Local Roots

12 Apr 2019

Live Jam Session With Merpire

Jam Session

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It’s time for a Local Roots Live Jam Session with Merpire!

Each week we bring an artist into the studio to delve deeper into everything about them, and get them to perform a few tracks live-to-air for you. It’s like a live concert in your car, bathroom or really anywhere you listen to the radio!

2018 was an undeniably huge year for Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt. The brain behind transfixing nom de guerre Merpire, Rhiannon has quickly grown from nascent head-turner to powerful frontrunner of the local indie-pop scene.

Nestling into her new Melbourne home, the past 12 months have seen Merpire release her debut EP Endless Chatter and play a slew of noteworthy live shows including a sold-out EP launch at The Gasometer Hotel. She has supported the likes of Angie McMahon, Olympia, Phantastic Ferniture, Oh Pep! and more, and recently played her biggest run of shows to date supporting Didirri on his National ‘Measurements’ Tour.

Merpire stopped by the Local Roots studio for our first ever Jam Session.

Time to get cosy, grab a tea and enjoy the amazing vocals of this very talented artist.

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Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to localroots@joy.org.au – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

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