What s a festival without mud? Noonan said. It s just incredibly exciting, it feels like the right time to be emerging after the pandemic hit us a bit over a year ago. The two-day all-ages music festival features major talents like Kate Miller-Heidke, Busby Marou, Miiesha, Asha Jefferies, Sahara Beck and Coast artists including Andrea Kirwin and the Yama-Nui Social Club, The Dreggs and Band of Frequencies. Busby Marou are set to hit the stage at Eumundi Showgrounds this weekend. Noonan managed to keep working, despite pandemic restrictions, by doing a southeast Queensland regional tour late last year. I ve done three lots of quarantine in order to work - I did The Masked Singer in Melbourne in the peak of COVID and had to do 14 days quarantine - it s pretty intense, she said.
Playing alongside them will be bassist Steele Chabau. Ready to rock Eumundi are The Feral Cats of Tokyo. The family ties won t end there - Noonan s husband Zac Hurren, who is a mentor of The Feral Cats, also plays in her long-lived folk-jazz trio Elixir. Waiting in the wings is Noonan s 14-year-old son Jonah, who Noonan said was the most beautiful singer . He has already performed in the opening ceremony soundtrack of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, of which Noonan was the musical director. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a retired journalist and also a musician, singer and mum was an opera singer, she said.
Playing alongside them will be bassist Steele Chabau. Ready to rock Eumundi are The Feral Cats of Tokyo. The family ties won t end there - Noonan s husband Zac Hurren, who is a mentor of The Feral Cats, also plays in her long-lived folk-jazz trio Elixir. Waiting in the wings is Noonan s 14-year-old son Jonah, who Noonan said was the most beautiful singer . He has already performed in the opening ceremony soundtrack of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, of which Noonan was the musical director. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a retired journalist and also a musician, singer and mum was an opera singer, she said.
Noonan Rising
Katie Noonan is presenting a very special one woman show at the
Brunswick Picture House on
Saturday, presenting songs from her acclaimed albums in an intimate stripped-back setting.
The show comes on the back of her performance at the State Theatre and was organised when she had to quarantine for two weeks in Northern NSW before heading back to her home state of Queensland. So now that the border’s open she’s decided to push forward with the show. ‘I’ve never cancelled a show in my life,’ she laughs.
This is a woman who understands the hustle of the biz. ‘For that 90 minutes on stage there is probably about 900 minutes of hustle to get there.’ During the lockdown she put in for 47 arts grants and received 22.