Welcome to Broken Creek!
Broken Creek reimagine Australiana on banjo, guitar, fiddle and voice, exploring stories from Australia’s past and present.
They perform original songs about small-town Australia, tunes inspired by the land and subversive interpretations of post-colonial bushballads.
Finalists ‘Duo of the Year’, Australian Folk Music Awards 2024
Featured on ‘Going Places with Ernie Dingo’
Broken Creek are based in Picola, a town of 100 people in Central Victoria. They have a studio in a hundred-year old farm house
Journalist Rea Johnson came to the farm to have a yarn about Australian folk music and learned the lagerphone, fed pet lambs and danced a bushdance in a shearing shed
‘Yeah Nah’ out now!
Join us for a musical roadtrip across old and new Australia.
Songs about small-town Australia. Tunes inspired by the land. Subversive interpretations of post-colonial bush ballads.
Finalist for Australian Folk Music Awards ‘Traditional Album of the Year’
Broken Creek moved to Erin’s hometown of Picola in her grandmother's 100-year old farmhouse near the bush to set up a studio to write and record their second album ‘Yeah Nah’.
Played on ABC Saturday Night Country, ABC Roots and Double J ‘Tower of Song’.
Featured in Rhythms Magazine
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Small Town Anthropologies out now!
“Small Town Anthropologies is an impressive debut, drawing on a variety of folk and old-time traditional material, showcasing over the ten tracks a tasteful blend of original material and covers of songs from England, Scotland, Ireland and America...This is not just an orthodox outing though, rather Broken Creek provide some fresh and keen observations and treatment to keep the listener engaged.”
FINALIST FOR ‘TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR’
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On our YouTube channel you can also find our original songs and all our latest releases