Gretta Ziller

First impressions aren’t always right. If you’ve been foolish enough to nail down the sound of acclaimed songwriter Gretta Ziller, then prepare to have the rug pulled out from under you. Queen of Boomtown, her stunning debut record, defies categorisation and demands repeated listens. Ziller’s sound may bear the hallmarks of classic Americana music but its essence is far more diverse, with roots spanning jazz, blues, rock, pop and classical. Since it’s release Queen of Boomtown has garnered recognition with industry & fans alike, Queen of Boomtown was long-listed for the Australian Music Prize, was a finalist in the 2018 Golden Guitar Awards; Age Music Victoria Awards, and the album received rave reviews from press, including Rhythms Magazine and a 4 star review from Rolling Stone Magazine. Alan Boyle is an Irish singer-songwriter who calls Australia home, although raised on the north Atlantic coast of Ireland, there is something of that wild country in in the ragged passion of his music. Part of the same burgeoning singer-songwriter scene in Dublin that produced Glen Hansard and Damien Rice, he spent an entire winter busking on Dublin's Grafton Street earning cigarettes from students, abuse from junkies and a tenner from Bono (once). But a love-affair with sunshine and a year-long trek around Australia in an ancient canary-yellow Renault 12 led to a permanent move to Brisbane. Since then he has opened shows for artists as diverse as Mark Seymour, Steve Poltz, Busby Marou, Fionn Regan, Mick Flannery and The Popes, been a Queensland Music Award nominee, shortlisted in the Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition and a finalist in both the International Songwriting Competition and the Telstra Road To Discovery. He continues to live, write and perform in Brisbane with blues/soul act Blues Arcadia.