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Kin: Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat

Melbourne Recital Centre · Southbank

folksong reshaped by memory, voice and piano

Get ticketsFrom $40 on whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au Ask your mates if they’re keenGet a link for the group chat · no app needed
🗓️Tue 1 Dec 2026 · 7pm
🎟️From $40
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Tue 1 Dec · 7pm – 8pm

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After forging a close musical bond in contemporary repertoire, Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat turn to a tradition that is anything but fixed. Kin explores folksong as a living, evolving art, melodies and stories passed between generations, reshaped by memory, place and imagination.

Alongside now classic arrangements by Britten, Bartók and Grainger and rarities by EJ Moeran and Doreen Senior, new commissions from Josephine Stephenson, Isabella Gellis and Louise Drewett bring fresh perspectives to this shared inheritance.

Rooted in the duo’s own sense of cultural identity, at once Australian, European and diasporic, this is a programme that moves fluidly across borders and eras, held together by an instinctive, finely balanced partnership.

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When is Kin: Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat?

Tue 1 Dec 2026, 7pm.

Where is it?

Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank, VIC.

How much are tickets?

From $40, as the source listed it when Keen last read the listing. The ticket page has the current price.

Where do I get tickets?

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