Fanny Lumsden Unveils New Single ‘MILLIONAIRE’
Fanny Lumsden signals her highly anticipated return today with brand new music, via the vibrant, jangly indie guitar-pop of single, Millionaire. Download / stream HERE.
Millionaire is the first taste of what’s to come from Lumsden in 2023 as she gears up for the release of her fourth studio album.
Fanny explains the genesis of Millionaire, saying “Like a lot of firsts, getting your first car is a season of freedom that you can never quite live again. Mine came in the form of a Daewoo Ciello, bought off the side of the road in Griffith, NSW at age 18. I have never really wanted fancy things and to me the ultimate day is heading to the river, music blaring in the car, with family and friends. I am aware it takes a certain level of luck and privilege to feel that way, and also that a million dollars is not even the median price for a modest house anymore … but it is the sentiment that counts. Give me a drive through the redgum forest and arvo at the river, lots of people, love and chaos around my kitchen table and I’m a millionaire.”
Millionaire follows on from Lumsden’s ARIA Top 10, Golden Guitar and ARIA Award-winning 2020 album Fallow, and sees the acclaimed singer songwriter incorporate guitar-based indie-pop into her trademark world of gorgeously crafted, emotionally rich acoustic songwriting.
“I just let it go there,” she smiles. “It doesn’t need anything else, it can just be this fun song.”
Lumsden will premiere the video for Millionaire this Sunday night March 5, from 8pm AEDT via YouTube – tune in HERE.
Next up for Fanny is a series of acoustic shows (see here for dates), and the latest instalment of her Country Halls Tour.With its humble beginnings in 3 halls in the Riverina in 2012, it is now celebrating its 10-year milestone! Over that time Fanny and her small (mostly family) team have put on full band, full productions of original live music in more than 200 halls all over Australia, raising funds for communities, and raising the roof off halls with their all-in-community-night-out.
To celebrate they are heading out in a two-part tour across Australia. Fanny has today announced Part 1 of the tour which will be heading out to halls throughout regional NSW including Tallimba which was where it all began with the very first hall the Country Halls Tour show every played – and also where Fanny grew up in the northern Riverina. Part 2 will be announced later this year and is set to visit halls all over the country
Fanny explains, “I can’t believe that those three halls in 2012 has turned into 10 years and over 200 halls all over the country. To every community that has showed up and showed off their hall, thank you, to every person cooking the BBQ, run the bar, put out chairs, to every km my team has driven with me, to every person who has told me stories of their halls – thank you! As an application-based tour, where the halls apply to host I am blown away every year by the sheer number of halls that apply to host original live music. So this is to all those regional communities out there supporting the arts whilst feeding the nation… that is the serious side of it, but mostly to everyone from babies to grandparents just turning up for a fun night out!” www.countryhallstour.com
Country Halls Tour 2023 – 10 year Anniversary Tour – Part 1:
April 22 Kangaroo Valley Community Hall, NSW
April 28 Yenda Memorial Hall, NSW
April 29 Tallimba Public Hall, NSW
May 5 Piallaway Hall, NSW
May 6 Garah Hall, NSW
May 7 Nullamanna Public Hall, NSW
May 12 Broadwater Rileys Hill Community Hall
May 13 Coutt’s Crossing Coronation Hall
FANNY LUMSDEN BIO
ARIA Award, 8x Golden Guitar, AIR Award winning Australian artist Fanny Lumsden released her third studio album, Fallow, on Cooking Vinyl Australia/Red Dirt Road Records, in 2020. It debuted at #10 on the all-genre ARIA charts, going to #1 on the Country ARIA charts for two consecutive weeks, took out Best Country Album at the 2020 ARIA Awards, and swept the field taking home five CMAA Golden Guitar Awards including Album of the year, Female artist of the year, Single of the year (Fierce), Video clip of the year and Alt Country Album of the year. Fallow was shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Music Prize top 9 albums of 2020 with her Variations album also making the longlist. Fallow also took out the Country Album of the Year at the AIR awards, also scoring an Album of the year nomination, and finished it off with an APRA award nomination for one of the top 5 most played country songs for 2021 for Dig.
Fanny has appeared on Rockwiz, Play School Showtime, ABC’s The Set with You Am I, and was one of 12 Aussies in Global Music Match. She is a Support Act Advocate, a Volunteer firefighter, she wrote and produced a documentary telling the story of Fallow through the summer of bushfires – and managed to pull off a sold-out theatre tour across Australia in the wake of the first wave of the pandemic.Fanny was also named 2021 Albury Local Woman of the Year for the Hume Shire for her work with regional communities. Was the Country Ambassador for Bigsound Country in 2022 and is a leader within the CMAA community.
Along with her husband Dan Stanley Freeman she runs her own Record Label and Production company – Red Dirt Road and hugely successful touring brand – The Country Halls Tour which has sold out over 200+ halls all over Australia.
An artist who is dedicated to playing live and connecting with audiences, Fanny has toured with the likes of Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers and more headlined multiple sold-out theatre tours, played Americana Fest in Nashville, and successfully undertaken 8 Country Halls tours.
Fanny is fierce and a force and is changing up how things are done.
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