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Perth Now
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Katie Noonan to premiere new Tim Winton-inspired performance
ARIA award-winning musician Katie Noonan will lead the Australian Vocal Ensemble to premiere a bold new selection of songs inspired by iconic author Tim Winton for a performance on Cottesloe's foreshore. Soprano Noonan, who founded AVE in 2021, will be joined by world-class vocals from mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell, tenor Louis Hurley and bass-baritone Andrew O'Connor for an afternoon and evening of music at The Heritage Collective at 40 Marine Parade. Described as capturing Australia's landscapes and subtleties of modern life, Noonan said the new songs were be a collection of work close to WA's heart. Your local paper, whenever you want it. 'We are thrilled to be finally making our WA debut on Noongar Country at the beautiful Heritage Collective at Cottesloe Beach, with a bespoke program of works featuring 100 per cent WA composers,' she said. The performance will include compositions by Emma Jayakumar, Ruben Davies, Lachlan Skipworth and Aaron Wyatt, who have reshaped Winton's storytelling into a sonic experience. Since its establishment, AVE has commissioned 32 new Australian works from 27 composers, including 12 female and three Indigenous artists, as well as producing two full albums. 'We cannot wait to present these acapella vocal quartet works alongside some Renaissance and Baroque masterworks and fill these inspiring spaces with the notes of our intimate sound world,' Noonan said. The premiere comes ahead of Noonan's highly-anticipated Grace tour — a recreation of Jeff Buckley's only studio album released in 1994. The 20-date Australian tour will kick off in September at the Astor Theatre Perth in Mt Lawley. Tickets for The Heritage Collective event are available at
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Aussie singer Katie Noonan announces national tour - with a surprising twist
Katie Noonan has announced an upcoming national tour - with a surprising twist. The popular Aussie singer, 47, recently shared a post to social media revealing she would be touring Australia later this year - to cover late US singer Jeff Buckley. The former George vocalist is set to perform the late singer's iconic 1994 album Grace in full at venues across the country. The tour will commence at Perth 's Astor Theatre on Thursday, September 18th, promising an enchanting musical journey through Buckley's soul-stirring compositions. From there, she will weave her magic through 20 cities and regional centres, including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The Brisbane-born singer will wrap up her tour on Saturday, November 8 at Civic Theatre in Newcastle. Katie told The Music that Buckley's seminal 1994 album - which was the only one he recorded before his death in 1997 at 30 - helped define her musical career. 'Never had I heard a sound world like this, never had I heard a band that unique and never had I heard a voice that expressive, exploratory and exciting,' she said. 'The album is the biggest influence on my musical journey and was an enormous inspiration for my debut album, Polyserena, and my 29 subsequent studio albums.' She will be supported by Australian singers Jack Carty and Georgia Fields. Katie rose to fame in 2002 as the lead vocalist of Brisbane indie-rock band George, whose debut album Polyserena debuted at number one on the ARIA charts. It subsequently achieved double platinum status, and earned the group the ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist. In April, Katie shared a heartbreaking update on social media after revealing a year of loss. The former George vocalist is set to perform the late singer Jeff Buckley's iconic 1994 album Grace in full at venues across the country The singer took to Instagram to shed light on what has been a rough 12 months, lamenting the death of her father, the breakdown of her marriage and the crumbling of her oldest band. 'So much profound grief and loss this last year,' she wrote in an Instagram post, accompanied with a sombre selfie of the George front-woman in a black and white hue. 'I am so deeply hurt and exhausted, but there is great solace in knowing I am not alone as I walk this new path - alone yet all one.' She revealed that the split from her husband and bandmate Isaac Hurren resulted in the simultaneous loss of her marriage and band that they had created together, Elixir. Katie added that in 2020 she had been relying on the government's JobKeeper payment scheme to stay financially afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic. The musician began losing income when her tours were cancelled, which she had to work hard to recover from. Katie told the Courier Mail: 'I was crippled by the enormous financial loss, very significant loss, as an independent producer. JobKeeper has been a life saver and I was lucky enough to get on that.' The ARIA-award winning artist was due to go on tour before the lockdown and travel restrictions were enforced across Australia. While she has been lucky to receive the government support, she noted that the industry as a whole will likely take a long time to bounce back.
