A casual summery showcase for a wide range of musicians and performers. Watch and listen. Eat and drink. Dance. 

Royal Park, Launceston

Royal Park

Launceston: 21 January

Launceston Mofo Sesh

Mofo Sessions

Launceston: 22 January

*Mofo Sessions*  
Saturday 22 January, doors 5pm

__7pm__  

A sizeable ensemble featuring some of Australia and Tassie’s elite musical talents in what Christopher calls ‘a Springsteen-esque Australiana rock thing nodding at The Go-Betweens, Midnight Oil and Paul Kelly.’ Sounds good.

A moodily-lit man's face. He's wearing a dark, luxuriously-textured scarf and looking at someone just past you, on his way to a smile. She-oak fronds hang behind him.

Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape	MSL

Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape

*Mofo Sessions*  
Friday 21 January, doors 5pm

__6pm__  

pakana performer Denni Proctor—joined by Greeley, DJ Dameza, and a rotating squad of accomplices—presents pieces from her newest EP: an almost—chaotic collection held together by her colourful voice and storytelling, as well as some older works and whatever fun her special guests bring.

A woman with luxuriously tattooed arms sits with her hands joined beneath her chin, elbows on her knees. She is wearing a brash red beret and large red sunglasses with no frames. There's a red oil barrel in the background.

Growing Pains

DENNI

__8.15pm__  

Welsh-Cornish musician Gwenno returns to Australia—this time performing an intimate electronic solo set of Cornish and Welsh-language songs.

Gwenno MSL

Gwenno

__6pm__

Launceston-local and jazz-rock savant Jason Whatley presents a tribute to the incomparable genius of Thelonious Monk.

A Monk Tribute

Jason Whatley Quartet 

__9.45pm__  

Raw, explorative black metal from a Naarm three-piece influenced by Nusantara and ancient Javanese traditions. Let your hair down.

KILAT

Dreamy, sparkling narrative-driven pop-gems from Darwin singer-songwriter Leah. She’ll play a set of her own work then join Midnight Oil.

Midnight Oil special guest

Leah Flanagan

Fresh off the release of her latest album—the raw, inward-looking *First Time Really Feeling*—Melbourne-born singer and guitarist Liz brings her emotive and powerful live energy to the stage: first for a solo performance and then with Midnight Oil.


Liz Stringer

*I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.*  
—Oscar Wilde

It's Midnight Oil, on their final concert tour.

They'll be doing shows in each city, playing songs from their forthcoming new album *Resist*, recent music from *The Makarrata Project* (inspired by the Uluru Statement from the Heart), as well as plenty of their classics. Just don't miss this chance.  

With special guests [Liz Stringer](/program/liz-stringer-l) and [Leah Flanagan](/program/leah-flanagan-l).

Launceston

MO Launceston

Midnight Oil

*Mofo Sessions*  
Saturday 22 January,	doors 5pm

__9.30pm__  

One of Australia’s most exciting and adored new singer-songwriters brings their deep, intimate explorations of family, identity, and vulnerability to the stage, where they offer up ‘music as an antidote to sadness.’

Mo'Ju

__7.15pm__  

Saxophone quartet led by ex-New Yorker Phillip Johnston—featuring Tasmanians Danny Healy, Spike Mason and Tristan Meffre—play a suite of tunes by Steve Lacy (originally released as Saxophone Special), plus a handful of other Lacy works and originals of Phillip’s own. Plenty of saxophone, plenty of special.

Saxophone Special

Prospectus Saxophone Quartet

__8.45pm__  

An assemblage of new and old surf footage and ephemera from Tassie film maker, designer and pro surfer Dion Agius, accompanied by a spontaneously composed live surf-rock soundtrack from Brian Ritchie and Associates. The band will be seeing the footage for the first time, guaranteeing truly responsive improvisation.

mONa fOma

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