Festival Hub Esplanade Main Stage
6.15pm - 7.15pm: Zipporah
7.30pm - 8.30pm: Empress
8.45pm - 9.45pm: Blusher
The future never looked so… female! With Zipporah Anu, Empress and headline Blusher, this night we celebrate the best Australia has to offer, right on our Festival Hub Esplanade Main Stage.
Blusher are a Melbourne supergroup poised to become your new favourite pop band. Unfiltered lyricism peppered over dreamy synths and thick baselines lands the Blusher sound somewhere between late-night solitude and a 2am dance floor.
Based in Naarm, the 6-piece electro-pop collective "Empress" is characterized by infectious melodies, lush harmonies, and a sonic soundscape narrated by three striking and unique voices in the Melbourne music scene. Empress has toured the East Coast and performed at festivals including Sun Cycle, Dark Mofo, St Kilda Festival, and PANAMA. Their live performances are renowned for the enchanting vocal synergy and dynamic energy they bring to the stage.
Born into the entertainment industry to beloved performers, Zipporah’s earliest core memories have been formed in rehearsal rooms, venues and on stages around the country. A proud Samu and Suy woman from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, Zipporah has walked between two worlds – embracing both sides of her Torres Strait / Australian heritage - to build a career that has always kept her culture front of mind.