Sunshine Tip and John McAll come together at Mamma Chen's to warm you up with their original tunes on a wintry Sunday afternoon.

Acoustic trio Sunshine Tip (Dave Bowers, Alice Garner and Dee Hannan) bring their alt-country, melodic melancholia to Footscray. Long-time residents of the Western suburbs will remember the site evoked by the band's name... a place where ugliness and beauty collided and unique stuff could be made from other people's rejects. The trio's interweaving guitar, cello and mandolin and harmonising voices and their well-honed lyrics about the lost spaces where city meet country and the complications of growing up, will ease you through the afternoon.

Sunshine Tip will play the songs off their recently released EP We were the endlings, as well as a selection of new originals they've been working on.

Pianist John McAll will kick things off with a solo set of his original Vignettes, short compositions drawing on classical and jazz soundworlds. John will then join Sunshine Tip on stage for a few tunes from their EP.

John will have just returned from a tour of Italy with the Black Sorrows, with whom he plays regularly in Australia and abroad. A VCA and MCM graduate and founding member of the David Chesworth Ensemble, John now plays with the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra at a diverse range of music festivals, performs and writes for Eugene Hamilton and the Money, and performs live jazz regularly in Melbourne with Brian Abrahams' District 6, Nichaud Fitzgibbon, Rebecca Barnard and Jane Clifton. He has worked with Gregory Porter, Wycliffe Gordon, Ross Wilson, David Campbell, Debra Byrne, Renee Geyer, Nina Ferro, Ruby Carter and Vince Jones.

Tickets $15 + BF, $20 on the door