Rebecca has just been announced as a Finalist in the Toyota Star Maker Competition to be held in Tamworth on Sunday the 17th January 2010. Rebecca will be performing songs from her soon to be released album Real Love. She is heading off on a national album release tour in 2010 travelling in a caravan across the entire country.
"Pretty Big Mess" is the first single from this new record and it was recently shortlisted in the 2009 ASA Songwriting Awards. Rebecca was a finalist in the Melbourne Songwriter's Competition in November 2009. She is currently performing both solo and with multi-instrumentalist Damien Neil (guitar, fiddle, mandolin and banjo).
Rebecca (piano, guitar, vocal) was nominated for the Best Female Vocalist Award at the 2008 ABC Newcastle Music Awards. She recently performed at the Cobargo Folk Festival, The Falls Festival, Marion Bay Tasmania 08/09, the Newcastle Blues Festival, Manchester Lane Melbourne and the 2009 Illawarra Folk Festival, Bulli NSW. Rebecca is a self-managed, independent artist.
She is currently the Music Director and co-ordinator of an ongoing concert series that is raising funds for a Burmese Orphanage called Phaung Daw Oo. There are over 7000 children attending this school. Concerts are planned for Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane and Cairns in 2009. Please go to www.innervisions.com.au/rebecca-moore/burma-cyclone-orphans for more information. Artists involved in the project so far are Epicure, Pugsley Buzzard, Jez Mead, and The Yearlings.
Rebecca is currently working on her next album with Dave Sparks (The Lime Spiders, The Saints) at Pirate Studios, Tathra NSW. The album is being released on a nation wide tour in 2010.
Rebecca has supported some of Australia ’s best blues and roots artists such as Xavier Rudd, the John Butler Trio, Epicure, Pugsley Buzzard, Melanie Horsnell, Jez Mead, The Yearlings, Archie Roach and the Back Sliders (Rob Hirst of Midnight Oil). She has played shows with The Church, Margaret Urlich and Things of Stone and Wood.
In 2001 Rebecca won the APRA Professional Development Award in the Rock category. This award provided Rebecca with $10,000 which financed a UK tour and also her EP "Butterfly Catcher", engineered by Jen Anderson in Melbourne , featuring Grant Cummerford (Jeff Lang/Matt Walker/Xavier Rudd) on Bass.
Rebecca was a top five Finalist in the ABC Newcastle Music Awards Blues and Roots Award, 2004. The song "Desert" featured on Rebecca's debut album "The Uluru Concept", which featured Gavin Shoesmith and Jason McGann of the original John Butler Trio. Her songs "Tall Ships", "ICBM" and "Oh Father" placed in the semi-finals of the 2005 ABC Newcastle Music Awards.
Past performances include the Peats Ridge Festival 2007; the Cygnet Folk Festival Tasmania; Earthstomp Yallingup WA; The Kashmir Klub London; 12 Bar London; Ruby Sessions Dublin Ireland; The Corner Hotel Melbourne; The Vanguard, The Annandale Hotel and The Basement, Sydney; Artsrage Perth and Mojo's, Western Australia.
In 2005/6 Rebecca was Music Director and co-ordinator of the Acoustic Music Series at the Star of the Sea Theatre in Manly. The 2006 programme featured some of Australia ’s best Acoustic Roots music talent including Jeff Lang, Melanie Horsnell, Rebecca Moore, Trapazoid, Nathan Kaye and Ashley Davies and Matt Walker.
Rebecca has featured on many radio shows including Triple J's Morning Show, Creatures of the Spotlight, and Roots n' all, as well as countless independent stations both in Australia and overseas.
She is a gifted songwriter with ability to transport audiences on an emotional and metaphorical journey. She has been compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell; however she maintains a distinct individuality and an awesome creative presence.
"...the best is yet to come..." (Don Bannister. Trad and Now Magazine Australia, Oct 2009)
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