Mama Matrix , The Crooked Fiddle Band, Boat To Row

Frenetic Balkan punksters Mama Matrix combine finely honed musicianship with raw, infectious charisma. Frontman Daz Dolczech reels off salacious tales of panic and infidelity, rippled through with a hearty Balkan baseline and feverish violectra. Regulars at Shambala and Moseley Folk, they have wowed and disturbed in equal measure across the UK, in Amsterdam and Rome. To experience Mama Matrix is to stare into the mouth of a devastatingly beautiful, dangerous chasm, and those who survive cannot help but be drawn back for more.

Australian chainsaw-folk vigilantes The Crooked Fiddle Band deliver a no-holds-barred celebration of dark, ecstatic energy.

Fronted by Sydney Conservatoire trained, Golden Fiddle Award winning virtuoso Jess Randall, tCFB are equally at home in an underground warehouse party and in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House.

Intertwining folk traditions with bush music, Celtic, bluegrass, jazz and modern gypsy evolutions, this Sydney-based acoustic four-piece (double-bass, violin, drums and guitar/bouzouki) spurs the dance floor into a post-apocalyptic hoedown.