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Listed below are our past Featured Artists. To read their story click on the story title. |
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| » | Art for Heart's Sake | | Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. | | |
| » | The Art of Spirit | | Meet Meloney Steyl, expressing her passion and faith through paint and pen. | | |
| » | Magic Music Mamma | | Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. | | |
| » | Jewellery Gems. | | Meet Pauline Murray, decorating women everywhere with her exquisite jewellery. | | |
| » | Market Art Magic | | Meet Adrienne Parker, blending pattern and colour to create inspiring works of art. | | |
| » | Glamorous Glass | | Meet Glenys Fentiman shining a light on the diversity and beauty of glass art. | | |
| » | Inspiring Images | | Meet Tracy Woolley a photographer and business woman inspiring people all over the world. | | |
| » | Outback Artist | | Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. | | |
| » | Soulful Singer | | Meet Delany Delaney, a mesmerizing and magical performer, weaving her magic through song. | | |
| » | Natural Beauty | | Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. | | |
| » | Forming the Female | | Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. | | |
| » | Funky Females | | Meet Denise Daffara, celebrating the light and joy of women in her funky, fun, colourful paintings | | |
| » | Captivating Ceramics | | Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. | | |
| » | Painting Pleasures | | Meet Natalie Dyer, diversely expressing the beauty of life in sensational works of art | | |
| » | Sensational Sistas | | Meet Louise and Sarah, sisters in life, string and song, creating beautiful music together. | | |
| » | Alluring Abstracts | | Meet Christine Maudy, French born abstract artist creating soulful abstracts and striking colours. | | |
| » | Sculpting Sensations | | Meet Anne-Laure Demene, superbly sculpting form and fauna in a variety of mediums. | | |
| » | Mayan Magic | | Meet Heidi Woodman, ceramic artist blending ancient wisdom with intuitive impulses, expressed in earth material. | | |
| » | Divine Drawing | | Meet Francie Griffin, using her artistic and intuitive gifts to contact and draw your spirit guide | | |
| » | Quintessential Quilts | | Meet Cynthia Morgan, creating tantalizing textile art, specializing in art quilts. | | |
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| Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. |
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| How long have you been singing? Since I was a child, I grew up in a family of singers, so I have a natural ability for harmony, and I was in my first band at about 16…but didn’t really take it seriously until 1987 when I was student on Bondi Youth Wave. |
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| How have you developed your singing?
Mainly by playing live, spending a number of years as a backing vocalist with lots of different people, going to millions of gigs and watching, inspiration and learning from other musicians….. lots of listening to music and my favourite artists . I am self taught and have studied technique in the last few years, and had a wonderful mentor in my duo partner of 6 years, Sue Bond…who is a wonderful jazz singer and teacher.
Still dreaming about going to the Conservatorium
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in your singing? So many things…..My dad Tony, and his four part vocal quartet from the 60s and 70s…The Freeways who were big on the Sydney Club circuit…..and my grandfather Henry, also Aussie singer Kevin Bennett of the Flood who is my favourite singer in the world, Bonnie Raitt, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, and too many artists and bands to name that I love the music of and draw inspiration from. And my love of Blues music, that has grown since I started playing 5 years or so ago with local legend piano player Al Hensley of the Big Easy
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| What do you hope to give with your art?
To an audience……Enjoyment, entertainment, a release from day to day stress, fun and to my students….empowerment, confidence, passion, and to share the gift I have with them so they develop it for themselves, and enjoy it as much as I do.
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| What do you get from your art?
A lot of fun, fulfilment of my passion to play music with other musicians, and challenge to always improve, meeting great people, a buzz entertaining an audience, and a sense of satisfaction and joy when I see others learning and loving music.
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| What has been your greatest moment with your singing?
Many years ago I was singing for some kids with disabilities at a special school in Sydney, and a young boy there who had never spoken took a liking to my keyboard, so I sat with him for a little while and let him play it…he loved it so I gave it to him, and not long after that he began to speak.
A high point for me as a performer was playing sax with Adelaide blues legend Chris Finnen at Sunshine Coast Blues Festival a couple of years ago, and working now with my band The Blues Shakers.
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| Where would you like to take your performing?
Festivals around Australia, and I’d love to go back to the USA and spend some more time there just hanging out and playing. I plan to record an album of original songs in 2009 too. |
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up singing?
Start singing !!! Sing along with everything, find a teacher to guide you in what you need to work on, and do a lot of listening to music. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? I am determined, passionate, a bit stubborn and a Scorpio !!
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
About 50 great women !! |
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| Is there anything else you would like to let us know about you?I play drums, guitar and sax, and I am a coordinator on the Sunshine Coast Council Music Mentoring Program now in its 4th year. I also run In SingC…a contemporary and blues choir, and play in The Banana Republic, The Blues Shakers, and Blues Martini and run Noosa Blues Club.
I have raised my sons Josh, aged 20 and Brendan aged 19. We have had a great challenge as Brendan has Autism.
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