Recent adventures with Bromham:
2024 Woodford Folk Festival (QLD)
2024 SA Music Awards People’s Choice - Folk (nominee) (SA)
2024 IndieCon’s Scouted (Sofia Menguita, Bjéar) (SA)
2024 WOMADelaide (José González, Corinne Bailey Rae) (SA)
2024 Earthjams, (Naomi Keyte, Druid Fluids) (SA)
2024 Yackandandah Folk Festival (VIC)
2024 Dam Good Time (NSW)
Lou Howard is an Adelaide-based musician and poet.
Currently, Lou plays trombone in the 15-piece folk phenomenon Bromham and plays banjo in SCALA award-winning Bryn Soden's Sturt Avenue and plays whichever instrument isn't taken in aussie bluegrass band Smug Drugglers.
Initially training on jazz trombone, Lou has played with such groups as The Bigfoot Collective, Baby Wants Candy (Adelaide Fringe), Tales (Adelaide 500), and Bromham (WOMADelaide, Woodford Folk) before picking up banjo and guitar.
Lou was commissioned as composer and soundscape/foley artist for Cirkidz & Prospect Theatre for Young People’s "Fear (Not)" 2019 and has had their poetry published in Friendly Street Poets Anthology "Q". In 2022 Lou recorded as vocalist for Kelly Doddridge on his latest EP "Phonation".
Lou is currently composing and performing jazz informed folk music set to original spoken and sung poetry.
Performance and recording highlights continued:
Bromham - 2023 - present
Phonation - Kelly Doddridge 2023
The Bigfoot Collective - 2020-2021
Burjon - 2018-2021
Fear (Not) - DreamBIG 2020, Adelaide Fringe 2019 (composer, soundscape designer)
Baby Wants Candy - Adelaide Fringe 2019
Tales @ Adelaide500 - 2019
