Mardi Lumsden
Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Mardi Lumsden has a simple, truthful alt-folk style where she tells stories using instruments such as the melodica and the banjo-mandoli ( picked up on her various travels).
Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Mardi Lumsden has been playing in her home town since 2002. Her simple, truthful alt-folk tells stories using instruments such as the melodica and the banjo-mandolin, picked up on her various travels.
Lumsden released her long awaited debut EP 'Going is Finding' in June 2007. 'Going is Finding' received rave reviews in local press with one critic describing it as ‘a cute little package of folk, acoustic and pop telling life stories through the eyes of a child... but with the mature, sorrowful voice of Mardi Lumsden’. (Rave Magazine).
In 2008 she performed in London and Dublin and did an Australian East Coast tour with friends The Morning Papers and Chris Pickering.
The Rising Seas comprises Andrew Pennay (The Australian Voices) on banjo, melodica and other small instruments, David Callanan (Cloud Run, The Hopesmiths Project) on guitar, mandolin and glockenspeil, Jane McEniery on double bass, and Anthony Lawrence (The Villains Of Wilhelm) on drums. A lover of live music, Lumsden is also a journalist, has written a university thesis on the workings of the music street press, and currently presents a segment on Brisbane music on ABC local radio.
