Local band Junk Soup ‘honoured’ to be performing at Nannup Music Festival as 2023 emerging artist nominees

With only four months experience performing as a duo, two young musicians will take to the stage this weekend with two original songs at the Nannup Music Festival as 2023 emerging artist entrants. Junk Soup — made up of Nannup local Lily Carey and Perth-born Lara Fratel — began performing together alongside their band throughout the Perth music scene after realising the combination of their voices was definitely worth sharing. Vocalist and guitarist Lily said it was an honour to be able to play at the festival which has been pivotal to her music upbringing. “It’s so exciting,” she said. “I’ve gone to the Nannup Music Festival ever since I was a little kid and now being able to play is such an honour.” Lily said herself and Lara were shocked when her mum and band manager delivered the message that the duo would be performing at the prestigious music event. “She messages me one day and goes, ‘oh my goodness Lily, I got Junk Soup into the Nannup Music Festival’ — I had no idea how she did it, it’s just crazy.” The up-and-coming musicians — while still figuring out their sound — combine country, indie-rock and folk music with a twist of pop and have been performing a mix of original songs alongside covers from music greats like Dolly Parton and Carrie Underwood. During their performance on Saturday, the women intend to play two of their best original songs to wow the crowd and the judges. “We’re playing two of our originals, one of them doesn’t actually have a name yet, so we’re going to have to name that pretty quickly, our other song is one of our original songs that we wrote ages ago called Girl Best Friend, we play it all the time,” she said, “It’s usually a crowd favourite too.” Lily said the duo — whose name came from a mash-up of Spaghetti Junction and Good Soup, names that their TAFE band had debated over — haven’t got official performances in the line-up yet but anticipate a huge year, with the aim of taking their music regional. “I’m really hoping to play more shows in Nannup after this,” she said. “We haven’t got anything official in the line-up yet but we do have some things in the works. “I’d love to start networking with some South venues, trying to get some more down South, Nannup regions gigs,” she said, “It would be so good to spread out around WA. “We’re hoping to fit in lots this year.”