Music at The Depot, Cambridge - Great Aunt (Australia)
Cambridge Depot, 6 Broad Street, Cambridge Directions
Sat 18.07.2026 19:00
Music at The Depot - Saturday July 18
Cambridge Depot
6 Broad St, Cambridge NY
Suggested donation - $20
Great Aunt is an award-winning Australian folk duo known for their soaring harmonies, unique instrumentation, and heartfelt 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 entirely their own.
The duo has performed at some of Australia’s most renowned folk festivals—including Woodford Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, and Cobargo Folk Festival — and completed five tours of the United States, including performances at Ossipee Valley Music Festival in Maine, and Red Ants Pants Music Festival in Montana, and esteemed listening rooms such as Club Passim and The Purple Fiddle. They’ve shared stages with Adeem the Artist (US), Joe Crookston (US), Vika & Linda Bull (AUS), The Weeping Willows (AUS), Mary Flower (USA), and Kerryn Fields (NZ), among others.
Great Aunt write music from the heart: honestly, tenderly, and often with a sly wink. The Bluegrass Situation (USA) calls them “an Australian duo you need to know,” praising their impressive log of tours, festival shows, and releases. Their music is a joyful and gutsy revival, delivered with warmth, wit, and soul.
Watch and listen: www.greatauntmusic.com
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.
