Join five time ARIA Award winning artist Katie Noonan for what will be a super special “listening party” of her latest songs on Sunday 16 November at The Presynct, Nambour.
The songs will be officially released on Katie’s 30th studio album ‘alone but all one’ in early 2026.
The album is an intimate and poignant exploration of love in all its stages and features Katie’s first songwriting collaboration with acclaimed writer Trent Dalton.
“In late 2024, I found myself at the end of a life chapter after a long and deeply committed marriage,” Katie said.
“The separation was a profound emotional event, not marked by anger or dramatic rupture, but by a quiet, painful shift in identity, as someone whose entire adult life had been shared in partnership – as a wife, mother, collaborator. The sudden stillness left behind was very confronting and strange.
Katie said ‘alone but all one’ is her attempt to sit with that stillness – to honour it, explore it, and ultimately transform it.
“The project comes from a place of vulnerability and deep artistic clarity. It is not about naming or shaming – it is not a reckoning or a public unravelling. It is about what happens quietly, after the noise. About the moments where we ask ourselves: Who am I now, and how do I live from here?” she said.
“This body of work is designed not to offload, but to offer,” Katie said.
“I’ve noticed some of the most meaningful audience moments have come when people feel what I’ve put into song is something they’ve lived but haven’t spoken aloud. That sense of shared experience is incredibly powerful.
Serendipitously earlier this year, Katie’s friend author/journalist Trent Dalton gifted her 156 pages of unpublished lyrics to dream with.
“This has resulted in a new song cycle ‘Just for Dreaming’ for my a cappella vocal quartet AVÉ Australian Vocal Ensemble, but I also felt myself drawn to some of Trent’s lyrics about the joy and wonder of new love, and his words gifted me succour in my darkest lonely hours,” she said.
“In this spirit of shared experience, half the album I wrote solo and the other half I wrote with dear Trent’s words, as it honours the birth of love, while I reflect the reimagined love after divorce.
“This album is for anyone who’s gone through a life shift – not just separation, but grief, uncertainty, or quiet reinvention. It’s music for sitting with things. For remembering we’re not alone, even in solitude. It’s personal, but I hope it will resonate in a way that becomes collective,” Katie said.
‘Alone but all one’ is a quiet turning inward – a return to something essential. Musically it is very stripped back – just Katie, her piano and a string quartet, recorded live in her lounge room on Gubbi Gubbi Country in the hills behind Nambour.
It feels like a deep breath before the next chapter. The creative intention is clear: to honour this moment, share it with care, and trust that others will feel themselves in it too.
The 16 November listening party will see two intimate concerts – at 2pm and 5pm. Katie will be accompanied by the River Suite String Quartet and supported by songbird Alys Ffion.
TICKETS: $50 seated, $40 standing and $30 under 18 through thepresynct.com.au
