BIO
Award-winning alt-folk duo All the Way Home draw from an eclectic musical palette to create original music that resonates in the heart and soul. They perform original songs, delicate covers and fun singalongs, featuring high male tenor and low female bass in delicious, intricate harmony. Blending ukulele voices including concert, tenor, U-bass, with guitar, hand-held percussion, mouth trumpet (and, this year – cello!), their shows are a joyful and intimate sharing of stories about being human, losing yourself and finding your place. With catchy riffs and toe-tapping rhythms their joyful performances warm hearts wherever they roam.
reviews & Testimonials
“THIS IS ADDING SOME SUNSHINE ... sounds amazing” “Thank you it was gorgeous lifted my spirits” – Sue Johnson, composer
“Thank you and you both sound lovely!! Great harmonies! …Oh I love this!” (our cover of her anthem Same Dirt) – Victoria Vox, singer/songwriter
“These are grown-up songs, allusive and thoughtful… Songwriters with something to say and artful ways to say it. Songs worth singing, learning and sharing. Voices of contrasting timbre rubbing against each other like branches of tall trees. Lyrics that require unstitching, and riffs that reward the ear.” Michael Winkler
Read the All the Way Home album review by renowned author Michael Winkler.
Bus stops
Bus Stops was awarded “Best Original Song” at Sunshine Coast Ukulele Festival, April 2019.
change is gonna come
Written by Craig Barrie, Nicki Johnson and Loz Irwin-Ray, this anthem was brought to life by the Big Cosy Sing, an annual combined choir event. In 2020 this became a video project, edited by Loz and Judi of Beyond the Bathroom Choir.
Past performances
Formed in 2016, some of All The Way Home’s previous gigs include:
National Folk Festival, 2023
Melbourne Ukulele Festival 2021, 2022, 2023
Darebin Songwriters Guild Showcases @ Bar 303, 2018–2023
Newkulele Festival, 2022
Booroondara Uke Fest, 2022
Stawell Performing Arts Festival, 2022
Whittlesea Uke Muster 2019, 2021, 2022
Hills Ukulele Festival 2021 (Best original “lockdown” song)
❤ Steph & Matt’s delightfully wonderful wedding ❤ 2021
WOV Live 100+ livestreamed singalongs throughout lockdowns 2020 and 2021
Big Cosy Sing Online, 2020
Grantville Online 2020
Whittlesea Uke Muster Online, 2020
Sundays @6 – series of 8 livestreamed concerts launching our
2020 EP All the Way HomeMordiFest, 2020
Melbourne Ukulele Festival @ The Wesley Anne, 2020
Melbourne Ukulele Festival Launch @ Bar 303, 2020
Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival @ Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, 2020
Sunshine Coast Ukulele Festival @ Main Stage, 2019
(Best original song)Seeds Garden Winter Festival, Brunswick, 2019
Malahang Festival, 2017, 2018, 2019
Big Climate Sing, 2019
Refugee & Migrant Sunday Concert, 2019
Childrens’ performance School Strike for Climate @ State Library, 2019
CERES Farmers Market, regular performers 2018 – current
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings tribute show: @ Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick, 2018
House concert @ Tomoko Suzuki, Tokyo Japan, 2018
Sunday Songs, songwriters in the round @ Bar 303, 2018
Winter Magic Market Brunswick North West, 2016, 2017, 2018
Real Live Music House Concert, 2018
Melbourne Songs – themed concert @ Thornbury Bowls Club, 2018
Greater Dandenong Bridge Naming Ceremony, 2018
Tavern Night Concert @ Meeniyan Town Hall, 2018
Side Project – themed concert @ Thornbury Bowls Club, 2017
Peppertree Place Community Market, Coburg, 2017
Marriage Equality Rally soloists @ State Library, 2017
Love, Love, Love soloists @ Grace Darling, 2017
Serenading Adela promo concert @ Siteworks, 2017
69 Love Songs – Magnetic Fields Tribute show @ The Wesley Anne, 2016
Brunswick Uniting Church combined choirs finale, 2015
With One Big Voice @ Melbourne Town Hall, 2015
City of Greater Dandenong events, inc, Carols by Candlelight, White Ribbon Day, Australian Citizenship Ceremonies @ Harmony Square, 2015 – 2020
