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Tara Clerkin Trio

  • Contemporary Music
  • Alt-folk
  • Alt-jazz
  • Utzon Room

The UK’s hypnotic avant-pop trio arrive in the Utzon Room

Tara Clerkin Trio are perhaps the most mesmerising emerging act to come out of the UK. Just announced on the 2026 Meredith Festival lineup and fresh from their critically acclaimed album Somewhere Good, the band mark their Sydney Opera House debut in the iconic Utzon Room.

Formed in Bristol in 2020, the trio - Tara Clerkin, her partner Sunny Joe Paradisos and Sunny’s brother, Patrick Benjamin are less concerned with genre as with texture and feeling, blending jazz, folk, trip-hop, avant-pop into modern compositions – think Portishead meets The Durutti Column. To hear them live is to immerse yourself in their dynamic, boldly intuitive and rare universe.

Clerkin’s luminous vocal witchery anchors the trio as they trace everyday melancholy, personal dissociation and urban changes, all delivered with a distinctly relaxed energy. Songs are given the space to breathe, stretch out and evolve naturally and every minor imperfection is embraced. 

If you’re after unorthodox instrumentation that feels genuinely alive, this is set to be intriguing in ways you won’t expect. Secure your ticket before it sells out.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

Event details

A gorgeous and truly hypnotic listen, Somewhere Good is a truly original, absolutely heavenly work.

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The result is a sense of dreamlike disorientation, terrible events unfolding in a state of divine, fragile calm.

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Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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