March 12th, 2024Get set to drink in One Part Gin

Ballarat-based duo One Part Gin like to play dark folk music that’s splattered with grit and gloom.

They do not apologise for that, nor for the fact that melodies and pain collide as you follow in the forlorn footsteps of fools and freaks.

This duo consists of Sam Bell on guitar and vocals and Holly Sewell on vocals and ukulele, and they’re headed to Clunes to bring their sound to this month’s Book Town festival where they invite their audience to “sink yourself into narratives that interweave throughout a family tree that roots itself in dirt filled with blood, tears, grief and hope”.

They also suggest that you may want to “grab a whiskey shot, shed a tear and surround yourself with stories of cursed convicts and deceitful drunks”.

If you haven’t caught them live to date, this talented duo has a sound that may well remind you of Graveyard Train, Tom Waits, Dead South, Toot Toot Toots, Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann.

They’ll be performing at this month’s Book Town festival in Clunes at the town’s central rotunda venue on Saturday March 23 from 11.45am-12.30pm and then again on Sunday March 24 from 10.30am to 11.15am.