biography

"warmth flecked with grit" – 4 STARS Rolling Stone

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Nigel Wearne saunters after dark in the music of the night, blending blues, jazz and Americana-noir. Hailing from Gunditjmara country in the deep south of Australia, he's a guitarist & multi-instrumentalist with diverse influences such as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones.

Nigel has toured Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK, Ireland and Canada and performed at some of the world's most prestigious music festivals including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (USA), MerleFest (USA), Cambridge Folk Festival (UK), Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion (USA), Woodford Folk Festival (AUS), 30A Songwriters Festival (USA), Clonakilty International. Guitar Festival (IRE) and Philadelphia Folk Festival (USA).
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His 2023 album, The Reckoning received back-to-back nominations for Best Blues Work at the 2023 & 2024 Music Victoria Awards and a 4-STAR review in The Australian. A deep thinker and truth speaker with a penchant for all things peculiar, he sings of human frailty, grace & the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone.

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