Seymour Nights @ Sydney Festival – Montgomery Church

Seymour Centre's contemporary music program, Seymour Nights, returns in January 2023 for Sydney Festival.

Offering free gigs at dusk in the Seymour courtyard and coinciding with four brilliant Sydney Festival events, Seymour Nights @ Sydney Festival will champion local artists and new sounds, featuring performances by Montgomery Church, The Dollar Bin Darlings, Elana Stone and more.

With an outdoor bar, vintage games, and delicious food truck fare, join us for a night of live music from some of Australia’s most vibrant voices and ensembles, all in the leafy, summery surrounds of the Seymour courtyard.

HEADLINER: MONTGOMERY CHURCH

Cielle Montgomery and James Church are four time-Golden Guitar Award finalists, Montgomery Church. Their sound is a blend of acoustic folk, Americana, and bluegrass, grown and distilled in the Snowy Mountain ranges of NSW.

With their organic union of dobro, guitar, and harmony vocals, this captivating duo are breaking ground in the contemporary folk-country music scene.

They have toured far and wide and graced the stages of many iconic festivals, including Nannup Music Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, Groundwater Country Music Festival, and Americanafest in Nashville.

OPENER: ZOE ELLIOT

Zoe Elliot has a fresh ‘city folk’ sound and particularly relishes lyric crafting, story telling, and unique harmonies.

She has had the pleasure of supporting and playing alongside Matt Corby, Kim Churchill, Renee Geyer, Tim Finn, the Hussy Hicks, Declan O’Rourke, Dragon, Patrick James, Tin Sparrow, Paul Greene, The Lucky Wonders, and Christopher Coleman, to name a few.

In recent years, Zoe moved to the South Coast where she was inspired to write her two most recent releases about the 2019-2020 bushfires. She is preparing to step back into the recording studio in 2023.