MFF26: Fanny Lumsden
From growing up on a sheep farm in western NSW to a UK debut at Glastonbury Festival via hundreds of Country Halls throughout regional Australia; 2x ARIA and 9x Golden Guitar, 3x AIR award-winning artist Fanny Lumsden’s journey shows no sign of slowing. Having ‘established herself as one of the one of the genre’s most esteemed performers’ (The Australian) and with her new album HEY DAWN having just taken out the ARIA for Best Country Album, the CMAA Golden Guitar for Alt-Country Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year at the AIR Awards, Fanny is a force to be reckoned with. Hey Dawn Debuted at #1 on the Australian Album ARIA charts, being the 4th highest selling country album of 2023 and Fanny’s second album in a row to crack the ARIA global top ten.
Fanny is continuing to break the rules and confirm herself as ‘undoubtedly the brightest new star of the current era’ (Capital News). Since her “breakthrough” album Fallow (2020) which took out the ARIA, 5x CMAA Golden Guitars an AIR Country Album Awards and a TOP 9 spot in the AMP awards, Fanny has taken her contagiously joyful and brilliant live show overseas.
A packed Avalon Stage at Glastonbury kicked off three successful tours to the UK including a sold out Country Halls Tour run in Scotland. Fanny wrapped up her Hey Dawn tour with sold out shows through NZ, Ireland, UK and theatres all across Australia, earning the coveted vote of crowd favourite at the Big Red Bash as well as Kate Rusby’s Underneath the Stars Festival in Yorkshire and all this momentum has landed a spot on the line up for the final Bluesfest in 2025.
In addition to her music career, Fanny has appeared on numerous television shows, including Spicks and Specks, Rockwiz, Play School Showtime, and ABC’s The Set. She is also a Support Act Advocate, a Volunteer firefighter, and a documentary filmmaker. Fanny was named the 2021 Hume shire Local Woman of the Year, runs her own Record Label and Production company, Red Dirt Road, with her husband Dan Stanley Freeman. They also run a successful touring brand, The Country Halls Tour, which has sold out over 300+ halls throughout Australia, the UK and New Zealand.
Fanny operates firmly in her own lane and this past year truly ‘confirms Fanny as a distinctive storyteller, and an indelible personality who can win over fans in or outside of country music’. (Doug Wallan, The Australian).
Curfew: 10.00pm
Stage: The Venue
Audience: Standing Venue When
01st January 1970 at 00:00
