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Overview
A grassroots singer songwriter from Lutruwita Tasmania, drawing on global folk traditions, Chris O plays banjo, bouzouki, uke and guitars. Appearances in the last year include: Top Half Folk Festival (NT), The Longley, Mona, The Royal Oak,(TAS),The Shack Narrabeen (NSW), The Delatite (VIC), Blackheath Folk Club (NSW). Chris also runs the monthly Wynyard Folk & Roots Club, a subgroup of The Folk Federation of Tasmania. Chris has represented NSW at the International Blues Challenge & National Women in Blues Showcases in Memphis, and her album, “Wailin’ & Raggin’ the Blues” was a finalist for Best Self-produced CD with the Blues Foundation of America in 2017. Her third album, “Twisted Roots & Twisted Highways” was a finalist for Blues & Roots Radio Album of the Year in 2018 (Canada).
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Reviews
"Chris has an evocative and honest vocal style that rejects the over-production of much of today's music. So too, her instrumental abilities. Having said that, Chris O is also about strong songwriting in traditional and contemporary contexts. I have enjoyed a number of her own compositions and collaborations." - JuzBlooz, 3WAY-FM
"With a delivery somewhere between Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie, Chris’s own songs stay firmly within the tradition that has so inspired her, with trains, work gangs, and cotton fields the back-drop to the usual tribulations of life, from hard lovin’ to just makin’ ends meet workin’ for the Man. You can hear the passion, the commitment, and that gives her own songs the necessary authenticity, a true master’s apprentice." - Michael Smith, Rhythms Magazine
