Since their last Folkie, the siblings have been busy recording a new Little Stevies album and building their children's repertoire through their side project the Teeny Tiny Stevies.

Their new 'grown up' album Stopped Wishing I Was Somewhere Else dives deep into their gutsy, pop folk sound and drips with honest country-tinged tones reminiscent of Sara Storer and The Indigo Girls.

Sibylla said having children changed the way the sisters approached their songwriting.

"We haven't been able to get back to Port Fairy Folk Festival for a while and we're absolutely thrilled to finally get back," she said.

"We'll be returning this year with a Little Stevies Show and two Teeny Tiny Stevies shows, which is our kids music offshoot which in some circles has become more famous than The Little Stevies!

"We've recorded two new albums since our last Folkie show and we're really excited to bring so many new songs to the sets."

She said the creative process behind writing children's music was surprisingly similar to writing their other songs.

"Apart from the lyrics there's nothing different really, a good song is a good song," Sibylla said.

"When you've got young kids you really live through them and it got to the point when we were doing overseas tours and couldn't maintain the lifestyle with kids.

"We didn't want to not be musicians and work in that space after spending so many years honing our craft, and there was a three-year-old at the time we had to teach to use a toilet, and so the Teeny Tiny Stevies was born," she said with a laugh.

"When we approached that songwriting we thought about how when we were kids and were learning every single word on the Disney soundtrack, we wanted our songs to have useful messages that really meant something and were purposeful."

The Stephen sisters grew up surrounded by music and have an uncanny knack for captivating their audience by being delightfully and unapologetically themselves.

The Little Stevies are well known around the Australian festival circuit for their fun loving between-song banter and storytelling of everyday life. With a deep, full and warmly polished sound, sweet layered harmonies and irresistible melodies, the sisters' music tends to leave a lasting impression.

"With Port Fairy especially there are songs that have really lived a life down there for both us and the audience so we'll play some of those as well as try out a few new songs," Sibylla said.

"We love to tell stories and we always go overtime because we talk too much.

"For me as an audience member some of my favourite live performances are the ones where the artist really connects with the audience.

"We have been doing this for a long time and we've started self-producing a lot of our own music which has been really empowering, especially at this age and having that realisation that there's not much we can't do."

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