New music launched in old church

SINGER-songwriters Claire Anne Taylor and Áine Tyrrell are holding a double album launch to celebrate their new releases.

They are performing All the Words and Returnto the Sea respectively at Scrub Hill 1869, a converted blue stone church event space in Newlyn.

Tasmanian based Taylor and Byron Bay resident Tyrrell Taylor connected musically at a festival in Bellingen NSW and discovered a mutual love of each other’s work.

Taylor said it is a co-incidence that both albums were released within a month of each other.

She had performed at Scrub Hill 1869 previously and suggested it was a great place for them to launch together.

“There is something about it that is quite captivating with a beautiful sound to it,” Taylor said. “It must be the reverberance of the stone in the walls.”

The space suits the type of music that both musicians create.

Tyrell is a poignant story teller with a really powerful stage presence while Taylor described her music as soulful folk.

Taylor’s inspiration comes from themes of family and landscape and the big life moments such as grief and losing someone.

“I explore the big questions in life quite a bit in my song writing,” she said.

Story is at the forefront for Tyrrell whose compositions are influenced deeply by her Irish roots.

“My music is a call to arms, a siren’s wisdoms and warnings, and most importantly the soundtrack of a woman who walks her own beat,” she said.

The double album launch is at Scrub Hill 1869 1713 Daylesford Ballarat Road, Newlyn on Sunday, 5 May from 3pm to 6pm.

Tickets are $20 adults, kids are free, and are available online at ainetyrrell.com.