Tracey Barnett

With a batch of new songs and a refreshed outlook on her musicality, WA musician Tracey Barnett is more motivated than ever to follow her singer/songwriter destiny.

“I have to,” she affirms, “and not for anyone else's reasons. As cliche as it sounds, it feels like a calling, and I don't feel that I'm completely living my life truthfully if I'm not creating what I'm hearing and continuing to share it with people.”

Music has always meant the stuff of life to Tracey, who has recorded and released two EPS, two albums plus numerous singles and played hundreds of headlines and festival shows over the last 14 years.

Born and raised in Bridgetown, an idyllic setting for childhood if ever there was, Barnett’s early musical life was that of piano lessons and her mother’s beloved Slim Dusty records. Then in 1993, a musical renaissance occurred when the inaugural Blues at Bridgetown festival was staged. Inspired by the musicians that came to town, there was soon plenty of budding young musicians and a local school that recognised that and supported it in their curriculum.