Var Gallery Presents: Tom West with Violet Wilder

Tom West is an Australian singer, guitarist & songwriter performing with a distinctive, androgynous vocal style, finger-picked guitars, stories intricately woven into music for immersive shows. 

Following a peculiar dream featuring giant stone obelisks on a distant shore, riding a tide of coincidences, hundreds of folk shows and odd-jobs all over the USA in the years post-pandemic West found himself living in Chicago working on a new album of music with producer Ryan Freeland and some of that city's finest jazz musicians. 

From this unexpected location, far from the hills and surf worn coast of his native Fleurieu Peninsula in SA, he spent two years immersed in writing, recording & producing from a third story bedroom of a historic Chicago brownstone: absorbing the essence of that historic musical city and diving deeper into his compositions and experiences than ever before. 

2025 will see West return to the touring circuit with…