Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley ~ Album Launch

Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley is based on Wadawurrung Country and has recently completed an album, engineered by Aria Award Winner Jeff Lang, and will launch it at The Coolroom on Saturday 21st September. It combines her stories of growing up in north Queensland as a descendant of ancestors blackbirded from Malaita Island in the Solomons. Songs also cover her family life with other mob being from Yidinji Country near Cairns, and even Jamaica.

Musician, Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley’s rich ancestry is Yidinji. Trudy’s unique lineage and love for country gives her a deep cultural platform to share stories through art, music, and theatre. Trudy's haunting vocals, melodies, tropical tempos & tribal beats reflects not only her influences and passion for her music, but also her desire to tell the stories of her rich ancestry from the cane-fields of Far North Queensland to the shores of Jamaica. This results in well crafted songs that have the added interest of fascinating stories which have been seldom told.

TFE has toured with Neil Murray's "Keep Rollin On" (2022) & "The Telling (2023/2-24) and Support Act for Liz Stringer returning from her  Europe/UK Tour in August 2023.  Also has performed along side Kavisha Mazzella.  She will be releasing her 1st solo album early August. 

As a visual artist, Trudy is a past member of PITCHA MAKIN FELLAS, Ballarat based indigenous art group. As an actor, Trudy performs in a traveling show titled FACING UP. As a musician, Trudy performs professionally with her musician husband Phil Edgeley. For the past twenty years they have toured throughout Australia, Europe, UK and the USA. In her own music, Trudy blends soul, gospel, work-song and tribal rhythms to share the stories of her people.

Presented as part of the 2024 World Music Series at The Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel.