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Casual Fan is the musical project of five friends from Sydney, fronted by Nate Stephenson and Esther Ibrahim. With a love of the American folk tradition, the music of Casual Fan expands beyonds the borders of this genre, exploring diverse arrangements and themes of connection and loss, decorating simple frames with dissonance and complexity. Forming in mid-2019, just prior to a world of lockdowns and self-isolation, Casual Fan’s first EP, “I’ve Dreamt About These Days” was released in late 2020, with radio play on Triple J and Sydney’s FBi Radio, as well as over 1.5 million streams on Spotify. The band's sophomore EP, 2023's ‘Bono’s America’, developed upon the band's sound with a wider musical landscape. After returning from a summer spent working abroad in a remote Canadian town, in a spirit of reinvention, Casual Fan look to emerge in 2024 as an essential Australian guitar band, with songs up their sleeve that tell of heartbreak and finding one's place in the world.