FANNY Lumsden has been one busy lady.
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From touring with Paul Kelly, to playing at over 200 regional halls as part of her popular Country Halls Tour, and of course motherhood, it's been a wild ride for the singer-songwriter.
Now, the eight-time Golden Guitar winner is marking ten years since the Country Halls Tour began, with one big show in Tamworth.
"We're calling it the One Almighty Country Halls Tour," she told the Leader.
"We've got a few special guests that are going to pop up during the show and we're going to be pulling out all the bells and whistles of your typical country halls tour, except it's in the theatre."
While many would like to write off the past year, Lumsden celebrated her biggest year ever in 2021 with her ARIA and five-times Golden Guitar winning album Fallow.
Recorded in a stone hut on the western side of the Snowy Mountains, the album is filled with stories and folklore of a region steeped in history.
But faced with lockdowns, she wasn't able to share the stories in person.
Instead, she followed it up with Fallow part two - Fallow & Variations.
We're going to be pulling out all the bells and whistles.
- Fanny Lumsden
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"Instead of releasing an acoustic version of the album, which a lot of people do, I thought why don't we release a different version of the album," she said.
"Because we didn't get to tour as much as we would have liked to share those songs and stories in person, this was a different way to explore the songs."
The album features reinterpretations of the songs on Fallow, such as singles This Too Shall Pass, Dig, Fierce, These Days, Grown Ups, Tidy Town and more.
"For example, the song Dig, just has a horns section and drums, so it has this really rambunctious marching band feel to it, and then nothing else," Lumsden said.
"On Fallow we had a beautiful Uilleann pipes player, which is the Irish bagpipes, he's from Scotland and he gave it a really Celtic vibe on those songs. My family is Scottish so it was really nice to tie all that back together.
"I think it allowed us to be a little bit more daring and we could explore a lot more because the songs already exist as they are."
She said coming back to Tamworth for the 50th country music festival the excitement in the air is palpable.
"There is a lot of optimism, people are excited and it's really nice to see that it's not just one-sided, it's not just the artists that are excited," she said.
"It's people that love music and everybody's excited to go back to music. We found that at our country halls that we've been doing - everyone's so excited to be back out and enjoying things together."
Lumsden performs at Tamworth's Capitol Theatre today at 11am.
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