Nigel Wearne

16/07/2025 59 min

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Nigel Wearne has toured Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK and Canada and he's performed at a long list of festivals from MerleFest to both the Cambridge and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, and Bristol Rhythm & Roots. Nigel is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influences such as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones. A deep thinker and truth seeker with a penchant for all things peculiar, he sings of human frailty, grace and the cosmos; songwriting that cuts to the bone.Rolling Stone magazine calls Nigel's music "warmth flecked with grit...and beauty "The Weekend Australian saysNigel's songs showcase "vocal swagger of Van Morrison and the arranging chutzpuh of Ennio Morricone

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