We.Are.All.Ants. Takes Over The Grace Emily This Thursday
The experimental event features four of SA’s leading female artists performing solo at The Grace.
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We.Are.All.Ants. is a special one-off experimental gig taking place at the Grace Emily this Thursday 25 September (tickets on sale here).
Part of Adelaide Guitar Festival’s Guitars in Bars program, We.Are.All.Ants features four local female artists – Anya Anastasia, Ella Ion, Chelsea Lee and Quartz Pistol – performing solo at the Grace.
Championing South Aussie female guitar artists, the event allows the four chosen talents to showcase their music in an intimate and much-loved venue. As the press release states, expect “spidery webs of lyrics, crooning, shouting, weeping and glitching” when the amps are turned to 11 and these four bold genre-blending songwriters take to the stage.
Each of the four creatives have built a reputation through crafting thought-provoking music that gets under your skin and infests your mind – in the best possible way.
Anya Anastasia is a South Australian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who merges experimental folk with post-rock soundscapes. She released her debut EP, Dissenter, in 2022, with the EP coming in at #14 in the Three D Radio Top 101 most played releases in 2023.
Rising folk meets indie rock musician Ella Ion has had a massive 2025. After taking to the stage at the UK’s The Great Escape Festival in May, Ion performed a run of UK and European shows in August before returning home for an Australian tour that wrapped up earlier this month. First finding success with her 2023 debut album Waiting, Ion has shared several singles this year in the lead-up to her much-anticipated sophomore record.
Accomplished vocalist and composer Chelsea Lee has been a mainstay of the Adelaide music scene for close to a decade. She’s released three original jazz albums over that time and was the star of this year’s Adelaide Jazz Festival, performing a David Lynch tribute show with DJAWBREAKER and an original set of tunes inspired by albums with Pulpland, a leading group of Adelaide jazz musicians.
The final artist on the bill is the mysterious Quartz Pistol, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer who crafts low-fi pop music that “embraces the hard, soft, grotesque and beautiful.” She’s appeared on countless records, shared the stage with the likes of Emma Donovan, Mo’ju and Joy and toured internationally.
We.Are.All.Ants. shapes as an incredible evening of live music from four of the state’s most interesting female artists, and one you don’t want to miss.
We.Are.All.Ants takes place at The Grace Emily on Thursday 25 September. Tickets on sale now via humanitix.com.
