Woodfordia Inc
presents
Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2021
featuring Andrea Kirwin (AUS) and Tullara (AUS)
Andrea Kirwin is an Australian-Fijian Artist/Producer based in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. With a warm stage presence, retro soulful sound and a knack for storytelling, Andrea has been steadily building a national following since the release of her first album, ‘From the Ground Up’ in 2013. Having self-produced five independent albums, she has continued to build a sustainable music career and has now opened up a shopfront for her record label, Peace Run Records, at 14 Queen St, Nambour (Label est. 2009).
Andrea’s unique brand of Island Soul has continued to evolve over the past eight years since she has been recording her original music. Having built her career as a singer-songwriter over the years by gigging up to 300+ shows a year, she has become a seasoned and sought-after performer and is versatile in performing solo or as a trio and up to her full band for Festivals. Andrea’s laidback style of folk-soul-jazz has crystalized in her new album, ‘BLOOM’, which was launched on 1 May 2021, with a full band show at Sunshine Sounds Festival, QLD, curated by Katie Noonan, and is now available for purchase digitally at Bandcamp and on cd and vinyl at www.peacerunrecords.com, and has also recently been released on Streaming platforms
Andrea has been hosting boutique livestream events at Peace Run Records and Agency and in the past 6 months has held a nine hour livestream launch featuring 20 artists, a Blues Night and a Survival Day First nations concert which was co-hosted by Deline Briscoe of Gaba Musik. Andrea hopes to host more livestream shows in the coming months and is currently offering these services in South East QLD for their live shows as well.
Festivals have always been amongst some of Andrea’s favourite music memories having been introduced to the Australian Festival scene early on with her first band, The Andi and George Band, who toured the East coast of Australia Festival hopping in 2008 and playing Woodford Folk Festival, National Multicultural Fringe Festival, WOMADelaide, Folk Rhythm and Life and more.
‘Andrea Kirwin has a rare voice that runs deep… deep enough to carry you back to an era where the way an artist delivered their message was everything.’
– Lior
‘When I heard Andrea, I was totally excited to hear such a competent, unique and exciting new songwriter. It is one of the joys of being a musician, traveling the globe and hearing exciting music that I wouldn’t have found at home, yet it is a rare joy. I find there are many competent yet mediocre musicians out there and Andrea was way above anything I had heard for a long, long time.’
– Kristina Olsen
With her percussive finger tapping, guitar playing wizardry, not to mention the alluring power of her voice, Tullara has an undeniable, uniquely endearing stage presence full of raw, powerful honesty, and swagger. This northern NSW homegrown artist, now based in Townsville, is taking the genre of Folk/Roots to a whole new level.
Tullara has been making her mark across the Australian music industry since her debut release ‘Better Hold On‘ in 2016. Born and raised on a parrot farm in Ramornie, northern NSW (true story), Folk/Roots rocker Tullara went on to win ‘BEST EP’ at the 2017 ‘Australian Roots Music Awards’ and independently hit over 1,000,000 streams on Spotify in 2018.
As her performance rep grew, Tullara won the attention and praise of ARIA Award Winner John Butler who said ‘Tullara has a way with words and a way with that guitar!’, and was invited to open for Aussie legends such as The Waifs, Jeff Lang, Troy Cassar-Daley and Mia Dyson. Soon after, Tullara was chosen as the National Australia Tour support act for international artist Donavon Frankenreiter (USA) and Wallis Bird (IRE), as well as opening for The East Pointers (CAN).
Tullara has since racked up performances at some of the biggest and most respected festivals both in Australia and abroad including: Woodford Folk Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival, Artswells Festival (CAN), LeCheile Festival (IRE), Umefolk (SE), Floating Castle Fesitval (SI), plus many more. Tullara’s highly anticipated follow-up release ‘Waiting for the Encore’ hit the stores and online platforms December 11 2020.
‘I love Tullara – she’s magic.’
– Nkechi Anele (triple j Roots and All)
‘As nimble on guitar as she is vocals, Tullara’s strong performance steadies the song and bubbles up high with a catchy, melodic hook. It’s just as much pop as it is folk/roots, highlighting a penchant for structure that we can’t wait to hear more of when she releases both her forthcoming EPs later this year.’
– Chris Sing (theaureview.com)
‘Breaking Australian artist Tullara found the perfect balance between inviting accessibility and authentic ingenuity with her single 16 Seconds which was released on May 8th. The reflectively moody tone in the Alt Rock single proved to be a synergetic pairing for Tullara’s understated yet profoundly resonant vocals. It’s safe to say that 16 Seconds was the most cathartically connectable perennial Pop earworm we’ve heard this year so far. If she’s not already on it, get her on your radar. She’s undoubtedly one to watch.’
– Amelia Vandergast (anrfactory.com)
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Woodfordia Inc presents Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2021 featuring Andrea Kirwin and Tullara
Festival of Small Halls Australia has announced that Andrea Kirwin and Tullara will be the guests of twenty communities on November’s Queensland Summer Tour 2021.
ANDREA KIRWIN (AUS)
Andrea Kirwin is an Australian-Fijian Artist/Producer based in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. With a warm stage presence, retro soulful sound and a knack for storytelling, Andrea has been steadily building a national following since the release of her first album, ‘From the Ground Up’ in 2013. Having self-produced five independent albums, she has continued to build a sustainable music career and has now opened up a shopfront for her record label, Peace Run Records, at 14 Queen St, Nambour (Label est. 2009).
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TULLARA (AUS)
With her percussive finger tapping, guitar playing wizardry, not to mention the alluring power of her voice, Tullara has an undeniable, uniquely endearing stage presence full of raw, powerful honesty, and swagger. This northern NSW homegrown artist, now based in Townsville, is taking the genre of Folk/Roots to a whole new level.
To download a high quality image, please click here.

Festival of Small Halls events take place in venues operating under an approved Queensland Health Covid-Safe Event Checklist, 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.
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