Umbrella Festival is an open access, live music celebration held in South Australia every year during the winter.
Presented by Music SA, the festival's aim is to champion the local and national music scene while keeping SA buzzing during the colder months.Here are their Top 5 curated events coming up in July, created by some of SA's cultural superstars.
Umbrella Festival Opening Night
For the first time, the Umbrella Festival Opening Night event (1 July) will be held across four Adelaide City venues with each event free.NOLA will host an acoustic folk and alley jazz-fuelled night curated by local troubadour Aidan 'Jazzy' Jones.
The Crown and Anchor will turn into a raucous affair of psych rock and delicious riffs thanks to Going Steady Music.
The Grace Emily will be slinging pub rock and country belters hand-picked by the wonderful Cookie Baker.
And Jive will be singing songs of indie rock brought together by a very special guest.
First Nation Voices
This live show at Nexus (8 July) is a concert-in-the-round featuring three Indigenous artists (tba) performing original songs and sharing their stories of culture and life's journeys.The performance is staged in a fire circle, fuelling the mosaic of our sacred land, where you can identify with cultural stories being shared through generations both past and present.
Enjoy the love for country, an infusion of nomadic soul, wide open plains, colourful urban street blues and rock, cultural dance and traditional cuisine.
Adelaide International Folk Festival
Presented by folk duo Mt Kazoo, this outdoor mini-festival (at Carclew Grounds 23 July) will be the first of its kind in Adelaide to showcase global musical traditions right in our backyard.Here you'll experience unique instruments, sounds and stories played by top-tier musicians hailing from Japan to Ukraine, as well as those with roots in traditional Australian and colonial music.
Whether you hope to be enchanted by otherworldly melodies or just want to throw down in a hoedown, this celebration of diversity and culture should not be missed.
MUD Carnival Improvisation Festival
A multidisciplinary exploration by visual artists, musicians, ritual artists and dancers, featuring installations and performances that will retrieve our right to the transcendent worlds of pleasure, grief and terror from the parasitic class of billionaire scumbags.MUD, an Adelaide-based arts initiative that promotes the works of performing artists that extend the boundaries of their respective practice, presents a larger scale show for Umbrella (at Ancient World 28 July), celebrating the art of improvisation and experimental art forms.
Woolly Mammoth
Get ready to open up your closets and dust off your fluffy coats because Uncle Mum and Umbrella Festival are excited to announce Adelaide's favourite winter-warmer festival Woolly Mammoth 2022.Highlighting the best Australian indie rock talent to light that fire inside, Woolly Mammoth will present 12 acts on the UniBar Adelaide stage (9 July).
Headlined by dream pop acts EGOSIM and Montgomery, this year's edition will boast one of its most diverse line-ups.
2022 Umbrella Festival runs throughout Adelaide and regional South Australia 1-31 July.
