Meg Washington

Next date: Friday, 10 October 2025 | 07:30 PM

Meg Washington premieres her brand-new album GEM at MPAC. This born storyteller launches her hauntingly beautiful, genre-bending new music with a full band, in an electrifying and soulful live concert.

Meg is this year’s guest artist-in-residence at MPAC, collaborating with the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music. She will premiere her album GEM in a one-night-only concert, supported by the student winners of Monash’s 2025 Songwriting Prize.

After a viral TEDx talk in which she confronted her lifelong stutter, Meg began her voice-acting role as the schoolteacher Calypso in the beloved children’s show Bluey in 2018.

In 2020, she delivered her critically acclaimed fourth record Batflowers, which features the song Lazarus Drug. Her highly anticipated fifth studio album, titled GEM, features the single Kidding, co-written with Ben Edgar (Dope Lemon, Matt Corby, Angus & Julia Stone) and mastered by Lachlan Carrick (King Gizzard, Doja Cat, Paul Kelly).

In Meg’s words:

“Kidding is about deciding to reframe your own story. It’s about letting go of a common ideal and creating your own context, the masterful feeling of being yourself on purpose. It’s the first song I’ve ever written with stuttering in the lyrics. This album is a message in a bottle; a record detailing the years I spent alone on a deserted tropical island. Or was that a dream? It’s about finding something very precious within yourself and refusing to give it up. Insisting on art. Insisting on beauty. I’ve called it GEM, which is my name in reverse.”