Jess Ribeiro at NGV

Award-winning Melbourne singer-songwriter Jess Ribeiro returns from a European tour to perform this Friday 19 August at for Friday Nights at NGV.

Jess Ribeiro is inspired by artists as diverse as The Velvet Underground to Dusty Springfield. She has been compared to the likes of Karen Dalton and Cat Power and has supported and performed with artists including Nick Cave, Steve Earle and Tim Rogers.

No stranger to critical acclaim, Ribeiro's 2012 debut, My Little River, was awarded ABC Radio National Album of the Year, Best Country Album at the 2012 AIR Awards and was shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Music Prize. Her most recent album Kill it Yourself , produced by acclaimed musician/producer Mick Harvey, dives headlong into hazy rock, landscape ambience and melodious 60's psych and has already garnered a number of awards and critical acclaim including being shortlisted for the 2016 AMP Award.

Also coming up are Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds (26 August), Mick Harvey (2 September), Pierce Brothers (9 September) and Augie March (16 September).