Sara Storer with Special Guest Live @ The Golden Vine Hotel Bendigo

THURSDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2025

SARA STORER
Writing from the heart and singing from the soul, surveying the people and land around you and
letting stories inspire your creativity and guide your craft. That’s what makes a songwriter genuine
and honest and ARIA 21-time Golden Guitar winner Sara Storer has consistently shown she
embodies those qualities.
In fact, she’s done that right from the start, more than 20 years ago when she released her first
album Chasing Buffalo and a reason why she is widely celebrated as one of Australia’s greatest singer
songwriters.
Born in the Mallee in country Victoria, Sara studied at Melbourne University, wrote her first song in
Western Queensland, worked as a schoolteacher in a small Indigenous community in Kalkarindji in
the Northern Territory and now lives with her husband Dave and 4 sons in Darwin.
The land, family and an innate and empathetic understanding of what it is to live in Australia are
themes that run strongly through Sara’s songs.
Sara has gained a loyal following across Australia and has earnt high praise for her unique and
authentic songwriting from the likes of Paul Kelly, Colin Hay, Shane Howard, Josh Cunningham (The
Waifs), Kev Carmody and John Williamson who have also recorded duets with her.
Paul Kelly best described Sara’s songwriting talents when he said "You know she's paid attention,
heard the bush waking up in the morning, listened to the worries thrashed out at the kitchen table,
smelt dry summer wheat up close, dreamed of faraway places in a bedroom with a window on a big
sky, driven miles on dirt and bitumen and fallen in and out of love. She's found her own way to sing
the stories that are all around her and then inside her bubbling out. She doesn't copy over-emotive,
fake sincere twangy country singers from overseas. She's found her own restraint and steel and lets
her songs do their sweet, sly work.
Sara is one of a few Australian artists who at a relatively young age, has earned the moniker of
‘legend’. Iconic ARIA Hall of Fame member John Williamson backed this claim up when he said “Sara
has a unique way of seeing and expressing her observations of love and life in the bush. She is a
songwriter who will be remembered beyond her lifetime.”

This is One Acoustic Performance you won't want to miss........