Bella Ciao: Anti-Fascist Music Festival

Thornbury Theatre - Ballroom, 859 High St, 3071 Thornbury Kort

lau. 05.09.2026 19:00

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Bella Ciao is a fundraising event for Victorian Socialists to assist with their campaign to take on One Nation, the big capitalists and the establishment in this year's Victorian state election, as well as an opportunity to show opposition to the threat posed by the far-right.

Headlined by Montaigne, with support from locals Lily Morris, Bec Sykes, TNS, and The Iron Bark Brothers.

Between performances, hear from a host of Victorian Socialists candidates, including Purple Pingers, Jasmine Duff, Oskar Martin, Yasemin Shamsili and Priya Reddy.

All proceeds go towards the Victorian Socialists state election campaign.

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Montaigne
Since first emerging in 2012, Montaigne has established themselves as one of Australia’s most eclectic performers, a natural storyteller and entertainer that has captured attention across the world.

Their expansive debut album GLORIOUS HEIGHTS arrived in 2016, featuring the ARIA Platinum certified single ‘Because I Love You’. The album earned landed at #4 on the ARIA charts, and Montaigne took home the ‘Best Breakthrough Artist’ award at the 2016 ARIA Awards.

In 2019, Montaigne was selected to represent Australia at Eurovision in Rotterdam 2020, having won the Eurovision: Australia Decides competition with their stunning original song, ‘Don’t Break Me’. While the global music event was delayed due to the pandemic, Montaigne returned in 2021 to represent Australia on the world stage in May of 2021 with their kaleidoscopic single ‘Technicolour’.

Montaigne returned with third album making it! in 2022. Key amongst making it! were two urgent and gloriously prismatic songs sculpted alongside Talking Heads’ visionary leader David Byrne.

Refusing to be boxed in, Montaigne has also worked in theatre, musical comedy, podcasts and video games with an ever-diversifying portfolio. They were recently nominated for a 2024 Grammy for their songwriting work on Australian indie video game 'Stray Gods' alongside Austin Wintory and Tripod.

They released their first ever independently released album in 2025, 'it's hard to be a fish'.