Greta O'Leary And Neive Strang

Join Greta O’Leary (Tāmaki Makaurau/AKL) and Neive Strang (Ōtepoti/DUN) for an evening of indie folk music as they perform their most recent releases, River Dark and Find Me in the Rabbit Hole. Greta will be accompanied by guitarist/vocalist Will McGillivray, and Neive, by guitarist/vocalist Kiera Wallace.

Neive Strang
Neive Strang is an indie folk musician based in Ōtepoti/Dunedin. She creates warm, thoughtful, and emotional music informed by themes of change, mental health, love, and whānau/family. Neive’s music is akin to artists like Julia Jacklin, lucinda Williams and Waxahatche. Like these artists, her songwriting is written through personal experience and observation.

Her music often feels introspective and intimate, with songs that spend time in complicated feelings. With a sensitivity to narrative and imagery, Neive’s lyrics outline a feeling of relatability. Blended with soaring vocals and an ethereal production, her lyrics continue to bind and warm the listener.

Her most recent release, Find Me in the Rabbit Hole, continues this world of vulnerable storytelling and textured indie folk. Though Neive hasn’t performed live recently, her work remains rooted in connection and the quiet power of being understood.

Greta O'Leary
Tāmaki Makaurau songsmith Greta O’Leary writes with a surrealist clarity of vision, the line between art and artist, self and image - is razor thin. Raised on rolling hills in northern New Zealand, and coming of age anywhere but here, O’Leary is a writer with her own lens and language. Her breakthrough debut album ‘River Dark’ was released in 2025, landing at #9 on the Aotearoa Album Charts and toured throughout NZ and Australia.

‘Serene with a sting in the tail’ - Tony Stamp. Greta’s arresting debut record was created alongside producer Jol Mulholland at LAB Studios, with Greta's hypnotic songwriting and unmistakable vocals accentuated through the skillful musicianship of instrumentalists Cass Basil (Tiny Ruins, The Veils), Alastair Deverick (Come Together Band), Callum Passells (Hans Pucket, Aldous Harding) and Anita Clark (Don McGlashan, Nadia Reid).

Greta’s voice is ‘imbued with earthy, smokey tones’, ‘reminiscent of a hāngī pit’ - Under The Radar (NZ). After establishing herself as a rising figure in Aotearoa’s folk and alternative communities, Greta received an APRA Artist Mentoring Programme Award, leading to collaborations with producer Tom Healy (Marlon Williams, Folk Bitch Trio). She has performed on several successful tours across Aotearoa, Te Waipounamu and Australia, while making appearances at Newtown Festival, Earthbeat, Performance Arcade, Wellington Gardens Magic Festival, and Te Papa’s Rongo Rehutai Summer Music Sessions alongside Vera Ellen.

Greta’s dreamlike album featured the singles, ‘Baby I’m a Singer’ and ‘Baptised at the Desktop Computer’ - both of which spent weeks in the SRN Top 10 (both peaking at #1), with the latter reaching #1 on RadioScope’s Alt Chart. The album received heavy support from RNZ, Rolling Stone AU/NZ, PBS Melbourne and the student radio network stations, and featured coverage in Coup De Main and airplay on RadioX UK (2.5mil weekly listeners). Greta toured River Dark through winter 2025 this winter, with 10 dates acrossin Aotearoa and Melbourne, joined by members of her stellar live band Jol Mulholland (Anika Moa, Neil Finn), Nava Tekela-Pule (Erny Belle, LEAO), Amy Borovich (Anna Coddington) and Alistair Deverick, and was invited to open for Australian folk and blues legend C.W. Stoneking on his NZ tour late in 2025.

Greta collaborates and performs across Aotearoa and Australia, receives consistent pressure to get into stand-up and is in studio at present working on a very new chapter.