Following the success of Too Much Space and being a Toyota Star Maker grand finalist, Noosa artist Sari Abbott continues to kick goals with her new single, Feels Like Home.
The single, released on 26 May, has been added to ABC Country, ABC’s Grass Roots program, Australian Country Radio, had airplay on KIX Country, ABC Sunshine Coast, Sea FM, Zinc FM, and has enjoyed four weeks on the AMRAP Regional Chart thanks to support from community radio across the nation.
Sari is again a finalist 2023 Gympie Music Muster Talent Search and Green Brothers Peter Blundell Memorial Country on Keppel Talent Search, Feels Like Home is an anthem for all music festivals.
Feels Like Home, was born at a music festival when the Sunshine Coast singer-songwriter was sitting around a fire with friends singing and playing their guitars, and no one wanted to go back home.
“Sitting in that circle of friends, it really hit me that the next time I was going to see all these people wouldn’t be until the next music festival, and being with them all in that moment felt like home,” Sari said.
“I then took my pencilled lyrics to a Song Culture workshop at Queensland University of Technology and got put in a group with James Johnston, Jared Adlam, and Nolan Wynne. I told them I had this idea, but wasn’t completely sold on what I’d written so far and wanted to make it 100 per cent what I wanted to say.”
After working on the song with the team of fellow artists, they recorded half of it on the day and later finished it off with Jared Adlam at his studio in the Gold Coast hinterland and features James Johnston on backing vocals.
“I am so happy with it and I want people to be able to listen to the song and allow it to take them back to moment in time where they may of felt the same,” Sari said.
“You’re sitting around a fire with mates, chatting about the awesome night you’ve had and your mate is playing guitar – if you close your eyes, you can picture that.”
Sari said she wanted her songs and music to take people to a moment or memory.
“The main message for this song is that sometimes a group of people feels more like home than a place,” she said.
“It was the same when I was at The Academy (of Country Music), I wasn’t homesick at all, because those friends feel like home and when you go camping or hanging with mates, it doesn’t matter where you are, you feel safe and happy.”
The Noosa artist would love Feels Like Home to become an anthem for a festival because it sums up all those feelings of togetherness and a love of music.
