15 Years of Astral People takeover

Moonflower Suite: Maina Doe, NMMWL & KHYA with Hey, Love

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  • Contemporary Music
  • Vivid LIVE
  • Utzon Room

Experience the spiritual power of music and poetry

Continuing their landmark 15th anniversary, tastemaking label Astral People take over the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room for a transcendent night of music and poetry with the Moonflower Suite, featuring the talents of Maina Doe, NMMWL, KHYA and Hey, Love.

Moonflower Suite is a symphony of live performance anchored by Sydney instrumental collective Hey, Love, whose improvisation shape the evening’s spiritual experience through live jazz, soul and hip-hop–informed instrumentation, creating a responsive foundation for voice, language and emotion.

Across the suite, Indonesian-born R&B star Maina Doe, South-Sudanese soul poet NMMWL and Chilean Australian transdisciplinary artist KHYA enter as vocal and spoken-word counterparts, weaving melody, poetry and narrative through the live compositions. Each artist brings a distinct sensibility, from song to spoken word, unfolding organically within the shared sonic environment.

The result is an immersive, genre-blurring performance where live musicianship leads and voices bloom within it, intimate, fluid and deeply present.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

Event details

Raw emotiveness extends past KHYA’s music and peaks in her live shows. The slow, sensual nature of her sound can leave you hanging on every word.

VICE

Reinventing the torch singer for a progressive R&B era.

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Attending this event

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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