Sara Storer is back on the road. With her four young sons growing up (the eldest is seven), she has started touring again, and she is heading our way.
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On May 26, she is playing at Armidale City Bowling Club, which is the only New England show in a trip which will also take her to the Mid North Coast.
After releasing Lovegrass in 2013, Sara had planned to tour, but it didn’t happen.
“It was too difficult, the children were too young and they were just too dependant, whereas now they’re all a little bit older and I can head off for a weekend and it’s not too stressful.”
Last year she released her latest album, Silos. After getting back on the road by playing shows in southern NSW last month, Sara said she was enjoying playing in front of live audiences again.
“It’s such a buzz to sing to a silent room, and know they’re listening to your every word. That’s when you realise how important it is to write a good song, you know, something that’s new and different and hasn’t been said before, and is said in your own way.”
Sara made her name in country music as a bush balladeer, one of only a handful of female artists in the genre, and one of the most successful among both male and female artists.
Now living near Albury, she said the move to the Riverina had rekindled that aspect of her music.
“Dave and I lived up in Darwin for seven years, and that was a wonderful place that drew a lot of inspiration for songs. But being down south, and being out on a property now, we’ve got a few cows and the kids have got plenty of space and it’s a 20-minute drive into town.
“And my family aren’t too far away, they’re in central west NSW, and they’re farmers, so I feel little bit more inspired by the bush again and its stories.”
That has come through on the most recent album, which Sara said has more of a rural theme than her most recent albums before it.
“I do get really passionate about that, because I grew up a farmer’s daughter, and I’ve been through all the good and bad times that country life gives the people who want to live it.”
Sara said winning two Golden Guitars in January, provided as big a thrill as when she won her first 16 years ago.
“You do put a lot of work into writing your songs and releasing an album that you feel is the best that you can do, so it’s nice to be acknowledged,” Sara said.