American Roots Performance.
Bonny Light Horseman are heading to Australia with their third release Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free, a sprawling and welcoming album partly recorded in a pub in a tiny coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, that encompasses the group’s captivating artistic layers. Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman’s most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date.
Hearing their musical artistry and the interplay of their harmonies in Anglesea Memorial Hall will be a spinetingling and memorable experience.
Sat 1 March 2025 7.30pm
Tickets $55 (Standing only)
Book now at https://events.humanitix.com/bonny-light-horsemen
Supported by Surf Coast Events, Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria
Australian tour presented by Jet Black Cat Music