Woodfordia Inc
presents
Festival of Small Halls Autumn Tour 2022
Port Fairy Folk Festival to the National Folk Festival
featuring Charm of Finches (AUS) and Jack Carty (AUS)
Charm of Finches from Melbourne, Australia, make intricate, dreamy indie folk with many stringed things, awash with seamless blood harmonies traversing melancholy and wonder in equal measure. The sister duo, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, grew up busking old time tunes and singing on festival stages around Australia.
Their 2019 sophomore album Your Company won the 2020 Independent Music Awards’ Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album and was nominated for the 2020 Music Victoria Best Folk Album Award and 2020 Australian Music Prize.
Their music has featured on ABC TV, ABC RN, Triple J, Double J and championed by community radio stations around Australia. They recorded their third full-length album “Wonderful Oblivion” at home while working remotely with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell. It was released in October 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music.
“folk purity…affecting and emotional”
– The Music
“Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches radiates an otherworldly temperament. It’s as if their music and words bear ancient fruits of wisdom from the past, present and future all delicately intertwined to create timeless and masterful compositions that touch the depths of your soul.”
– Earmilk
Prolific Australian songwriter Jack Carty has been making, touring, and releasing original music since 2010. A decade that has seen the release of five full-length studio albums; three EPs; an APRA Professional Development Award; extensive touring across Australia, The UK, North America, Europe, and New Zealand; festivals from Brisbane to Barcelona; co-writes with the likes of Josh Pyke, Dan Wilson (Semisonic), The Once, and Katie Noonan; a #1 independent album; a Top 40 album; and a loyal, grassroots following built on great songs and a powerful live show.
In 2020, following a January on-tour with The Festival of Small Halls and amidst the bushfires, the lockdowns and the uncertainty, Jack released “The World, When It’s Sleeping” – A collection of five songs written and recorded on returning to Australia after two years spent living, writing, recording, and touring in The UK and Europe.
The move home was inspired by Carty’s growing family, and you can hear the joy, the wonder, the vulnerability, and the love in these moody, self-produced indie-folk vignettes. The World When It’s Sleeping is Carty at his, raw, honest best; and there is more to come, with a brand-new album set for released in March 2022.
“Carty might well have found his happy place” ★★★★
– The Sunday Star Times
“A sensational album” ★★★★
– The Weekend Australian
“An album of confession and honesty, but also humour and the sublime” ★★★★
– Sydney Morning Herald
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Woodfordia Inc presents Festival of Small Halls Autumn Tour 2022: Port Fairy to the National featuring Charm of Finches (AUS) and Jack Carty (AUS)
Award-winning indie folk darlings Charm of Finches and prolific singer-songwriter Jack Carty are hitting the road in March for the Festival of Small Halls Autumn Tour 2022, to play community halls across regional Victoria for the first time in three years.
CHARM OF FINCHES (AUS)
Charm of Finches from Melbourne, Australia, make intricate, dreamy indie folk with many stringed things, awash with seamless blood harmonies traversing melancholy and wonder in equal measure. The sister duo, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, grew up busking old time tunes and singing on festival stages around Australia.
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JACK CARTY (AUS)
Prolific Australian songwriter Jack Carty has been making, touring, and releasing original music since 2010. A decade that has seen the release of five full-length studio albums; three EPs; an APRA Professional Development Award; extensive touring across Australia, The UK, North America, Europe, and New Zealand; festivals from Brisbane to Barcelona; co-writes with the likes of Josh Pyke, Dan Wilson (Semisonic), The Once, and Katie Noonan; a #1 independent album; a Top 40 album; and a loyal, grassroots following built on great songs and a powerful live show.
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Festival of Small Halls events take place in venues operating under current government Covid Safe regulations, and has stringent Workplace Health and Safety requirements for all travelling artists and crew. Under the terms and conditions of all events, you must not attend if you have any symptoms of Covid-19.
Please do your bit to protect others and keep your community safe.

The Festival of Small Halls Autumn Tour 2022 is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Festival of Small Halls is also supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative


