AN AWARD WINNING COMEDY CABARET FOR EVERYONE WHO USED TO BE COOL…
OR NOT
Jen & Kate are singers and academics in their (early?) 40s, but every time they get together for a sensible 5pm dinner and a matinee show they remember how cool they were 25 years ago, back when they lived in a uni sharehouse. Wine Mum Anthems is a comedy cabaret set to the soundtrack of hits from the late 90s/early 00s Triple J Hottest 100 charts. It explores themes of enduring friendship, millennial nostalgia and youthful misadventure, and pays homage to some of the most iconic Australian music from the turn of the century.
Winner of the Anywhere Festival Brisbane Audience Choice Award 2026
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Kate Schirmer
Kate is a highly experienced singing teacher and music educator, currently working at Griffith University as Lecturer in Music and Singing at the Queensland Academy of Excellence in Musical Theatre (QAEMT). She serves as Artistic Director of the Queensland Show Choir and conducts their award winning young adult ensemble, Voiceworks. Kate presents nationally and internationally to singers, teachers, choristers, and actors and is in demand as an adjudicator. She is an experienced crossover performer with a career spanning Opera, Big Band, Musical Theatre, Cabaret, Contemporary Commercial Music, and even a gig with the Rolling Stones!
Jen Teh
Jen is a singer, music educator and conductor with more than twenty years’ experience across classrooms, choirs, studios and stages. She holds honours degrees in Music and Education, and has taught music in settings ranging from early childhood to university, and everything in between. She has directed large-scale music and choral programs, delivered lectures and workshops at national and international conferences and symposia, and performed extensively as a live and studio singer. Jen firmly believes that music should belong to everyone.
Testimonials
What Kate and Jen present is a lovingly crafted tapestry of music and autobiography, exploring the joy of shared coming-of-age experiences, the absurdity of intergenerational judgement and just some bangin’ tracks. It’s full of heart, it’s funny, it’s relatable, without being overly nostalgic.
The show was so funny, so sentimental and gorgeous, and such a wonderful ode to falling in love with your friends.
Absolute vocal perfection, those harmonies! The storyline, and the way you manged to seamlessly take the audience from laughing our heads off to our hearts cracked open with tears in our eyes.
Wine Mum Anthems takes millenial (and a bit of Gen-X) 20-something stories and songs to create a funny and endearing show about friendships, bad relationships and nights out on a uni student budget.
The Raven, West End
NB: This venue is not wheelchair accessible. If you require wheelchair accessibility we invite you to attend our performances at New Tricks in Albion.
Sat 2 May
Matinee 2.00pm
Sat 2 May
Evening 6.00pm
Sun 3 May
Evening 7.00pm
New Tricks, Albion
Sat 9 May
Matinee 2.30pm (doors open 1.30pm)
Sat 9 May
Evening 7.00pm (doors open 6.00pm)
Sun 10 May
Evening 7.00pm (doors open 6.00pm)
15+ only. This show contains gratuitous swearing, sexual references and questionable choices.
And a whole lot of ABSOLUTE BANGERS from the early 00s.
Living, working and creating on Yuggera and Turrbal land.