Occupation(s) Singer Name Leah Flanagan | Associated acts Black Arm Band Instruments Vocals Music group The Black Arm Band | |
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Albums Murundak (Live), Dirtsong (Live) Similar People Shellie Morris, Emma Donovan, Shane Howard, Bart Willoughby, Dan Sultan | ||
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Leah Flanagan is a singer-songwriter from Sydney, NSW. Leah has appeared on Australian TV shows Spicks & Specks and RockQuiz, has released 2 albums and toured extensively through Australia with her music and part of festival ensembles. Leah’s status as an Indigenous musician is one of pride and respect; she has helped make history with such recent essential albums as Archie Roach’s 25th anniversary reissue of Charcoal Lane and Buried Country 1.5, The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Her latest album Saudades was recorded at the studio of Midnight Oil's Jim Moginie and mixed by Paul McKercher (You Am I, Augie March)
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- Leah flanagan september song
- Leah flanagan rockwiz
- Biography
- BackgroundHistory
- Collaborations and Projects
- Television
- Discography
- References
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Biography
“Leah Flanagan is hands down one of this country’s finest songwriters.” - Post To Wire
For a decade Leah Flanagan has filled the Australian music scene with her beautifully complex contemporary folk, alternative soul sound. Her incredible journey as an artist is woven with star-studded collaborations with the likes of Sinead O’Connor, Meshell Ndegeocello and poet Sam Wagan Watson; touring productions Exiles and the Black Arm Band; Adelaide Festival’s 2011 production of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, performing in Clinton Walker’s Buried Country Roadshow; duetting with Paul Kelly and Ursula Yovich and recently recording a duet of Archie Roach’s “I’ve Lied” with Marlon Williams. She has featured on the ABC’s Spicks and Specks, and Rockquiz programs and is currently part of the heartfelt 1967: Music In The Key of Yes production alongside Dan Sultan, Adalita and Ursula Yovich.
Background/History
Leah Flanagan is a singer/songwriter from Darwin in the far north of Australia. Leah identifies as multi-racial due to her Aboriginal (Alyawarre), Italian (Venetian), Irish and Welsh heritage.
Leah graduated from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide with a degree in Classical Music and at the time was the first Aboriginal person in South Australia to graduate with a Bachelor of Music. From 2009 – 2011 Leah performed in the productions Murundak, Hidden Republic and Dirtsong with the touring company the Black Arm Band for many major festivals across Australia. This included a performance at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In 2010 she appeared at the Melbourne International Arts Festival's production "Seven Songs To Leave Behind" with John Cale, Rickie Lee Jones, Sinead O'Connor, Meshell Ndegeocello and Gurrumul with Black Arm Band members Ursula Yovich, Dan Sultan and Shellie Morris.
Deborah Conway invited Leah to be part of her Songtrails project for the 2009 and 2011 QLD Music Festivals where she collaborated with Australian artists Peter Farnan (Boom Crash Opera), Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens), Rebecca Barnard (Rebecca's Empire) to deliver a series of workshops and perform concerts across regional QLD.
Leah composed a show based on the poetry of award-winning Brisbane poet Sam Wagan-Watson entitled "Midnight Muses" for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. It premiered in 2011 and has since appeared at the 2013 Sydney Festival.
She was invited to perform as a featured soloist in the Australian first production of Leonard Bernstein's MASS for the 2012 Adelaide Festival.
In late 2015 Leah was invited by Archie Roach to record a duet of his song I've Lied with Marlon Williams for the 25th Anniversary release of Charcoal Lane. Rolling Stone praised the collaboration and gave the anniversary album 4 1/2 stars.
Leah is an Ambassador for Australasian Performing Right Association.
Collaborations and Projects
Television
Leah has appeared on the Australian TV music quiz shows Spicks and Specks and Rockwiz where she performed Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" as a duet with multiple ARIA Award winning composer David Bridie. She performed on the light comedy sports program, Marngrook Footy Show, performing a version of Stevie Wonder's "For Once in My Life".