Karen Knowles

Singing for and with Australia audiences with heartfelt gratitude and recognition, promoting unity with all people and all of creation Karen presents Karen Knowles In Concert – Songs & Stories of Australia. For this one night only event in Pomona Karen will be joined by her pianist Natasha Koch and the wonderful instrumentalist and harmonica player Justin Brady as her special guest. Justin is most well known for being a significant band member in the ARIA award winning band Things of Stone and Wood and has collaborated with Karen for many years. Doors and bar open 6pm. Show starts 7pm. Tickets $55 / $50 concession. Don’t miss this opportunity to see live one of Australia’s well loved and award winning performers. Full Description: In her most personal show yet award winning singer Karen Knowles presents Songs & Stories of Australia a concert celebrating the Australian music that we’ve grown to love - songs from artists such as Judith Durham, Olivia Newton John, Archie Roach, featuring many other much loved songs from artists such as John Farnham and Icehouse that sing up and connect us to this amazing land we call home. Singing for and with Australia audiences with heartfelt gratitude and recognition, promoting unity with all people and all of creation Karen presents Karen Knowles In Concert - Songs & Stories of Australia. For this one night only event in Pomona Karen will be joined by the wonderful instrumentalist and harmonica player Justin Brady as her special guest. Justin is most well known for being a significant band member in the ARIA award winning band Things of Stone and Wood and has collaborated with Karen for many years originally performing as part of the Big River cast and later featuring on television performances on Hey Hey it's Saturday, the Bert Newton Show and on some of Karen's studio recordings so Karen is very glad to have Justin join her for this special show to add another dynamic element in telling our shared stories through music.Karen has sung The Seekers repertoire extensively when touring with The Seekers as their lead singer in the early 1990s and has been singing Olivia’s music since her early teens on television. Through Karen’s work with reconciliation since the early 1990s she has sung I am Australian at various national events and was personally very moved by Archie Roach’s musical expression of connection to country especially in his latest work where he sings about all of us being born of One Song. Karen very much enjoys travelling and connecting to country when touring and some of her own compositions included in this show were written during such inspired times (as featured on her 7th and 8th studio albums Solid Ground & Sanctuary).  In this specially curated concert that celebrates what it means to be Australian Karen will perform I Honestly Love you, Let Me Be There; I’ll Never Find Another You, Morningtown Ride, Carnival Is Over; Under the Milky Way Tonight as well as Archie Roach’s gems Native Born and One Song and Karen’s own compositions Falling into You, Shipwreck and Solid Ground. Songs & Stories of Australia offers audiences an opportunity to be with each other to collectively celebrate the gift of being Australian while honouring various iconic Australian artists who have created music that has touched our hearts forming a much loved soundtrack to our lives. Join Karen and her band for this magical evening performing so many songs you know and love. This will be a concert to remember! “Your concert stays with me….I can’t put it into words….I keep thinking about it…what an incredible experience” - Audience member About Karen Knowles: Karen Knowles is an Australian singer and songwriter well known for her 6 year stint on Young Talent Time and for her long recording and performance career where she was the highest selling female artist in Australia for 2 consecutive years with gold and platinum albums to her credit. She was lead singer with The Seekers in the early 1990's, was appointed an inaugural Reconciliation Ambassador by the Reconciliation Council of Australia and acted as national patron of the Australian Girls Choir and has released 8 studio albums throughout her career. Karen appeared as a guest solo artist regularly on various television programs including Hey Hey it’s Saturday, The Don Lane Show, a regular judge on Bert Newton's New Faces and regularly performs at her In Concert performances nationally. Throughout her solo career she has released 8 studio recordings. Her most recent recordings Solid Ground and Sanctuary include various compositions written or co-written by Karen that are informed by her connection to country informed by her travels while touring. Karen continues to write and record new music informed by a listening ear to the world and still loves performing singing with the full gamut of expression gained by a life in song. For further details: www.karenknowles.com.au For all Karen's links please see: linktr.ee/karenknowles About Justin Brady: Justin Brady is well respected in the Australian music industry as an electrifying harmonica player. He is most well known as a multi-instrumentalist for one of Australia’s favourite ARIA Award winning bands, Things of Stone and Wood, and was the winner of the Golden Harmonica award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2006. Over the years Justin has toured Australia, Europe, the UK and Canada with Things of Stone and Wood and performed in the US with blues legend Guitar Shorty. Apart from recording several albums with ‘Things of Stone and Wood’, Justin is regularly sought after to feature with great Australian talents when recording albums. He has been a guest on albums for John Farnham, The Black Sorrows, James Reyne, Shane Howard, Jimmy Little, James Blundell and Karen Knowles.