Australian Folk/Bluegrass/Americana Duo, The Weeping Willows UK July 2025 Tour. http://www.theweepingwillows.com.au/. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7pMy5C_Ng&t=22s
3 x CMAA ‘Golden Guitar’ and 2021 ‘Australian Folk Music’ and ‘Music Victoria’ award winners, Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth are a couple of old souls, steeped in Bluegrass tradition and draped in Gothic Americana imagery. They regale their audiences with stories of sunshine and romance, God and The Devil, murder and decay. Real music.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️s – “Australian alt. country at its near-finest…” – Rolling Stone.
“If you enjoy a good ghost story, scary movie, and your acoustic music edged in black, you’ll enjoy The Weeping Willows.” – Bluegrass Unlimited.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️s – “…up there with the finest Americana music you’ll hear this year.” – The Music.
The Weeping Willows are playing:
3rd July. Kitchen Garden Cafe, 17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham. B14 7SA. Doors: 19:30. Tickets: £14.30. Box Office: 0121 443 4725.
Every song penned by The Weeping Willows is a love song. They’d deny that, of course. These tracks, they’d claim, are works of imagination – tales of cruelty, tragedy, murder and betrayal, all populated by gamblers, sinners, infidels and travelling salesmen (read: wandering musicians). Ask Andy or Laura to define their work and they’d probably hit you with phrases like “cautionary tales”, “murder ballads” or simply “folk songs”, but in truth these are love songs – each and every one of them.
How are they love songs, you ask? Because The Weeping Willows are lovers – they are devoted to each other and to the life of the artist in seemingly equal measure. Have you seen them perform together? Have you seen the knowing glances they exchange as they harmonise their eerie, at times surreal lyrics over Andy’s patient, timeless ¾ strum? Think back to those performances, those moments of chemistry in its purist form, then try to convince yourself that The Weeping Willows were not singing a love song. Every note plucked or sung by Andy and Laura is a work of love. Every dark hour spent huddled together refining their sound in the dimly-lit backroom of their home on the Southern outskirts of Melbourne is a labour of love.
3 x CMAA ‘Golden Guitar’, 2 x Australian Folk Music and Music Victoria Award winners, The Weeping Willows (Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth) are a couple of old souls, steeped in Bluegrass tradition and draped in Gothic Americana imagery. They regale their audiences with stories of sunshine and romance, God and The Devil, murder and decay. Real music.
The last 5 years have seen The Weeping Willows nominated for 14 x CMAA ‘Golden Guitar’ awards, 7 x Australian Folk Music Awards (AFMAs), 4 x Country Music Channel (CMC) awards, 2 x National Live Music Awards (NLMAs), performing Official Showcases at AmericanaFest (USA) and Folk Alliance International (USA) and appearing at Maverick Festival, Knutsford Music Festival, Beardy Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival (AU), Queenscliff Music Festival (AU) and the Australian Americana Music Honours. In recent years they have supported Lukas Nelson & POTR (USA), Hayes Carll (USA), Iris DeMent (USA), Willie Watson (USA), Eilen Jewell (USA) and Katherine Priddy (UK) and completed national and international tours in support of their three LPs, including sophomore album, Before Darkness Comes A-Callin’, which received four-star reviews in Rolling Stone, The Australian and The Music. A Weeping Willows performance, whether live on location or caught on tape will always delight.
“…a mature, courageous and beguiling experience.” – No Depression (USA)
“…on the way to making some serious waves in Americana.” – AmericanaUK (UK)
“…stunning acoustic guitar work, heavenly harmonies, and a haunting melody rooted in American Gothic.” – Pop Matters (USA)
★★★★ – Rolling Stone, Rhythms Magazine, The Music and The Australian.