JANE GERMAIN |
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Jane Germain’s musical journey has taken her from her hometown, Sydney, to Western Australia and all the way back to her Chinese heritage (her Manchurian great-grandmother married a Scottish missionary). She’s played all the styles from folk to funk that express her emotions and musicality in a career that’s won four consecutive WA Country Music Awards (with Ian Simpson), and an invitation for them to represent Australia at the 2010 World Expo in China.
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RACHEL DILLON |
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On her eleventh birthday Rachel became the proud owner of a bright orange typewriter, a stack of foolscap and a spare ink ribbon. In those days she’d stay holed up in her room for hours on end, inventing high adventure, sci-fi yarns. She kept writing fiction through her teens, poetry and short stories through her young adult life and essays through uni and a marriage, never really sharing her writing with anyone. Then as her marriage was coming to an end, Rachel picked up a guitar for the first time, the writing turned to songs, and for some reason she decided to start sharing. Recording an EP of six songs, playing to her family for the first time and finding confidence on stage marked a huge turning point in her life. Now, six years on, having completed what she calls her "apprenticeship" in performing, and with several songs nominated for awards, Rachel is building on her songwriting skills and working in a number of collaborations, one of them being the Free Range Chicks with friend and mentor, Jane Germain and up and coming Bluegrass fiddler, Elisa Siipola. |
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ELISA SIIPOLA |
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Elisa's bio to follow.......... But what I can say is.. that apart from being drop dead gorgeous, she is an amazing fiddle player (and pianist..) We'll have to wait for her to elaborate on her musical career... sigh... |
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