The border’s country sweetheart is coming to town

GROWING up on a farm in New South Wales, taught country singer Fanny Lumsden a thing or two about rural Australia.

Now, off the back of her ARIA Award win for the Best Country Album, she’s going back to her roots and continuing her regional Australian tour for her most recent album, fallow.

“I wrote the album in the Tooma Valley, in the Snowy Mountains, and then we recorded the album in a stone hut near where we live so the whole Valley was a huge part of that story,” she said.

“It was a very bumpy ride to get this record out.

“We had to reschedule the tour three times … but in November, we finally got to get on the road in New South Wales and share it live, in a COVID-safe way, but it was amazing and all but one spot sold out.”

From her album, Lumsden’s latest single Dig, produced by Matt Fell, is described by the musician to be just the fun and uplifting

piece needed right now.

“Dig is a fun song on the record, it’s about deciding in those points where you can either dig deeper or let go and how you figure that out,” she said.

“It’s ultimately about finding the joy where you can, and it always peps me up especially when the brass come in.”

While this year has presented Lumsden and her team with a variety of challenges, luckily, it’s also brought with it bounds of success and professional growth.

“Obviously, an ARIA nomination to start with was amazing, and winning it was absolutely mind blowing,” she said.

“There’s been a lot of hoops to jump through but totally worth it like everyone’s response at the live gigs so far is so amazing.

“We’re so passionate about keeping our regional touring… to let kids and emerging artists know that it’s possible and that it can be done their way, that’s really important.”

With tickets still available, catch Fanny’s rescheduled fallow album tour at Ballarat’s Mechanics Institute on Saturday, January 16 with Timothy James Bowen.