Szara Fox is an flamboyant Dutch songstress, whose unique songwriting style is infused with Flamenco and Balkan Gypsy music. With a powerful, compelling voice and driving guitar style, Szara weaves an elemental sensuality through up-tempo tales of travel, love, and wanderlust. A trained actress, Szara brings a theatrical and flamboyant sensibility to her dynamic performance style. Szara Fox has honed her craft over 20 years, and performed throughout Australia and Europe, captivating audiences with her mix of original compositions and traditional Gypsy folk songs.
Fox & Darling is the musical collaboration of European singer-songwriter Szara Fox and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Darling – a meeting of voice, story, and wandering spirit.
Szara Fox’s voice is shaped by the road, her songs steeped in the dust of travel, old-world stories, and the fire of Balkan rhythms. Her music carries echoes of distant lands, calling listeners toward forgotten places, fireside gatherings, and the quiet power of the untamed heart.
Andrew Darling brings a rich and expansive sonic landscape through soaring vocals, poetry, intricate harmonies, and his firebrand trumpet, weaving melodic lines that rise and fall like breath itself.
Together, Fox & Darling create a sound both timeless and weathered
5 – piece band
Szara Fox & The Midnight Secrets brings untamed, hot-blooded fire to the stage with their fierce blend of Balkan-Gypsy dance grooves and raw, hypnotic energy. They’ve lit up Newstead Live, Folk, Rhythm, Live, Renaissance and Steampunk Festival with their high-voltage performances. Fronted by the magnetic Szara Fox – a European singer-songwriter whose voice burns with passion and freedom – the Midnight Secrets are seasoned festival performers with a sound both mesmerising and irresistible.
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Szara Fox is an flamboyant Dutch songstress whose unique songwriting style is infused with Flamenco and Balkan Gypsy music. With a powerful, compelling voice and driving guitar style, Szara weaves an elemental sensuality through uptempo tales of travel, love, and freedom. A trained actress, Szara brings a theatrical and flamboyant sensibility to her dynamic performance style. Szara Fox has honed her craft over 20 years, performing throughout Australia and Europe, captivating audiences with her mix of original compositions and traditional Gypsy folk songs.
Over the last four years, the band has become a festival favourite, wowing audiences at Newstead Live Music Festival, Violet Town Music Festival, Folk Rhythm & Life Festival (FRL), Renaissance Festival, and Steampunk Festival, amongst others. A band of experienced performers, the Midnight Secrets feature the sublime talents of fierce and impassioned trumpeter Andrew Darling, virtuosic guitarist Nico Di Stefano, honey-fingered groove merchant Rory Wilson, and the rolling thunder of drummer Roderick McLeod. Between them they have performed with the likes of Things of Stone & Wood, Lothlorien, Dan Kelly, and Gareth Liddiard of The Drones. As a tightly honed and wildly creative unit, the Midnight Secrets provide stunning sonic ornamentation for the unique and spellbinding creations of flamboyant European songstress, Szara Fox.
Szara Fox & the Midnight Secrets Trio conjure a bold and hypnotic fusion of songs with Flamenco heat, Balkan fire, and Gypsy rhythm. Their sound is both exciting and poetic—an invitation to move, feel, and journey beyond the ordinary.
Fronted by Szara Fox, a European singer–songwriter with a voice rich in elemental sensuality, she channels stories of wanderlust, empowerment, and transcendence. Her evocative lyrics and rhythmic guitar form the soul of the project, weaving ancient threads through modern hearts.
She’s joined by two electrifying musicians, Nico Di Stefano, a masterful lead guitarist whose virtuous solos and dynamic textures ignite every performance, and Andrew Darling, a charismatic trumpet player and soaring vocalist whose bold brass tones bring cinematic drama and deep emotional charge.
Together, Szara Fox & the Midnight Secrets Trio deliver a transportive live experience—untamed, mesmerizing, and deeply alive.