Jack River

UCX welcomes students back to campus with our Semester 2 2022 O-Week celebrations! Catch Muesli and Sputnik Sweetheart supporting Jack River at UC Hub on Friday 29th July. Special discounts for UC students.

With over 66 million streams, a Platinum, and multiple Gold singles, Jack River is a force to be reckoned with. Her debut album Sugar Mountain earned 3 x ARIA Award nominations, including Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Best Pop Release and Engineer of the Year, an AIR nomination for Best Independent Pop Album, and saw Holly nominated for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year at the APRA Awards.

But Jack River has not only proved herself as a powerhouse musician in recent years, but as a voice for change. She is a writer, entrepreneur and promoter, starting the annual Grow Your Own Festival in her hometown of Forster–promoting local and sustainable culture–and in 2017 co-founding Electric Lady, a movement that has her curating all-women stages and festivals as well as creating opportunities for female acts that previously didn’t exist. Her advocacy for local music kicked off a viral campaign resulting in Our Soundtrack Our Stories, an open invitation from our country's music community to the rest of the country to discover, champion, share, and consume more local music.

A lifetime in the making, her most recent single We Are The Youth draws from a long-held passion for climate and environmental movements, it pays homage to the forebears of what Jack River terms “political pop” – artists like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young, whose music doubled as outspoken political statements. The result is a heady, electrifying mix of warped guitars and stomping drums that capture “the feeling of our times, like a folk song laced with acid” as River describes it.