Rebecca Moore

Rebecca Moore is an award winning singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music is described as traversing the plains between Led Zeppelin’s Battle of Evermore and Stevie Nicks’ Gold Dust Woman. Recently featured on the front cover of Illawarra magazine 2508, Rebecca and her band are gaining a lot of recognition for their gutsy blues, roots and folk rock sound. Having recently performed her original music in a contemporary collaboration project with the Steel City Strings Orchestra, Rebecca is set to launch her long awaited album, 'Return', in 2016. The band currently features ex. Mental As Anything guitarist Mike Caen. Rebecca has supported many great artists including the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Christine Anu, Archie Roach, Sarah McLeod (The Superjesus), Jon Stevens (Noiseworks) and the Afro Celt Sound System at the Sydney Opera House. Driven both by her music and a strong social conscience, Rebecca is co-ordinating a series of concerts to generate funds for Burmese children orphaned by the devastating Cyclone Nargis of 2008. These orphans attend the Phaung Daw Oo Orphanage in Mandalay, which supports over 7000 children, and provides one proper meal every day for street kids. In 2010 Rebecca traveled over 11000 km in a caravan in Australia on an extensive solo tour with her PA, guitar, piano, mandolin - and a collection tin for the Burmese orphans. Donations from this tour alone raised over $7,000, and combined with money from the concert series, over $22,000 in total has been collected for these lost children of Burma. Rebecca also toured the UK in 2010, was a finalist in the 2010 Toyota Star Maker Competition and placed 4th in the Folk Category of the ASA Songwriting Competition. She was a finalist in the 2009 Melbourne Songwriter’s Competition, nominated Best Female Vocalist in and Top 5 Blues act in the 2008 ABC Newcastle Music Awards, and awarded an APRA Professional Development Award in the Rock category. She is a performer and writer of distinct individuality, and an inspiring creative presence. Due for release in 2017, Rebecca's forthcoming album features songs that highlight the beauty of ancient folk music combined with rock instrumentation and the blues. Her new album was recorded with Grammy-nominated Afro Celt Sound System producer/engineer/writer Martin Russell, who describes Rebecca as "Australia's best-kept secret". "The artistic love child of folk singer Joni Mitchell and stadium rocker Robert Plant."