The Nannup Music Festival 2024

In 2024, the Nannup Music Festival, as It always does, looks to be set with another dazzling array of musicians, performers, small business stall holders and the ever present volunteer team.

I first performed at Nannup in 2005 as Gertrude WellEase. It was a pivotal period in her development as it signalled that the character had some traction beyond my home town.

Nannup had the magical atmosphere of the Festivals of old, the ones I remember as a young adult growing up in England and Australia. Safe, intimate, daring and umbilically connected to its community and country.

This year, the Festival has a special place in my heart. For the first time I step out behind the mask and perform with our band Liz Jack and the Lads, an eclectic mix of originals that need to be released to the sky and……

I also step up to the stage of life, as I join in marriage with my long term partner Mark.

We have never felt the need to marry, two beautiful humans born to us and a life of journeying. However Shani Graham our celebrant and the Nannup Music Festival, helped transform this story by posting the opportunity to get married at the Festival.

Gertrude WellEase has been proposing to Swayne Pearls for the past two leap years that I can remember. This year, it was incentivized! Festivals have a magic about them, that when sprinkled over the open hearts of people, can alchemize into strange and wonderful events.

So this year, the Festival is particularly special as we tie the knot, a treble clef of love and commitment, to celebrate all that is Life, Love and the Nannup Music Festival.

All the best Phaedra, team and the community of Nannup. We will always say yes, I do.