Big Sigh EP Release Show - Kirikiriroa Hamilton

Big Sigh is the musical collaboration between Kirikiriroa's own Rachel Hope Peary and Nicholas Joseph Walsh.

The pair forged a friendship and musical partnership in early 2024, anchored in their intertwined harmonies, finger-picked acoustic guitar and the steady drone of harmonium. Astute listeners would have already heard them and seen them perform with their contemporaries Womb, Jazmine Mary and Jim Nothing.

Now signed to Sunreturn records, Big Sigh will be celebrating the release of their debut EP Tether. The forthcoming EP captures that first rush of creative momentum, a collection of the earliest songs born from a partnership that felt, from the outset, instinctive and inevitable.

With special guests Brandon De La Cruz and Ballygewl.

Brandon De La Cruz is a folk artist who grew up in the suburbs of Southern California's Inland Empire. His lyricism is uniquely shaped by his interest in mythology and ceremony. His fourth album, Blue Irises in Hologram was released in October 2025. Blue Irises is De La Cruz’s
sixth album and his first to feature a cast of musicians from Aotearoa.