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.Mardi Lumsden and the Rising Seas have also performed as part of the illustrious Picasso Up Late series at the Gallery of Modern Art, the LiveSpark series at the Brisbane Powerhouse and the 2008 Fete de la Musique festival in Brisbane.Lumsden was one of twenty songwriters chosen to participate in the 2008 Songs of Applewood retreat and recording which was launched during Bigsound 2008.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.She co-owns indie record label Wallflower Records with Catriona MacIvor.If you like what you hear, grab a copy of Mardi's EP Going is Finding at the Wallflower Records Etsy Store! You can also drop in to Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane City or Polyester Records in Fitzroy, Melbourne.Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM
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