Iconic Australian songwriter Neil Murray
playing a rare show in Adelaide this week!
DOWNLOAD LATEST SINGLE “KEEP ROLLING ON” (featuring YIRRMAL, EMMA DONOVAN & MATT WALKER) HERE
Neil Murray ADELAIDE & QUORN SHOWS
26 Aug 6pm
– with Jasmine Kimber
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Quorn Town Hall
20 Railway Terrace
Quorn SA
27 Aug 7:30pm
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The Gibson Stage
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel
59 Port Rd
Hindmarsh SA
Neil sings from the heart of the country” – Jim Moginie, Midnight Oil
“Neil Murray’s an incredible storyteller whether he’s writing poems, songs or novels. There’s no one quite like him in America – but I’d rank him with Jackson Browne, Townes Van Zandt and Rodney Crowell in the singer-songwriter pantheon.” – John Lomax III (country music journalist and former manager of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle & others)
Maverick and venerable song man Neil Murray spent much of 2021 dodging Covid bullets by touring in the north and west of the country but is set to return to South Australia in late August. Neil is a founding member of the pioneering Warumpi Band, which penetrated mainstream Australia with the iconic anthems “My Island Home” and “Blackfella Whitefella”. He is now a respected singer/songwriter; “Good Light in Broome”, “Whispering Casuarina” and “Lights Of Hay” are just some of the superb songs from the string of remarkable albums he has released – the most recent being Blood & Longing, and Tjungu (all in one, joined together), a collaboration with fellow Warumpi founder Sammy Butcher. His latest single, “Keep Rolling On”, which was co-written by Yirrmal Marika and features Yirrmal, Emma Donovan and Matt Walker, was released early last year and celebrates the continuance of First Nations people and their culture in Australia and is an apt title for the resumption of his touring after being interrupted by the Covid pandemic.
Neil performs solo or with an accompanist, cherry-picking selections from his remarkable 4-decade catalogue of work.
Other accolades include the 2017 Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the year, the 1995 APRA song of the year for My Island Home. The latter plus Jailanguru Pakarnu ( Out from Jail– a 1983 co-write with Sammy Butcher in the Luritja language) have been selected into the National Film and Television Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia Series.
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