Cloutie Will standing left wearing t-shirt reading "no longer in common reality" and Madam Nightingale crouching right holding a paper crane

Madam Nightingale (Phaedra Gunn) dancing in red costume & headdress with UV stage makeup

Cloutie Will (Sarah Dwyer) singing in white ball gown under UV lights near velvet drapes with fairy lights

New Beginnings

Music • Pop

Australia • World Premiere

Premiering at Adelaide Fringe 2024, Madam Nightingale’s exciting collaboration with Cloutie Will ‘New Beginnings’ is a gripping musical performance including spoken word and interpretive dance, elegantly storytelling what it means to be human. Cloutie Will (emerging rap artist, Sarah Dwyer) expresses the full range of emotions as a "fallen woman" seeking a personal path to redemption. Madam Nightingale (synthpop artist, Phaedra Gunn) sends the joy of art from the celestial world of the ether back unto the earth as Cloutie’s personal goddess of song. Cloutie Will and Madam Nightingale perform a transcendent contemporary rap and 80s influenced synthpop show that's not to be missed.

"Nominated for the Newcastle Fringe Artistic Merit award 2023" Newcastle Herald.

Presented by: Madam Nightingale

Phaedra Gunn is a creative event producer, composer-lyricist, & vocalist currently performing as 'Madam Nightingale'. As of 2023 Phaedra’s company Elsner-Gunn Solutions (EGS) completed the transition to exclusively providing arts event (exhibition & performance) production services, and arts grant application & Auspicing services, see https://about.me/phaedra_gunn for more about Phaedra.