Award winning podcaster and songwriter Claire Tonti is bringing her heartfelt debut album ‘Matrescence’ to the The Hall Exeter.

The show will be opened by a performance from Thula Mama Exeter, followed by Claire performing her album, and will finish with morning tea.

Fresh off the back of sold out shows in her hometown Melbourne Australia, Claire will be performing 11 intimate indie folks songs about love, identity loss and motherhood, overcoming birth trauma, grief and the complexity of parenting as a creative. Claire will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Ezekiel Fenn.

Of the album Claire says, “The songs for this album poured out of me when I finally gave myself permission to be still and figure out what I wanted to do and who I was beyond fulfilling all the roles women are expected to be.

The title of this album, Matrescence, describes our transition to motherhood. When a baby is born, so is a mother. Equivalent both physically and psychologically to adolescence with all its awkward hormones, gigantic identity shifts and general life upheaval. There is so much that we’re only beginning to understand about what actually happens to women when they become mothers – both incredibly wonderful and undeniably difficult, complex and sometimes traumatic.”

Bring your friends, mother’s group, mums or the humans who are in the parenting trenches with you.

This incredibly special Exeter event promises to be a musical celebration of the messy, complex, beautiful and sometimes brutal transition to motherhood, through storytelling and song.

Note: This is not a children’s show due to adult themes covered, however babies in prams and children are welcome to attend with accompanying adults.