Art After Hours - Faces in the Crowd Music Series

Overview

Want to see Seekae's Alex Cameron, surrounded by art, playing live for free? Want to be seduced by the smooth sounds of Donny Benet beside Australia's famous faces? Over the month of August, the Art Gallery of New South Wales's Art After Hours program is extending the Archibald Prize love to live music. Each Wednesday from August 5-26, AGNSW will see some of Australia's best musicians playing for free in the Gallery's entrance court in 'Faces in the Crowd'. Yep, for free.

On August 5, Alex Cameron returns to the Gallery to take you on a journey through time and space with his eclectic brand of electronica. James will be teaming up with saxophonist Roy Molloy to showcase his debut album Jumping the Shark, which documents tales of shame and humiliation in the most crisp, breezy way possible.

On August 12, Austinmer band Shining Bird will bring their hypnotic melodies, Crosby, Stills and Nash-like harmonies and debut album Leisure Coast tunes to the Gallery. A crew of buds who initially bonded over their love of the sea, Australian cinema, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue LP and the great Australian poet Henry Lawson, this crew has a sound you can't pin down until you hear it live.

On August 19, drummer for The Drones, frontman for The Gentlemen of Fortune and solo artist in his own right Mike Nogo brings his stripped-back folk-rock to the Gallery. He'll be performing a solo sneak peak of his highly anticipated third album, due out later this year.

Then last (but in no way, shape or form least) immortal synthmaster and 'Sophisticated Lover' Donny Benet will be gracing the gallery on August 26. Breaking hearts and taking names since his 2011 debut album The Touch, Benet's signature blend of Italo-disco and synth-laden pop has entranced audiences from Goodgod Small Club to Sydney Festival to the Opera House.

Each artist will play twice in the evening (you lucky things), once at 6pm and again at 7.30pm.

ART AFTER HOURS — FACES IN THE CROWD SERIES LINEUP:
AUGUST 5 — ALEX CAMERON (SEEKAE)
AUGUST 12 — SHINING BIRD
AUGUST 19 — MIKE NOGA
AUGUST 26 — DONNY BENET

While you're there, why not see the Archibald Prize?