In January 2011 I was invited to cross the Tasman and perform a solo show at the Festival of Lights in New Plymouth, New Zealand. It was magical! "At night, fluorescent pebble paths sparkle beneath excited feet, majestic trees and plants glow, waterfalls and lakes shimmer and shine beneath a ... Read More
I was recently delighted to receive the news that I was the recipient of an ArtStart grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. This grant will allow me to travel to the USA to attend an orchestration course, also to do a mentorship with an incredible film composer who I have admired for a long ... Read More
I'll be performing the Australian National Anthem at tomorrow night's Four Nations Rugby League match in Melbourne, between Australia and England! Aussies can tune in to Nine Network (or Fox Sports) at 6:30pm to catch the anthem, and the match will also be televised internationally on various ... Read More
I'm over the moon to announce that I'll be performing my show Angela Little's CELTIC FIRE at the famous Woodford Folk Festival this year! The festival is the largest of its kind in Australia, and is truly an event of international standing. Held over six days and six nights from Dec 27th ... Read More
I had the pleasure of being invited to sing at the Closing Ceremony for this national conference of festival organisers which was held at Woodfordia (sacred home of the great Woodford Folk Festival!) from 2-4 September. Here are a couple of photos of the event, and there are some more on ... Read More
On August 20th we performed my show 'CELTIC FIRE' at the Street Theatre in Canberra to a sold-out crowd! What a fantastic night we had. Thanks to all the brilliant musicaians, theatre staff and audience who made it such a wonderful event! ... Read More
I was recently really delighted to have one of my Ophelia of the Spirits songs, 'Little Princess' used in a documentary called 'The Art of Walking', which was distributed with The Age newspaper in Melbourne & the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney. You can watch a trailer for the doco ... Read More
I went to Port Fairy Folk Festival for the first time this year! We were performing there with my new show. The highlight for me was definitely the fact that we got to play an acoustic show in the heritage-listed St John's Church! It was amazing, and just topped off a weekend of incredible ... Read More
I contributed some original music (watch out for the 'Exorcist Dice' moment!) and other musical suggestions to this short film by Paul Watters, which was a finalist in Tropfest, a massive achievement!.... and before anyone asks, no, I didn't do the show tune music at the end :) ... Read More
I recently lent my voice to the music picture book 'Poems for Piotr', which was a collaboration between visual artist Lang Leav (Akina), composer Cyrus Meurant and myself. Lang drew all the illustrations and wrote some beautifully mournful poetry, Cyrus set the poems to music, and I performed the ... Read More