Quarter time: Finally family foursome Stonefield.
ERIN PEARSON
SISTER rock sensation Stonefield will play an all-ages gig at Point Lonsdale Primary School Hall next weekend.
The Triple J Unearthed High 2010 winner has gone on to rock stages all across the world, including an appearance at England’s Glastonbury Festival earlier this year.
Findlay sisters Amy, Hannah, Sarah and Holly started their band in a shed on a family hobby farm in a rural township north of Melbourne.
The foursome began after their parents granted their daughters’ wish of a drum kit.
The girls grew up to the music of Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.
Oldest sister Amy took a particular shine to the kit at the tender age of 15 and soon began lessons.
The other sisters were drawn back into the shelter, finding their own instruments one by one.
Hannah, then 13, started on guitar, and 12-year-old Sara took on a role as the band’s keyboard player.
Seven-year-old Holly listened to her sisters practicing before asking her father for a bass.
As the Findlays’ collection of instruments grew, a music teacher moved into the property next door before being commissioned to coach each sister
Six years later Stonefield has become Australian rock and roll’s newest family story.
Next weekend’s performance will also feature local talent The Sweethearts, The Nicholson 5 and The Warning.
The free all-ages concert is at Point Lonsdale Primary School Hall from 6pm to 10pm on October 15.
The event will be fully supervised and drug, alcohol and smoking-free.
