The Red Tails (WA) | Kangaroos With Machine Guns (WA) | Elly McK & The Unbelievers (VIC) | Adele Oliver (WA) | Misty Harlowe (VIC) | Ange Boxall (TAS) | Tanya Ransom (WA) | Charlie Mgee (WA) | The Gray Brothers (WA) | Savanah Solomon (WA) | Polly Medlen Band (WA) | The Polite Society (WA) | Rachael Dease (WA) nightfall set
Olive Mae | The Jig Is Up | The Stumblers | our legendary house band Stack of Bibles | plus DJ Joe West playing all vinyl classics | Annie Johnson | Pete Godden
and the return of…. The Wilds (WA)
Playing times coming soon! Follow our socials for these, plus more artist info and links.
The Red Tails
Our 2026 NewFarm, New Country headliners come from right here in WA’s Great Southern, in Kinjarling, the Port of Albany. Formed in 2020-21 and already widely loved, The Red Tails are a collaboration between neighbours Vikki Thorn (The Waifs, Thornbird), Simon London (The Spirits) and Tammy London (who performed with her band at NewFarm, New Country in 2025). Captivating audiences across WA, with songs that began on the porch, The Red Tails play the stunning ‘sunset set’ on Saturday’s Main Stage. We literally cannot wait.
The band’s self-titled debut features 10 tracks penned by all three artists, who also share lead vocals over the collection, sharing duties on guitars, piano and harmonica.
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Kangaroos with Machine Guns
Kangaroos with Machine Guns is the Top Secret Training Camp Band dedicated to righting the wrongs and turning the tables in the nightly fight of Beast versus Machine. Their Mission is to, ahem, provide high powered weaponry and training to every Kangaroo in Australia. And bring the music that we all need.
‘KMWG’ will round out Sunday morning’s sessions, to send us all on our way with cups and hearts full.
The band had this to say on the topic of musical expression:
show more“Music is the union between the personal internal world and the mystical. Kangaroos with machine guns is a band that does not rehearse or write set lists. We are driven by the glittering, glistening moment of creation.”
They are not perfect but there is a freshness and vibrancy akin to a lightning strike, or a first or last breath. Turn the lights down low and let the music wash over and through you.
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Elly McK & The Unbelievers
Elly McK & The Unbelievers are a Melbourne/Naarm based alt-country quartet composed of Elly McKinnon (vocals), Sam Price (drums), Jordy Hickey (double bass) and Monty Price (guitar). Smooth moves between country grooves, rootsy rock and heartfelt balladry, the Unbelievers have built a reputation for powerful and deeply personal on-the-fly performances. In their first ever visit west to WA, they’ll rock our Main Stage on Saturday night, and be perfect for some two-steppin’ and hell, even some line-dancing 2026 style, if ya so like.
show moreThe latest single from the band’s forthcoming debut album, I Am The River, arose from a co-writing session with award winning country artist Lyn Bowtell at her all-female song-writing retreat – a brooding, harmony-rich track which swells into a surge of reckoning.
Combining heartfelt songwriting, captivating stage presence and exceptional musicianship, Elly McK & the Unbelievers deliver a live experience that lingers long after the final note.
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Adele Oliver (Friday Night)
Adele Oliver brings the raw essence of the Kimberley to her earthy folk/alt-country sound. Originally from the Wheatbelt and raised in Rubibi/Broome, Adele’s music is shaped by the red dirt and milky blue waters of her home. With a warm voice that captivates and intrigues, her songs explore life in all its forms, from gritty alt-country stompers to tender ballads, exploring love, resilience and the rhythms of regional life. Adele will kick off the weekend with Friday’s ‘Sunset Set’ on the rocks – and maybe, just maybe, join us again later on.
show moreStorytelling has always been at the heart of Adele’s music, drawing inspiration from artists like the Pigram Brothers, The Waifs and Kasey Chambers – all voices that shaped her from a young age and that still guide her sound today.
After an early stint in Perth playing gigs and honing her craft, Adele found her true voice in Fitzroy Crossing, deep in the Central Kimberley. Amongst the spinifex plains and dry riverbed of the Martuwarra/Fitzroy River she wrote the songs for her 2019 debut single Don’t Take My Blues Away and her 2021 From the River EP. Then, 2024 marked a breakthrough year with her second EP To Home and Heartbreak earning national airplay and first single Wiley Blue debuted at #24 on the Country Songs Top 40 Australian Airplay chart and won Adele WA’s ‘Songwriter of the Year’ at the Western Australian Country Music Awards. Follow-up single Home Tonight climbed to #10 on the AMRAP Regional Charts.
With national touring experience and recognition including multiple WACMAs, Adele has shared her music across stages and airwaves around the country, steadily building a reputation as a compelling voice in Australian folk/country.
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Misty Harlowe
Misty Harlowe hails from the Snowy River region in Victoria. If Stevie Nicks & US country music legend Marty Robbins wrote a song around a campfire, it would emulate Misty Harlowe’s sound. Shimmering across the stage with her guitar, single-handedly charming the audience with her endearing presence and velvety voice, Misty has supported artists like Ella Hooper, Jim Lauderdale, C.W. Stoneking and The Davidson Brothers. Drawing from country roots, her music entails stories of land, fearless fortitude, heartache and lust with a western flair.
show moreShe’s played at notable festivals, including The Tamworth Country Music Festival, Dashville Skyline Festival, Loch Hart Music Festival, Bruthen Blues Festival, The Lake Charlegrark Country Music Marathon and Tasmania’s ‘Day at The Creek’, and now brings her sweet sounds to NewFarm, New Country.
Recently returning from writing and recording in Nashville, she’s unleashed the next chapter of her artistry with debut EP tour ‘Welcome to the Wild West’, and recent cracker single “Come To Me Darlin’”. Just listen to that velvety voice.
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Ange Boxall
Mix: “1 part English Rose, 1 Part Tasmanian Devil, 1 part gin-soaked Southern Belle”. The result is Ange Boxall’s rich vivid imagery and heartfelt narratives, which have taken her from her birthplace in Tasmania’s East Coast to London, Nashville and beyond, recording with the likes of Grammy award winner Jim Lauderdale, the late US legend J.D. Souther (Eagles, Linda Ronstadt), and the late Bones Hillman of Midnight Oil fame. And she actually makes gin, on Tasmania’s eastern coast.
show moreBringing together tales from her small island story, Ange weaves its natural beauty and complex cultural landscapes into song, drawing on a range of genres – country, folk and pop – all the whilte channelling the spirit of legendary female songwriters of the 1970s.
Ange’s latest album, Skipping Stone, was produced by Paul McKercher and legendary Tasmanian blues musician Pete Cornelius, debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts. She’s since shared stages with Ron Sexsmith, J.D. Souther, Damien Leith and Icehouse, performing at SxSW Austin, MONA Musuem and AmericanaFest which occurs annually in Nashville, TN.
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The Wilds
The Wilds are a roguish rag-tag bunch of scallywags: Luke Dux (guitar) & Todd Pickett (drums) on loan from The Kill Devil Hills; Dan Carroll (guitar) pried from The Southern River Band (maybe); John Wilson (bass) stolen from The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly; while Tom Garvey (keyboards) appears courtesy of daughter Edie, and Ben Power (sax) on behalf of his dog, Bob. Bonded in beer and blood, united by the noble aim to amplify lead singer Chris Davis’ simple and beautiful songs beyond the humble hay shed.
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Tanya Ransom
Tanya Ransom is an award-winning WA songwriter whose cinematic and heartfelt songs blend alt-country and folk with quiet emotional power. After two decades in the remote NW, Tanya now resides on Wadandi Boodja in WA’s South West, where the landscapes and stories of both regions still shape her evocative songwriting. Accompanied by her incredible band of WA musicians, Dave Mann, Tilly Kay, Charlie Jones and Sam Liddon, they are together captivating audiences nationwide with soaring harmonies and driving rhythms.
show moreExpect something special on the Main Stage omn Saturday.
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The Gray Brothers
Albert and Elwood Gray were inseparable from each other and their musical instruments at an early age. The brothers got their early start busking at Broome’s Courthouse Markets, breaking into the local scene with a medley of folk-alt-country that endeared them to Sunday shoppers. From the Rububi / Broome pindan and mudflats, The Gray Brothers have since established a solid reputation for unique blood harmonies, carefully crafted songs, twin guitars, warm stage banter and dynamic mandolin-guitar interplay. It’s seen them burst off the busking scene onto stages, backyards & intimate venues.
show moreThe Gray Brothers released their debut EP “Live at Prospect Studios” in 2025, and have shared lineups with WA luminaries John Butler and Stephen Pigram. Loved in Denmark, shows at Scotsdale Hall on previous tours have been mesmerising.
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Charlie Mgee (Sunday)
‘Make Compost, Not War‘. Charlie Mgee realised from an early age that it doesn’t take a whole lot to be happy — all you need is a couple of chickens, a rainwater tank, a veggie garden, one dunny that don’t flush – and a 100W solar panel fixed to an old tin shed. Thereafter, from his south-west dwelling, Charlie has established himself as a multi-talented songwriter, ukulele-player, permaculturalist and founder of the world-renowned ecological funk/swing band, Formidable Vegetable. Expect to learn as much about permaculture as how to really play a uke.
show moreMgee’s latest album with Formidable Vegetable, Micro Biome, produced by Spoonbill, James Newhouse & Tim Bennett, dives into all things Earth, featuring an orchestra of horns, clarinets, violins, guitars and a slew of synthesisers. Mgee’s commitment to creating catchy family-friendly tunes earned his band Best Album in 2023 at The Australian Children’s Music Awards.
Mgee has since crossed global stages, featuring at Glastonbury Festival alongside Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran and The Rolling Stones, continuing to inspire international audiences with the importance of community, regenerative gardens, sustainable living and sowing the seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.
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The Polite Society
Perth’s The Polite Society are a band of brothers, combining rock, blues and country styles, with lashings of pedal steel. Their debut self-titled EP bristles with tracks that are both gentle and explosive, and in live form the full six-piece are no strangers to making the stage their own. Comprised of Hurb Jephasun on guitar and vocals, Phil Bradley and Shaun Corlson each on guitar, Pete Lisiewich on bass and Jeremy Threlfall on the weeping, wailing pedal steel. Newcomer Nigel Bird (Polly Medlen Band, Ralway Bell) has taken up tub duties following the sad passing of Tony Pola (Beasts of Bourbon) in 2021.
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Savanah Solomon
Savanah Solomon is an award-winning WA singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Derby, Savanah’s songwriting inevitably found its inspiration in the wide red plains and abundant oceans of the Kimberley. Drawing upon place, landscapes, people and experiences, her songs cut through with deeply evocative ground and rich emotional honesty. Blending country, folk and rock influences, Savanah’s music is warm, heartfelt and, most importantly, human. Her music is the kind that can really stay with you, for both message and melody.
show moreFirst bursting onto the scene back in 2016 with her band Savanah and the Strays, cutting her teeth at rodeos and country festivals across WA, audiences fast found her style irresistible. Debut album, Salt of the Earth, earned a finalist nomination as Album of the Year at the Western Australian Country Music Awards and Best Country Act at the WAM Awards. Her most recent single, Someday Somewhere, produced by Josh Dyson, marks a powerful new chapter and has earned Savanah nationwide airplay on ABC Country.
Described by Rose Parker as the love child of Jewel and Joni Mitchell, Savanah’s ability to evoke far horizons, crackling campfires and a sense of peace amongst the maelstrom of modern life has deservedly placed her up in the echelons of WA country music.
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Rachael Dease
Rachael Dease is no stranger to Perth’s artistic scene, nor to its music. She was a member of beloved Perth band Schvendes for many years, and her first solo album Hymns For End Times was performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for the 2021 Perth Festival. Her artistic practice includes performance, art music, dance and theatre scores, installation and songwriting. Bringing a very special performance to the main stage at NewFarm, New Country, at nightfall Saturday eve, Rachael will reinterpret some of her favourite folk songs amongst her own compositions. This will be a set to savour.
show moreWhile her own music projects have garnered critical acclaim and multiple awards, Dease’s biggest love is collaboration – creating both large and small scale works across genres. She has frequently scored for Black Swan State Theatre Company, Belvoir, Malthouse and Sydney Theatre Company, as well as various dance companies and arts festivals. She has been a frequent co-creator with Maxine Doyle (PunchDrunk) and Es Devlin – including Here Not Here for Gothenburg Opera Dance Company and Salamander for Brisbane Festival. In 2026 her projects have included original scores for Eisenhower Dance Company Detroit, Venice Biennale and Dark Mofo.
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Polly Medlen Band
Growing up on a farm in the South West and raised listening to Dolly Parton, Polly Medlen built her reputation across the WA regional music scene before releasing her debut solo album, Easier to Run, and EP Hotel Loves. Now re-united with her band of working-dog musicians — Nigel Bird on drums, Tom Fisher on bass, and duo guitar slingers Kilian Albrecht and Lee Jones — the Polly Medlen Band is back, and set for a show charged with ringing Americana guitars and gut-punching songs about life & love gone wrong, and now wearing the scars to prove it.
show moreIf you enjoyed Polly’s solo opening set to NewFarm, New Country 2025, this year it just gets better!
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Stack of Bibles (Friday, Sunday)
Some say these Bibles fellas are corn-fed and have hearts of corrugated coal, with towering tales of epic conundrums….. Others say it’s the relatability of suburban mediocrity and unrealised sporting dreams that really hits ya in the guts. Either way, the fabulous Stack of Bibles show is not to be missed. Joining us on Friday Night as our beloved ‘house band’ for the Country/FolKwiz, and then returning to the main stage on Sunday morning to ease all those ills of Saturday night. It wouldn’t be NewFarm, New Country without the Bibles on hand.
show moreHolding true to their “annual single release”, the Bibles have just dropped the true tale ‘Bob N Bonnie‘, well worth a listen.
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Olive Mae
Hailing from her beloved country town home of Cowaranup in WA’s South-West, Olive Mae has come a long way from the five year old girl who brought a tiny violin home from school one afternoon. Family is at the very heart of Olive’s music, and her exceptional storytelling brings the characters from her country upbringing to life – songs like “El Caballo Blanco” , the tales of her legendary grandfather, entrepreneur Ray Williams, who brought the first Spanish horses to Wooroloo back in 1972, and most recent single “Country Songs“.
show moreIt’s horses and singing country music that make up Olive’s world, and she’s travelled Australia doing just that, deftly turning family caravan holidays into epic nationwide tours. She’s shared stages with Angus & Julia Stone, Boy & Bear and Vika & Linda Bull. In 2025, Olive graduated from the CMAA Academy of Country Music, refining her craft under the guidance of Sara Storer, Gretta Ziller and Lyn Bowtell.
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The Jig Is Up
The Jig Is Up is a lively three-piece band from Denmark, WA, comprised of Poppy, Evie and Sienna. Bringing the spirit of traditional Celtic music to life with upbeat jigs, reels, and contemporary folk songs, they’ve been playing together for the past three years, sharing their love of the genres through energetic toe-tapping performances. Well known and loved in Denmark, Sienna played NewFarm, New Country solo in 2025, and the trio supported Walpole duo Oceanique on their 2025 SW tour, and played Albany Folk & Shanty Fest in ’25 and ’26, amongst many other shows. The Jig Is Up’s star is on the rise!
show moreThe Jig Is Up will be on our Main Stage to kick off Saturday.
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The Stumblers
The Stumblers are a fresh 6 piece Perth powerhouse, where Americana meets Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty. Fronted by husband and wife team Sarah Sands (banjo, guitar, Dobro) and Dan Durack (guitar, mandolin), songwriting inspiration comes via the domestic bliss of married life, and other comical ideas. With a stable of catchy, witty, upbeat duets favouring sweet harmonies, lilting piano and furious fiddle, they’re ready for NewFarm, New Country, hot on the heels of a run of Perth gigs.
show moreSarah’s own country roots run deep, passed on from her father through her musical family. Then, 12 years ago she partnered in life with Perth heavy rocker, Dan Durack (Three Orange Whips, Tenderhooks), and spent 11 of those years convincing Dan that country music wasn’t all Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain. In 2025, their musical endeavour was blessed with the addition of three classically trained but folk-loving musicians in Becky Lodge (fiddle), Kirsty Ploeg (piano) and Fee Kanters (violin – but convinced to play bass because they were kinda similar and who ever heard of two violinists!) and local legend Stevie Rea (Good News Now We Can Eat All The Vampires) taking that ol’ country 2-4 into the stratosphere on the drums.
Also, Sarah’s brother Chris plays sometimes, being a way more accomplished guitarist out of the two (Sarah wrote this in order to persuade Chris to join The Stumblers at NewFarm).
A lifelong dream of forming the ultimate country band has finally been realised, and is now blasting freshly penned bangers all across venues in the fair state of WA.
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DJ Joe West
The man in the hat is back. Everyone’s favourite cowboy DJ returns to NewFarm, New Country this year, saddle bags absolutely packed with vintage vinyl. DJ Joe West will be our Saturday and Sunday morning musical awakening, giving us all a kick in our step as we start the day. Saturday morning’s “Morning Cup o’ Joe” in the Campground, and Sunday’s “Rise n’ Shine” on the Main Stage. You’re gonna dig it!
show moreJoe inherited a dusty treasure trove of classic vinyl from his late father, setting him on a journey through the highways and the honky tonks of 1970s Americana contained therein. He’s since spent the last decade digging in the dirt of op shops and record fairs, building on that paternal collection and sharing it at various dive bars in Perth and Fremantle.
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Annie Johnson
Albany’s Annie Johnson brings some true country to NewFarm this year. Not only is Annie the namesake of Slim Dusty’s tune, but she gigs up and down WA both solo and with band, playing the country music and festival circuit like a rattlesnake. That is to say, always on the move. Annie will bring a set of her own originals to NewFarm, New Country, throwing loose the lasso of ‘strictly covers’ too often required by country music scenes.
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Pete Godden
Pete Godden hails from Margaret River, but he’s of the Earth. Writing and performing music for 5 decades, in a style which mixes country, folk and a touch of tribal, Pete’s storytelling is as much in song as in word. Playing a Friday night ‘campfire’ set, he’ll bring stories of earth, stars and journeying. “All of my songs have a story or dreaming behind them, so my intro to a song, and telling the tale of how it came about, is an integral part of my music and culture“, Pete says. Wind down into your weekend with Pete’s sun and surf-weathered musical tales.
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