Our Guide To NGV Friday Nights

National Gallery Of Victoria’s full Friday Nights music series is a sensory overload, with a plethora of music, art talks, food and drink rolling out from now until July.

Here’s why you should make NGV your second home this winter.

Gemma Ray

Fri 28 Apr

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Having worked with members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Sparks, Alan Vega of Suicide and more over the years, Gemma Ray has also contributed scores and music to numerous films and TV shows, and appeared on TV shows like RocKwiz and Spicks & Specks.The Berlin-based artist will bring her band and bluesy, psychedelic sound and new offering, The Exodus Suite, to NGV.

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Toby Martin (Youth Group)

Fri 5 May

Review: “There's the gentle observations familiar in Toby Martin's work, but the view out the cafe window on Chapel And Dellwood has wafts of the Mediterranean and Indo-Chinese clunking percussion drifting in.” Read more

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EMMA RUSSACK

Fri 19 May

Review: “Emma Russack's third album In A New State sees the Melbourne artist stripping back the blues, folk and country stylings of her previous records and diffusing her sound with heavy doses of reverb and hazy effects.” Read more

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gareth liddiard

Fri 12 May

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Gawurra

Fri 26 May

Gawurra’s Ratja Yaliyali and its contemporary take on traditional Gupapungu language songs won him a number of accolades, including the NT Song Of The Year Award and an ARIA nomination.

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