Seymour Centre and Sydney Festival present
Seymour Nights @ Sydney Festival
Contemporary Music Series
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.
Explore the full Seymour Nights @ Sydney Festival program below.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are Sydney’s most loveable DJ duo. An ever-evolving love affair of friends, it started as a side hustle, an art project, a dare between two best friends, and has grown into something quite remarkable.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are an amorphic group of ne'er-do-wells who love capital D Disco and a Big Old Boogie - they can start a party anywhere, anytime, every time. Their shows are larger than life, welcoming, warm, cheeky, generous, accommodating, flirty, and hugely energetic.
The Dollars believe that the joy and passion of disco is so infectious, so danceable, that armed with cheap records, they can create a dance floor so heaving and unrelenting, that no one in the venue can say “disco is dead”, or make any sort of Melbourne-is-better-than-Sydney remark.
Event details
Date: Thu 5 Jan
Time: 8:45pm - 10:45pm
Outdoor bar and vintage games will be available
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.
Event details
Date: Thu 12 Jan
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Lisa Caruso and band
Known for her unique vocal and filmic releases, Lisa Caruso’s songs hold as much guts as they do passion and appease.
After being named a finalist at the Australian Women in Music Awards, Lisa continued independent success in 2020, releasing debut album In Feelings and supporting artists such as Sarah Blasko and Boy and Bear.
Lead single Shake Baby Shake featured on NBC TV show Good Girls, and others received critical acclaim, play listing, and national and international radio play. Now deep in pre-production for her sophomore album, Lisa is shedding new skin and pushing artistic boundaries; exploring sounds and talking points more vibrant and frank than before.
Opener: Kim Yang
Inspired by Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver, Taiwanese-Australian songstress Kim Yang writes music on love, life, and mental health issues with evocative lyrics, driving melodies, and soaring vocals. Her ethereal blend of sounds balances delicately between vulnerability and strength.
Kim has supported and shared the stage with ARIA Award-winning artists including Katie Noonan, Josh Pyke, Ben Lee, Kate Ceberano, and Fanny Lumsden. She is a regular at big gigs and festivals, including the National Folk Festival and Sydney Folk Festival.
Since 2019 Kim has released two EPs and one live album, and received various grants from ArtACT, including a grant to produce her upcoming new project. Her music has aired regularly on Double J radio and premiered on triple J.
Event details
Date: Fri 13 Jan
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Act 1: Harry Foxton and band
Australian heartland rocker Harry Foxton is rising through the ranks, delivering captivating lyrics and rocking melodies on an international scale.
Hailing from a blue-collar background, hope and hard times shine through Foxton’s lyrics, spotlighting honest truths on the ride that we call life.
With a commanding presence on stage, Harry’s energy is warm yet electric, and will leave you hanging on every word, note, and story that falls from his guitar.
Act 2: The Banks Brothers
Born and bred in Sydney’s inner west, The Banks Brothers are an unmistakable duo. Real life brothers as well as a musical pairing, the two cut their teeth in Sydney’s pubs and bars starting when they were still in school, and now have over 20 years' experience performing together.
Zane and Jy Banks have created a name for themselves as two of the finest song-writers and pickers around, performing in iconic Sydney bands as individual performers, as well as together.
With a sound deeply rooted in mid-century American music, and shaped by the sounds of Sydney’s live-music scene, the brothers have a fresh and uniquely Australian take on classic country, rock, blues, and Americana.
Act 3: Zane Banks
Anyone who has ever met Zane Banks can attest that he's one of a kind. Obsessed with the guitar from childhood, but not your typical guitar nut, he has built his mastery of his instrument into his life’s work, performing music spanning the spectrum of genres, from jazz to country/ bluegrass to classical music.
His songs span a wide world of ideas and influences, encompassing everything from high art and roaring guitar solos, to poetry and the American songbook, all in his search for truth and beauty.
Born and bred in Sydney’s inner west but with a career that has taken him to stages across the globe, Zane Banks is a rare voice and one well worth your time and attention.
Event details
Date: Sat 14 Jan
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
The Dollar Bin Darlings are Sydney’s most loveable DJ duo. An ever-evolving love affair of friends, it started as a side hustle, an art project, a dare between two best friends, and has grown into something quite remarkable.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are an amorphic group of ne'er-do-wells who love capital D Disco and a Big Old Boogie - they can start a party anywhere, anytime, every time. Their shows are larger than life, welcoming, warm, cheeky, generous, accommodating, flirty, and hugely energetic.
The Dollars believe that the joy and passion of disco is so infectious, so danceable, that armed with cheap records, they can create a dance floor so heaving and unrelenting, that no one in the venue can say “disco is dead”, or make any sort of Melbourne-is-better-than-Sydney remark.
Event details
Date: Sun 15 Jan
Time: 3:30pm - 6:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
DJ Jack Shit's collection spans all eras and genres of recorded music, with digital files, CDs, vinyl and even shellac getting a spin. He possesses the world’s only three-armed, hand-made, dual turntable on which to play his hundreds of classic 78s.
A year or so ago he was selected to go head-to-head with our new Prime Minister, DJ Albo, for the launch of the Community Cup. It's fair to say both blokes bonded over their shared love for the work of lesser-known local luminaries on wax.
For most of the past decade back home, Jack has been a main-stage mainstay at Falls Festival in Marion Bay, Tasmania, often playing up to and across the midnight hour on New Years Eve. A few years ago he became the first FBi Radio DJ to be accorded the great honour of spinning stunning sounds at the iconic Golden Plains Festival in Victoria.
Event details
Date: Thu 19 Jan
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Little Green
Growing up in the Blue Mountains, nomadic singer-songwriter Little Green developed a sense of storytelling and musicality inspired by the nature around her.
The self-taught musician plays flute, sax, guitar, piano, bass, and voice, and has written songs since the time she could speak as her way of processing the world.
Opener: BIRDEE王煒
BIRDEE王煒 is creating a name for herself on the indie-pop scene, pairing her signature breezy sound with irresistibly danceable rhythms.
Having established her place in Sydney’s local artist scene, BIRDEE王煒 is committed to reviving live music across Australia, recently performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Wollongong alongside local talent Majak Door, and lighting up Sydney at iconic venues such as Vic on The Park, The Vanguard, and The Marlborough Hotel.
She’s also taken her electrifying live performance overseas, having just performed three shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Event details
Date: Fri 20 Jan
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Elana Stone and band
Singer/ songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Elana Stone is an ARIA Award-winning musician whose style combines instrumental invention with quirk, and inclines to write pop that is by turns exultant or introspective.
Elana’s music encompasses folk, modern electronica, indie pop, and balladry, underpinned by Stone’s signature lyrical vulnerability and ear for melody. Elana has released three studio albums of solo material - In The Garden of Wild Things (2006), Your Anniversary (2009), and Kintsugi (2015).
Elana is also a member of the award-winning folk and alt country act All Our Exes Live In Texas, who have toured the USA, UK, and Europe extensively. All Our Exes Live in Texas have opened for The Backstreet Boys (USA), Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (USA) and Australian icons Midnight Oil.
Opener: Butternut Sweetheart
Butternut Sweetheart is the music of Melbourne-based producers Luke Moseley, Jasmine Johnstone, and Lawrence Folvig, who describes the project as ‘post apocalyptic underwater indie' inspired by the likes of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tune-Yards, and Melody's Echo Chamber.
Year one of Butternut Sweetheart featured a total of 35 shows including two headline tours, a national support for Ball Park Music, and appearing at BigSound.
Butternut Sweetheart’s debut EP, Concrete Solid Lung, presents five tracks of unique and beautifully produced indie music. Bury Me, track one, has been heard on triple J, Double J, FBi, and Triple R.
Floating in the musical realm between Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Radiohead, Butternut Sweetheart weaves intricately written melodies with catchy hooks and beats.
Event details
Date: Sat 21 Jan
Time: 5pm - 8pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
DJ Jack Shit's collection spans all eras and genres of recorded music, with digital files, CDs, vinyl and even shellac getting a spin. He possesses the world’s only three-armed, hand-made, dual turntable on which to play his hundreds of classic 78s.
A year or so ago he was selected to go head-to-head with our new Prime Minister, DJ Albo, for the launch of the Community Cup. It's fair to say both blokes bonded over their shared love for the work of lesser-known local luminaries on wax.
For most of the past decade back home, Jack has been a main-stage mainstay at Falls Festival in Marion Bay, Tasmania, often playing up to and across the midnight hour on New Years Eve. A few years ago he became the first FBi Radio DJ to be accorded the great honour of spinning stunning sounds at the iconic Golden Plains Festival in Victoria.
Event details
Date: Sun 22 Jan
Time: 4pm - 7pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
We are a registered COVID-Safe business with measures in place to make your next Seymour visit safe and enjoyable. Find out more about our safety measures.
This event is supported by the City of Sydney and presented in association with Sydney Festival.
Free event. No tickets or registration required.
From acclaimed drama and acrobatic fun to captivating shows for kids, there's something for everyone in the Seymour's Sydney Festival line-up. Playing 5 to 22 January. Explore the program.
Free event. No tickets or registration required.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are Sydney’s most loveable DJ duo. An ever-evolving love affair of friends, it started as a side hustle, an art project, a dare between two best friends, and has grown into something quite remarkable.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are an amorphic group of ne'er-do-wells who love capital D Disco and a Big Old Boogie - they can start a party anywhere, anytime, every time. Their shows are larger than life, welcoming, warm, cheeky, generous, accommodating, flirty, and hugely energetic.
The Dollars believe that the joy and passion of disco is so infectious, so danceable, that armed with cheap records, they can create a dance floor so heaving and unrelenting, that no one in the venue can say “disco is dead”, or make any sort of Melbourne-is-better-than-Sydney remark.
Event details
Date: Thu 5 Jan
Time: 8:45pm - 10:45pm
Outdoor bar and vintage games will be available
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.
Event details
Date: Thu 12 Jan
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Lisa Caruso and band
Known for her unique vocal and filmic releases, Lisa Caruso’s songs hold as much guts as they do passion and appease.
After being named a finalist at the Australian Women in Music Awards, Lisa continued independent success in 2020, releasing debut album In Feelings and supporting artists such as Sarah Blasko and Boy and Bear.
Lead single Shake Baby Shake featured on NBC TV show Good Girls, and others received critical acclaim, play listing, and national and international radio play. Now deep in pre-production for her sophomore album, Lisa is shedding new skin and pushing artistic boundaries; exploring sounds and talking points more vibrant and frank than before.
Opener: Kim Yang
Inspired by Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver, Taiwanese-Australian songstress Kim Yang writes music on love, life, and mental health issues with evocative lyrics, driving melodies, and soaring vocals. Her ethereal blend of sounds balances delicately between vulnerability and strength.
Kim has supported and shared the stage with ARIA Award-winning artists including Katie Noonan, Josh Pyke, Ben Lee, Kate Ceberano, and Fanny Lumsden. She is a regular at big gigs and festivals, including the National Folk Festival and Sydney Folk Festival.
Since 2019 Kim has released two EPs and one live album, and received various grants from ArtACT, including a grant to produce her upcoming new project. Her music has aired regularly on Double J radio and premiered on triple J.
Event details
Date: Fri 13 Jan
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Act 1: Harry Foxton and band
Australian heartland rocker Harry Foxton is rising through the ranks, delivering captivating lyrics and rocking melodies on an international scale.
Hailing from a blue-collar background, hope and hard times shine through Foxton’s lyrics, spotlighting honest truths on the ride that we call life.
With a commanding presence on stage, Harry’s energy is warm yet electric, and will leave you hanging on every word, note, and story that falls from his guitar.
Act 2: The Banks Brothers
Born and bred in Sydney’s inner west, The Banks Brothers are an unmistakable duo. Real life brothers as well as a musical pairing, the two cut their teeth in Sydney’s pubs and bars starting when they were still in school, and now have over 20 years' experience performing together.
Zane and Jy Banks have created a name for themselves as two of the finest song-writers and pickers around, performing in iconic Sydney bands as individual performers, as well as together.
With a sound deeply rooted in mid-century American music, and shaped by the sounds of Sydney’s live-music scene, the brothers have a fresh and uniquely Australian take on classic country, rock, blues, and Americana.
Act 3: Zane Banks
Anyone who has ever met Zane Banks can attest that he's one of a kind. Obsessed with the guitar from childhood, but not your typical guitar nut, he has built his mastery of his instrument into his life’s work, performing music spanning the spectrum of genres, from jazz to country/ bluegrass to classical music.
His songs span a wide world of ideas and influences, encompassing everything from high art and roaring guitar solos, to poetry and the American songbook, all in his search for truth and beauty.
Born and bred in Sydney’s inner west but with a career that has taken him to stages across the globe, Zane Banks is a rare voice and one well worth your time and attention.
Event details
Date: Sat 14 Jan
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
The Dollar Bin Darlings are Sydney’s most loveable DJ duo. An ever-evolving love affair of friends, it started as a side hustle, an art project, a dare between two best friends, and has grown into something quite remarkable.
The Dollar Bin Darlings are an amorphic group of ne'er-do-wells who love capital D Disco and a Big Old Boogie - they can start a party anywhere, anytime, every time. Their shows are larger than life, welcoming, warm, cheeky, generous, accommodating, flirty, and hugely energetic.
The Dollars believe that the joy and passion of disco is so infectious, so danceable, that armed with cheap records, they can create a dance floor so heaving and unrelenting, that no one in the venue can say “disco is dead”, or make any sort of Melbourne-is-better-than-Sydney remark.
Event details
Date: Sun 15 Jan
Time: 3:30pm - 6:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
DJ Jack Shit's collection spans all eras and genres of recorded music, with digital files, CDs, vinyl and even shellac getting a spin. He possesses the world’s only three-armed, hand-made, dual turntable on which to play his hundreds of classic 78s.
A year or so ago he was selected to go head-to-head with our new Prime Minister, DJ Albo, for the launch of the Community Cup. It's fair to say both blokes bonded over their shared love for the work of lesser-known local luminaries on wax.
For most of the past decade back home, Jack has been a main-stage mainstay at Falls Festival in Marion Bay, Tasmania, often playing up to and across the midnight hour on New Years Eve. A few years ago he became the first FBi Radio DJ to be accorded the great honour of spinning stunning sounds at the iconic Golden Plains Festival in Victoria.
Event details
Date: Thu 19 Jan
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Little Green
Growing up in the Blue Mountains, nomadic singer-songwriter Little Green developed a sense of storytelling and musicality inspired by the nature around her.
The self-taught musician plays flute, sax, guitar, piano, bass, and voice, and has written songs since the time she could speak as her way of processing the world.
Opener: BIRDEE王煒
BIRDEE王煒 is creating a name for herself on the indie-pop scene, pairing her signature breezy sound with irresistibly danceable rhythms.
Having established her place in Sydney’s local artist scene, BIRDEE王煒 is committed to reviving live music across Australia, recently performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Wollongong alongside local talent Majak Door, and lighting up Sydney at iconic venues such as Vic on The Park, The Vanguard, and The Marlborough Hotel.
She’s also taken her electrifying live performance overseas, having just performed three shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Event details
Date: Fri 20 Jan
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
Headliner: Elana Stone and band
Singer/ songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Elana Stone is an ARIA Award-winning musician whose style combines instrumental invention with quirk, and inclines to write pop that is by turns exultant or introspective.
Elana’s music encompasses folk, modern electronica, indie pop, and balladry, underpinned by Stone’s signature lyrical vulnerability and ear for melody. Elana has released three studio albums of solo material - In The Garden of Wild Things (2006), Your Anniversary (2009), and Kintsugi (2015).
Elana is also a member of the award-winning folk and alt country act All Our Exes Live In Texas, who have toured the USA, UK, and Europe extensively. All Our Exes Live in Texas have opened for The Backstreet Boys (USA), Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (USA) and Australian icons Midnight Oil.
Opener: Butternut Sweetheart
Butternut Sweetheart is the music of Melbourne-based producers Luke Moseley, Jasmine Johnstone, and Lawrence Folvig, who describes the project as ‘post apocalyptic underwater indie' inspired by the likes of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tune-Yards, and Melody's Echo Chamber.
Year one of Butternut Sweetheart featured a total of 35 shows including two headline tours, a national support for Ball Park Music, and appearing at BigSound.
Butternut Sweetheart’s debut EP, Concrete Solid Lung, presents five tracks of unique and beautifully produced indie music. Bury Me, track one, has been heard on triple J, Double J, FBi, and Triple R.
Floating in the musical realm between Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Radiohead, Butternut Sweetheart weaves intricately written melodies with catchy hooks and beats.
Event details
Date: Sat 21 Jan
Time: 5pm - 8pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
DJ Jack Shit's collection spans all eras and genres of recorded music, with digital files, CDs, vinyl and even shellac getting a spin. He possesses the world’s only three-armed, hand-made, dual turntable on which to play his hundreds of classic 78s.
A year or so ago he was selected to go head-to-head with our new Prime Minister, DJ Albo, for the launch of the Community Cup. It's fair to say both blokes bonded over their shared love for the work of lesser-known local luminaries on wax.
For most of the past decade back home, Jack has been a main-stage mainstay at Falls Festival in Marion Bay, Tasmania, often playing up to and across the midnight hour on New Years Eve. A few years ago he became the first FBi Radio DJ to be accorded the great honour of spinning stunning sounds at the iconic Golden Plains Festival in Victoria.
Event details
Date: Sun 22 Jan
Time: 4pm - 7pm
Outdoor bar, Agape Organic food truck, and vintage games will be available
From acclaimed drama and acrobatic fun to captivating shows for kids, there's something for everyone in the Seymour's Sydney Festival line-up. Playing 5 to 22 January. Explore the program.
We are a registered COVID-Safe business with measures in place to make your next Seymour visit safe and enjoyable. Find out more about our safety measures.
This event is supported by the City of Sydney and presented in association with Sydney Festival.
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