Louise is a cellist and researcher. She is a non-Aboriginal woman living on the unceded land of the Woi wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.
Louise is one half of the Melbourne duo, Big Fiddle Little Fiddle. This project is the result of a six-year collaboration with Jessica Foot (5-string fiddle, hardingfele). Over this time, BFLF has recorded a CD (The Kitchen Project), presented annual house concerts in partnership with other musicians who are similarly attracted to experimenting in music-making practices commonly defined as ‘folk’, and appeared on festival stages from Majors Creek Festival in NSW to the 2022 3MBS-FM Music, She Wrote Festival here in Melbourne.
Louise has appeared on festival stages around Australia including Brunswick Music Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Celtic Festival, National Folk Festival, Newstead Folk Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival and Majors Creek Festival, but finds just as much enjoyment playing music around kitchen tables and camp sites with her family and friends. Louise also occasionally teaches and leads workshops for cellists and fiddlers of all ages with collaborator Jessica Foot. She owes her journey in folk and traditional music to the inspiring community-based Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club.
Louise is one half of the Melbourne duo, Big Fiddle Little Fiddle. This project is the result of a six-year collaboration with Jessica Foot (5-string fiddle, hardingfele). Over this time, BFLF has recorded a CD (The Kitchen Project), presented annual house concerts in partnership with other musicians who are similarly attracted to experimenting in music-making practices commonly defined as ‘folk’, and appeared on festival stages from Majors Creek Festival in NSW to the 2022 3MBS-FM Music, She Wrote Festival here in Melbourne.
Louise has appeared on festival stages around Australia including Brunswick Music Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Celtic Festival, National Folk Festival, Newstead Folk Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival and Majors Creek Festival, but finds just as much enjoyment playing music around kitchen tables and camp sites with her family and friends. Louise also occasionally teaches and leads workshops for cellists and fiddlers of all ages with collaborator Jessica Foot. She owes her journey in folk and traditional music to the inspiring community-based Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club.