Live Music

Ben Salter

  • 21 Sep 2024   |   6:30pm - 7:30pm
  • $35 - General Admission
  • Prince's Square - Little Devil Tent
    Elizabeth St
    Launceston TAS 7250

Ben Salter is one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers and songwriters. He makes eclectic, esoteric music that defies easy classification, drawing on elements of indie rock, folk, jazz, electronica, country and beyond whilst maintaining a coherent and inimitable melodic style that coalesces around Salter's powerful and emotive voice. As well as maintaining an intensive national and international touring schedule, Salter has since 2021 been a semi-permanent artist in residence at the Museum of Old & New Art (MONA) in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania, where he writes, records, collaborates and performs in his own studio within the museum. He has thus far released nine albums worth of material recorded at the studio including 2021’s twenty-one words for happiness and recent releases Mayday and Sublimation.

Age suitability 

Suitable for all ages 

Accessibility 
  • Step-Free Mobility-Aid Access
  • Unreserved seating - space available for those using a wheelchair 
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About Ben Salter 

“I firmly believe Ben Salter to be one of Australia’s best singers, and if I weren’t so goddamn competitive, one of its best songwriters as well.” – Tim Rogers (You Am I, The Temperance Union)

Ben Salter is one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers and songwriters. As well as being a founding member of Giants of Science, The Gin Club and the three-time ARIA-nominated Wilson Pickers, he is an accomplished artist in his own right. His debut solo album The Cat (2011) and follow up The Stars My Destination (2015) have established his penchant for eclectic, esoteric arrangements and sounds that take in elements of rock, pop, jazz, folk, country and beyond, whilst all maintaining a coherence and inimitable melodic style.

Salter has collaborated, written and performed with artists as diverse as Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), Tim Rogers (You Am I, The Temperance Union), Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger), Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) and Marlon Williams, to name a few. He has toured with acts such as Cat Power, J Mascis, Gareth Liddiard, Counting Crows, Marlon Williams and most recently Built To Spill.

Salter continues to perform relentlessly across Australia and the world, both solo and with his band, and his captivating live performances have become quasi-legendary.