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Arion Fickel is a Snowy Mountains based multi instrumentalist/ award winning songwriter/musician/producer hailing from Byron Bay NSW Ari composes heartfelt and melancholy folk songs, woven together with intricate finger plucked guitar/banjo styles and layered vocal harmonies. Ari cut his teeth as the front man of Brisbane alt folk band Winter Solstice, Which Formed in 2010. they released their debut EP and began gigging in Brisbane, and the next few years saw them playing on festival lineups alongside Matt Corby and Last Dinosaurs, and supporting renowned local acts such as Inland Sea and The Mouldy Lovers. since then Ari has been busy writing, recording/producing and releasing new folk music, and in 2024 had song selected for the Song writers prize which took him to Sydney to play the stage at the grand final.