
Florist
Florist (USA)
SUPPORTED BY RUBY GILL
November 23, 3:30pm, $51
Florist is the musical project of songwriter Emily Sprague, whose work drifts between the deeply personal and the cosmic, the everyday and the supernatural. Across four full-length albums and numerous collaborations, Sprague has cultivated a body of songs that reflect on memory, change, and the unseen connections that bind people to each other and to the natural world.
The songs of Florist are built around Sprague’s voice and guitar, intimate in tone but expansive in vision. Sometimes that world is quiet and solitary, as heard on the self-reflective Emily Alone. Other times it blooms into something vivid and collaborative, as on the technicolor dreamscape of Jellywish. Whether sparse or full, acoustic or electric, Florist’s music holds a constant sense of wonder and presence - a reminder that love, loss, and transformation are all part of the same shared fabric.
On stage, Florist takes many forms, but at its center is Sprague’s songwriting: delicate, searching, and magnetic. Her songs offer listeners an invitation - to sit inside life’s mysteries, to hold joy and grief at once, and to believe in the quiet magic of existence.
SUPPORTED BY RUBY GILL
If anyone can silence a room, it’s Joburg-born, Naarm-based musician Ruby Gill, whose arresting lyricism and deadpan wit have already garnered millions of streams, awards and radio play from triple j and every major metro station in Australia, to BBC6Music and KCRW over the pond. Known to bring even the most stoic to tears with her profound reflections, Ruby’s “melancholic lyrical wizardry” and unforgettable honesty and humour have earned her the reputation of unmissable, with accolades such as Sunday Times’ Breaking Act (UK) and Emerging Artist of the Year at Port Fairy Folk Festival to her name, and high praise from NME, CLASH, The Independent and more.
Ruby has since appeared on stages around the world, from Oppikoppi to Woodford, silencing rooms on sold-out headline tours and sharing high-profile lineups with the likes of Lime Cordiale, Missy Higgins, Stella Donnelly, Angie McMahon and The Teskey Brothers.