THE MAES - "Abreast" Album Release Tour
Liv Greene (USA) + Midnight Chicken
The Hamilton Station Hotel (Islington, NSW)
Wednesday, 29 October 2025 8:00 pm
The Maes bring modern folk to life with lush harmonies and acoustic mastery on guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo. Born in Central Victoria, the sisters grew up immersed in a melting pot of music from around the world washed up on stolen land.
The Maes are outstanding live, with engaging storytelling and spine-tingling harmonies. The sisters draw their audience in like your sweetest and scariest friend. With echoes of Gillian Welch and The Waifs, there is a timeless luminescence and simplicity to the songwriting and sound of Maggie and Elsie Rigby. As well as selling out headline shows around the country and overseas, their international festival appearances include appearances at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival (USA) Edmonton Folk Festival (Canada) Orkney Folk Festival (UK) and Woodford Folk Festival (Aus).
The band's fourth studio album, Abreast is coming out in July of 2025 and will be supported by a tour of the UK opening for Grace Petrie as well as playing the
Shetland and Orkney Folk Festivals. The Maes are also celebrating the album's release by curating a one-day folk-festival-style event, Abreastival in Castlemaine's
iconic Theatre Royal. The band's previous albums, 2019's self titled record and 2017's Take Care, Take Cover won the Music Victoria, Folk/Roots Album of the Year among a host of other accolades.
‘The Maes folk/pop sensibility is alluring. I'm a sucker for harmonies and these girls cover this ground with such bluegrass perfection, it makes me realise so many styles of our music grow from the same old tree - we are merely branches away from each other.’ – Troy Cassar-Daley
The Maes are outstanding live, with engaging storytelling and spine-tingling harmonies. The sisters draw their audience in like your sweetest and scariest friend. With echoes of Gillian Welch and The Waifs, there is a timeless luminescence and simplicity to the songwriting and sound of Maggie and Elsie Rigby. As well as selling out headline shows around the country and overseas, their international festival appearances include appearances at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival (USA) Edmonton Folk Festival (Canada) Orkney Folk Festival (UK) and Woodford Folk Festival (Aus).
The band's fourth studio album, Abreast is coming out in July of 2025 and will be supported by a tour of the UK opening for Grace Petrie as well as playing the
Shetland and Orkney Folk Festivals. The Maes are also celebrating the album's release by curating a one-day folk-festival-style event, Abreastival in Castlemaine's
iconic Theatre Royal. The band's previous albums, 2019's self titled record and 2017's Take Care, Take Cover won the Music Victoria, Folk/Roots Album of the Year among a host of other accolades.
‘The Maes folk/pop sensibility is alluring. I'm a sucker for harmonies and these girls cover this ground with such bluegrass perfection, it makes me realise so many styles of our music grow from the same old tree - we are merely branches away from each other.’ – Troy Cassar-Daley