Heather Stewart Band Biography
• Heather Stewart Trio EP 2008
• Get Your Fingers Off It! 2010 - Debut Album. Winner of VIC/TAS
2011 Best Debut Album, Best Female Artist for Stewart
original "Wayward Woman" 2011, and MBAS Best Self Produced
Album 2010.
• City With No Name Heather’s brand new upcoming release
*Album tracks available: www.heatherstewart.com.au/store
Acoustic country blues, cajun & australian folk influences and
heart-wrenching songs and stories
Heather Stewart Band mix acoustic vocal and fiddle blues with cajun
fiddle tunes and new orleans grooves. They feature Heather's
powerful vocals centre stage and moulded together with her intense
fiddle playing, the serious instrumental talents of Dan Dinnen and
Danny McKenna and one of Australia's most highly respected bassists
Leigh Barker. Heather's uncompromising line ups of world class
musicians and awesome tunes has gained audiences trust and respect
over the years. Following their successful EP in 2008, HS Trio released
"Get Your Fingers Off It!" to three major blues awards, rave reviews
and a quick sell-out of the first pressing.
Heather is a genuine country girl who grew up on a farm in Southern
NSW riding horses, mustering cattle and rousing in the shearing shed
before moving to Melbourne to become a musician. She completed a
Bachelor of Music (Hons), Graduate Diploma and Masters in violin and
voice and has travelled, studied and performed extensively around
Australia, Europe and the UK. Inspired by blues, cajun and jazz
musicians Andy Baylor, Peter Baylor, Julie O'Hara, George
Washingmachine and internationals Alvin Youngblood Heart and Corey
Harris, Heather formed the Heather Stewart Trio with talented
musicians Danny McKenna (Jeff Lang) and Dan Dinnen (MBAS Blues
Performer of the Year 2009). Together they found their own path
to performing and writing beautiful old acoustic blues, country, cajun
songs and instrumentals.
The band push each other's musical limits to find their best path. The
cookin' Live EP drove the Debut album "Get Your Fingers Off It! to tell
the story of varying musical roads creating new paths for acoustic
blues and fiddle tunes. Since this album the Heather Stewart band
have travelled and brought together more musical influences to
create a magic new album filled with revealing originals that are
never far from the dirt of the Australian countryside.
"Heather Stewart's voice will touch your heart with its strength,
sincerity and sass. She is an immensely talented violinist and writes
beautiful blues, fiddle tunes and roots songs that add a typically
Australian flavour to her favourite old American country blues and
cajun repertoire."
Recent Gigs & Festivals: Lomond Hotel, Retreat Hotel, Brunswick
Music Festival 2013 Street Party, Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival,
Port Fairy Folk Festival with Jimi Hocking, Mordialloc Blues by the
Bay, "Live at Lefties", SA tour 2011, Headliner Juke Joint Festival SA,
Broadbeach Blues (the crowd completely filled the street to listen to
their impromptu gig), Caravan Club, Drunken Poet, Penny Black,
Thornbury Theatre, Wesley Anne, The Gem, MBAS Blues Cruise &
Royal Standard Hotel.
Contact: info@heatherstewart.com.au