Welcome to Local Yard sessions. Think: intimate backyard party meets live music, spoken poetry and visual art, creating a diverse cultural experience that engages all of the senses.

Brainchild of emerging local arts promoter, Sol, Tunes and Textures Volume IV is a wholesome not-for-profit event held at Scarborough’s Artspace Collective. The space is an uplifting, inclusive and innovative community arts hub, thriving under the voluntary leadership of experienced artist Marite Norris. The vibrant, welcoming venue includes a gallery alongside a workshop area where creatives can unite to connect with art, ideas and one another.

Tunes and Textures Volume IV included a stellar line up of local talent, comprising of immersive art exhibitions by Jose Bacarreza and Roundhouse Studios, poetry by Ella Argo and the soothing sounds of Sam Coombes, Jay Grafton, LU CI, Marz Needz Mumz and Mitch Santiago.

Every part of this event is a standout, but Ella Argo’s spoken, stripped backed poetry provides something that the audience didn’t even know it needed. Argo invites the audience to enter the pages of her dreams, transporting them into another realm where only soulmates and love exist.

Local up-and-comers Marz Needz Mumz are fresh off the spaceship, having spent just nine months together, this band’s chemistry and musical wisdom is beyond their years and honestly, it’s out of this world. You may be yet to catch these talented musicians jamming in backyards and live music venues such as the Indi Bar, but you’re about to see a whole lot more from this band.

Mitch Santiago perfectly rounds out the afternoon, losing himself and his audience in his magical, sultry sounds. Santiago is a local favourite, delivering hundreds of performances from the street to beach to popular venues across Perth – his soothing tones never fail to leave an impression.

While the sell-out, once-off event that was Tunes and Textures Volume IV may be over, keep an eye out for Sol’s next venture. This young gun puts his heart and Sol into creating unique experiences which bring local art to the fore, and whatever’s next is bound to be unreal.