Amber Lawrence -Friday 8th September 2023 — 6 x Times Golden Guitar winner, Australian singer-songwriter, Amber Lawrence is one of Australia’s most celebrated and hardest working country artists, and just been announced the 2023 Female Artist of the Year at the CMAA Golden Guitar Awards!

The Tamworth Country music festival also saw Amber inducted into the prestigious Galaxy of Stars – alongside legends such as Kasey Chambers and Lee Kernaghan.

Amber is prolific as an artist, having released 7 studio albums and 3 children’s albums. Amber is constantly creating new music and touring this wide land of ours – she’s now about to enter the 20th year of her career, a remarkable achievement.

2022 was the biggest year of Amber’s career so far – releasing her ARIA Number 1 Country Album “Living for the Highlights”, as well as going on to receive a Best Country Album nomination at the 2022 ARIA Awards, plus 6 CMAA Golden Guitar nominations, including Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, which she won.

She was also the highest selling female artist for 2023.

Lachie Gill – Saturday 9th September

It was in 2022 that the music world received their introduction to Lachie Gill when he became a household name as winner of The Voice. Gifted with an arresting, mesmerising vocal ability, and an air of captivating natural charisma, Lachie impressed the music-lovers of Australia enough to take out the long-running show’s 11th season under the guidance of Rita Ora.

A music fan from a young age, Lachie was only 13 when he first began his musical journey, being gifted a ukulele from his grandfather, and soon embracing performances while at school. Falling in love with emotional acoustic compositions, names like Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi, and Dermot Kennedy soon began to influence his sound, and by 18, he was performing around coastal Victoria, juggling his passions between time spent playing AFL and studying to be a PE teacher.

Emerging from the victory of The Voice with the acclaimed single ‘Wasted Time’, Lachie teamed up with prolific producers Andy and Thom Mak in Avoca Beach to write for his next project. Harnessing his candid, emotive writing style, Lachie and the Mak brothers broke down these walls of vulnerability to craft the anthemic ‘Sad Summer’ which was added nationally to pop radio over Summer 2022/23, as well as the moving ballad ‘Right People Wrong Time’ featuring singer-songwriter Elaskia.

More to come.