Five-time ARIA award-winning local artist Katie Noonan will soon take to the stage with her quartet in The Brewery at The Imperial Hotel.
Premiering all new music and featuring son Dexter Hurren on drums, this will be a special night of music on Friday 6 August, supported by songstress Sarah King. Fifteen years ago Katie Noonan recorded her debut solo album ‘Skin’ in Sydney and Los Angeles while four to eight months pregnant and holding the hand of an awesome one-year-old boy called Dexter.
Fast forward to now and Katie’s new band features her 16-year-old son Dexter on drums.
Joining the mum and son team is extraordinary bassist/producer Steele Chabau and guitar supremo Brodie Graham.
Since releasing her all-originals, crowd-funded and critically acclaimed album, ‘Transmutant’, Katie has been building up a new body of work for her next album, and alongside Steele, Brodie and Dexter, will be presenting the first live iterations of these new tunes at the Eumundi show.
You can check out Steele’s work at steelechabau.com and you can follow Dexter’s drumming at dexter_hurren on Instagram.
Over the past 20 years, Katie Noonan has proven herself one of Australia’s most hardworking, versatile and prolific artists.
Named one of the greatest Australian singers of all time by the Herald Sun, Katie has produced 20 studio albums throughout her career, with seven times platinum record sales under her belt and 27 ARIA award nominations that span diverse genres.
She first came into the nation’s view in 2002 while fronting indie rock band george – their debut album, the two-times platinum ‘Polyserena’, rolled in at number one in the ARIA charts. They ultimately won the ARIA award for Breakthrough Artist that same year.
Since then, Katie has performed by invitation for members of the Danish and British Royal families, and His Holiness the 13th Dalai Lama.
She was an inaugural recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2011, an honour awarded to candidates that display outstanding talent and exceptional courage.
In 2018, Katie took on the Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies as music director, performing to more than a billion viewers worldwide. Katie is a rare songwriter; equally at home leading a symphony orchestra as she is performing in a small jazz club, with the ability to flourish in any genre – whether that’s in gentle folk storytelling or in the grandiosity of an operatic performance.
Katie has also collaborated with Australian electronic producers Flight Facilities on their acclaimed 2014 record ‘Down To Earth’, and in 2016 she joined Perth hip-hop artist Drapht on his track Raindrops.
TICKETS: Pre-sale $50 (+ booking fee) through Oztix. 18+ event. No door sales. Doors open 7.30pm. To comply with Covid-safe practices, there is seating at this event.
