Great Aunt
Kenyon Hall, 7904 35th Ave SW, 98126 Seattle Directions
Fri 04.09.2026 19:00
KENYON HALL PRESENTS
Great Aunt (Australia)
Friday, September 4 2026
Doors: 7pm
Show: 7:30pm
Seated
General Admission: $20
Senior/Students: $10
Great Aunt is an award-winning Australian folk duo known for their soaring harmonies, unique instrumentation, and heart-felt live performances. Winners of the 2024 Folk Alliance Australia Duo of the Year, Megan Bird and Chelsea Allen blend folk, country and roots music with influences from their backgrounds in punk, jazz, soul, and rock to create a sound that is at once familiar and entirely their own. With four U.S. tours under their belt and a debut full-length album, It’s All Downhill From Here, due in 2026, the duo will tour Australia and the US extensively in 2026. Their music is equal parts joyful and vulnerable, and delivered with warmth, wit, and undeniable soul.
Learn more: www.greatauntmusic.com
www.kenyonhall.org/events/greataunt26
Performers
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Great Aunt
Raw and austere, simple and bold; full of stomping feet and clapping hands, chants and harmonies, whispered words and soulful lament - that’s the music of Great Aunt. Listen, and you'll hear tales of joy and grief, whiskey and wine, gratitude and purpose-seeking.
Formed in 2016, the duo is a collaboration between songwriter/instrumentalists Megan Bird (mandolin, guitar, vocals) and Chelsea Allen (double bass, vocals, percussion), and draws inspiration from the traditions of old time, bluegrass, and gospel music, with loving and subtle homage to the pair’s diverse background in punk, jazz, roots, and folk music. The instrumentation and arrangements are bare and bold: using only various combinations of mandolin, guitar, or resonator with double bass and percussion, and the sonorous voices of Bird and Allen in harmony.
