Following the sell-out success of her tour last year, British singer-songwriter Emily Maguire returns to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland with a series of concerts in October.
Known for her highly emotive songs and spellbinding live performances, Emily is a contemporary folk artist who was plucked from obscurity by American legend Don McLean and toured all the major concert halls in the UK including the Royal Albert Hall.
Described as ’music for the soul’ (Maverick Magazine), her songs have been played on national radio in both the UK and Australia, as well as being featured in Hollywood films and a global Greenpeace climate change campaign.
Emily has released six albums on Shaktu Records, the record label she set up with her husband Christian Dunham back in 2004, which they originally financed by making and selling goats cheese on the family farm in the Obi Obi valley. After 12 years away in the UK, they are delighted to be back home again.
Her experience of mental health recovery has strongly influenced her songwriting.
She is a patron of the UK mental health charity Restore and in 2019 she won an international award for public service and advocacy for her work performing in UK mental health hospitals.
Emily’s acoustic style of music is intensely melodic, influenced both by her classical training as a cellist and by Christian’s background in jazz.
With a supremely expressive voice, thought-provoking lyrics and songs ’bathed in raw, emotional power’ (Guitarist Magazine), Emily’s music is a hauntingly beautiful and profoundly moving experience not to be missed.
Emily and Christian perform as an acoustic duo on this Hinterland tour.
They are playing The Majestic Theatre, Pomona on Saturday 15 October, Eudlo Hall on Saturday 22 October and Maleny Community Centre on Saturday 29 October.
Tickets are $30/$25 concessions and are available from TryBooking through her website at emilymaguire.com
