Support acts join WOMADelaide line-up for 2021 concerts

ARIA Award winning Australian singers Kaiit and Miiesha are among acts joining the line-up for WOMADelaide’s series of concerts in King Rodney Park.

Adelaide duo Siberian Tiger, alias Chris Panousakis and Bree Tranter, will support Midnight Oil and The Teskey Brothers at WOMADelaide. Picture: Supplied

More acts have been announced for WOMADelaide’s series of four evening concerts at King Rodney Park as part of this year’s Adelaide Festival.

Papua New Guinea born, Melbourne based soul singer Kaiit and Pitjantjatjara/Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter Miiesha will perform before Tash Sultana on March 7.

They replace Zambian-born rapper Sampa The Great, who last week cancelled her February-March Australian tour dates.

Pitjantjatjara/Torres Strait Islander artist Miiesha. Picture: Supplied by WOMADelaide

PNG-born, Melbourne-based artist Kaiit. Picture: Supplied by WOMADelaide

Kaiit returns to WOMADelaide after a two-year absence, having since won the 2019 ARIA Award for Best Soul/R&B Release with her track Miss Shiney.

Her passion for jazz, soul and hip-hop is so evident in her music that US neo-soul queens Jill Scott and Erykah Badu claimed her on Instagram as their “musical love child from Down Under”.

Inspired by R&B, gospel and soul and the potency of spoken word poetry, Miiesha’s debut Nyaaringu won the 2020 ARIA Award for Best Soul/R&B Release and was voted Album of the Year by themusic.com.au and NME.

“We are overjoyed to now have three incredibly talented artists – all in their early 20s, but who’ve already achieved so much – on the line-up for the Sunday night,” says WOMADelaide associate director, Annette Tripodi.

Also joining the line-up is Adelaide duo Siberian Tiger, alias Bree Tranter (from indie band The Middle East) and Chris Panousakis (of Timberwolf) – who will open for The Teskey Brothers and Midnight Oil on the Monday, March 8.

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