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Kimberley Frontier

Official video clip of Graeme Connors performing ‘Kimberley Frontier’ from his new album ‘from the backcountry’.

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6 days ago

Graeme Connors

As 2023 draws to a close… let us be part of your musical Christmas.

If you need a CD, a DVD, or a book to put under the Christmas Tree - we’ve got you covered.

Or looking forward, how about tickets to live performances in 2024 celebrating Graeme’s 50 years in the music industry.

Friday 26th Jan ➡ evtam.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/110754
Sunday 21st Jan ➡ evtam.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/110752

Whatever the case… may your Christmas be meaningful... and the year ahead be your best yet.

The Panama Music Company…🎄
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As 2023 draws to a close… let us be part of your musical Christmas. 

If you need a CD, a DVD, or a book to put under the Christmas Tree - we’ve got you covered.

Or looking forward, how about tickets to live performances in 2024 celebrating Graeme’s 50 years in the music industry.

Friday 26th Jan ➡ https://evtam.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/110754
Sunday 21st Jan ➡ https://evtam.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/110752

Whatever the case…  may your Christmas be meaningful... and the year ahead be your best yet.

The Panama Music Company…🎄

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Any chance of a concert in Perth?

Just love your music, Wishing you and your family all the best for Christmas 🎄 ❤️

Thank you Graeme for your music you have a fantastic Christmas all the best

Sadly i had them all, except the new book 'My Lyrical Life' until the Northern Rivers floods came by. The book is certainly on my wish list!

Merry Christmas to you, Graeme as well, also is there any chance of an e-book or an audiobook of your lyrical life printed book at all? Okay bye 

North. Hands down 🫶🏼🙌🏼

Is Graeme heading north at all Cairns region

'ALL" must have gifts!

Return Album

Thanks Graeme for my signed song books, 1991 was a while ago, you’ve got a great memory. Catherine Long thanks for the bday pressie, I was a bit surprised I think.

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3 weeks ago

Graeme Connors

Am I the only one who feels that Christmas is arriving early this year? Since completing the ‘My Lyrical Life' mini-tours, I feel like I'm roaring towards December and the celebration of my 50 years in the music business.

To mark that milestone I have 2 shows during the Tamworth Music Festival… Sunday January 21st: my Songwriter Concert at the Capitol Theatre (where in an intimate setting I focus on the stories behind the songs) and Friday January 26th: my Performer Concert at Tamworth Town Hall (with my big band, big songs, and big surprises).

From a career encompassing 20 albums and 200 and something songs it wasn’t too difficult creating 2 separate and different repertoires - so your call - either, neither or both - hopefully both 😂!
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Am I the only one who feels that Christmas is arriving early this year? Since completing the ‘My Lyrical Life mini-tours, I feel like Im roaring towards December and the celebration of my 50 years in the music business.

To mark that milestone I have 2 shows during the Tamworth Music Festival… Sunday January 21st: my Songwriter Concert at the Capitol Theatre (where in an intimate setting I focus on the stories behind the songs) and Friday January 26th: my Performer Concert at Tamworth Town Hall (with my big band, big songs, and big surprises).

From a career encompassing 20 albums and 200 and something songs it wasn’t too difficult creating 2 separate and different repertoires - so your call - either, neither or both - hopefully both 😂!

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When are you coming back to Bundaberg. Thoroughly enjoyed your shows.

Sounds wonderful. How about mackay!!!

You should come to Tasmania 👍

Your website doesn’t allow overseas residents to purchase your book as postage is for Australia only. Hope it’s on Amazon oneday?

I find Christmas rather sad these days. Both parents and one brother passed, grown children living away and overseas, spending quiet Christmas days with friends and remaining family. But I have the wonderful memories that an album or two or three of yours would be played at. Board games, debates, competitions, with much laughter, tables groaning from the weight of the food, singalongs, especially to NORTH, because everyone knew the words to every song. Will always remember those days. Your music takes me there...🙏

Are you coming Rocky way any time soon Graeme?

Xmas stuff was out even before Halloween! I’m expecting hot cross buns to be in the shops soon! 😀

Just Love your Music,keep it coming.Have a very merry Christmas,Graeme 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎶🎶🎶

Just amazing,love your music so much

Albury show was amazing 👏

Glad I've been a part of this Love ya Grum

Won’t get there. But .. New Year’s Eve ritual is to play certain inspiring music. Your CD The Here and Now leads the retinue. Happy Christmas and every success with the 50 year celebrations.

Love to see you back in Albany W.A.💜

You're still my favourite Australian country singer

It's things special to me, such as this, that hit me hard knowing that I've had to give up the Tamworth festival. Each year there are those few things that make me wish it was when I was in my prime, and a part of the BAL Marketing photographic team. 😥😥

Hope all goes well and will see you in Launceston soon and have a great Christmas to you and your family

Great to see you live

We thoroughly enjoyed the concert in Murwillumbah ❤️

I can only dream of being there . So so sad to have not been able to see you in Wollongong .

Love your concerts.

It will be 25 years Jan 2024 since i met my husband outside the Tamworth West Leagues club in a storm! We might just get back in January to celebrate! Agree, people are bringing Christmas forward . We had our CHURCH family group Christmas dinner last Saturday night! Anyone might believe church folk might know when Christmas is! Too early for this little old duck .

Well I’ll be at both - goes without saying really! 😜

We are hoping to catch one of your shows in Tamworth.❤️

Saw Albury show as good as ever

Mum and I were just discussing if we would do two or one.

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2 months ago

Graeme Connors

Albury we're on our way! See you Sunday! Tickets available at: commercialclubalbury.com.au/event/graeme-connors-my-lyrical-life/ ... See MoreSee Less

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Mel Beer we've just got home from the Canberra show, it was fantastic, you're going to love it. GC and a 3 piece band. 👍

Hey Trish Bowen you should go see him ,its a great show ,great songwriter and singer

Book ordered. Thanks

Bish (Michael bishop) here from that old band "strangeloves",with thomo, Bruce etc.. will try and catch-up with you sunday.

Would like to buy Graeme Connors Book – My Lyrical Life, but cannot update shipping details on the store for uk?

Absolutely fabulous show.

Graeme Connors we’re u friends with Adrian O’Rouke?

👍

Good morning Graeme. I'm not sure about how many friend requests you send out, and if mine is indeed a genuine request, but I have received one today and before I hit accept and indeed if it's dinkum then that's what I want to do, can you advise as to whether this is you or some scammer trying to use your great name for harm rather than good?

For Graeme He's a singer he's a dreamer, he's a writer of song. www.reverbnation.com/cjturner2/song/33070036-im-dreamer-singer-writer-song

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2 months ago

Graeme Connors

Wagga Wagga we're on our way! See you Saturday! Tickets available at: wagga.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/110999 ... See MoreSee Less

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Great concert in Wagga, well worth the wait👍

Myself and "Beth" were at your recent concert in Port Macquarie... most amazing night where I felt I was watching an old friend on stage singing some songs he wrote... can't wait to see you again...

Any Concert Date's for Queensland?

Love your music 🎶

Nettie Adams

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2 months ago

Graeme Connors

Canberra we're on our way! See you Friday. Tickets available at: au.patronbase.com/_StreetTheatre/Sections/Choose?prod_id=GCLL&perf_id=1 ... See MoreSee Less

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so sorry I can not make it tomorrow night, I hope you have a fantastic concert, and once again many thanks for your amazing song "The Love I leave behind" as per my previous email to you regarding my late husband who passed from Cystic Fibrosis

Just saw the show in Albury! Still as good as 25 years ago at our first!

Awesome singer, awesome voice💞

See you tonight

Awesome, can't wait. Haven't seen you live in a looooong time. Hoping you sing "Love Works" as this was our wedding song.

Was at the Canberra concert to me this was the BEST one yet. It also was a great time to catch up, with you and Lynne. 💕

Excellent concert !!

Looking forward to it.

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BIO

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After more than 40 years in the Australian music industry, 19 albums, walls and mantelpieces full of awards, you’d be forgiven for asking Country Music singer/songwriter Graeme Connors, “Why? Why continue with song writing?”.

Albeit blunt, that question is met with laughter and humility… “I know it sounds ridiculous, but the truth is, I’m still searching for the perfect song.”

The perfect song, by Connors’ definition, has the perfect combination of lyric and melody. It’s a song that has amazing impact. It connects with people- it has a unifying power for a whole crowd.

Many would argue that his ‘perfect song’ hit the airways 30 years ago in 1988 with the release of ‘A Little Further North Each Year’ from his breakthrough album North. North was a huge success and went on to sell over 140,000 units in Australia. A success that came 12 years after the release of his debut album.

In 1974, at the age of 18, Connors opened for American singer/songwriter, Kris Kristofferson during his Australian tour. Kris was so impressed with young Connors, that he took him into the recording studio to produce his 1976 debut album And When Morning Comes.

As a songwriter, Graeme Connors has written an extensive and impressive catalogue of songs for other artists including John Denver, Jon English and Slim Dusty. He became a favoured songwriter of the late Slim Dusty, who recorded 12 of his songs including the 1989 Song of the Year, ‘We’ve Done Us Proud’, winning Connors the first of 14 Golden Guitars. Connors enjoyed a long musical friendship with the Country Music great. When he passed away in 2003 Connors was invited by his Slims wife Joy to sing ‘Amazing Grace’ at his state funeral.

Unlike many modern-day songwriters, Connors has that rare ability to simplify complex ideas, reflect on serious issues with a wry smile, and combine philosophy and humour in a way that regularly produces an approving ‘yep, that’s me’ nod from the listener. The ‘yep, that’s me’ effect is part gift, part the result of a lifetime honing his craft as a wordsmith (64 years and counting) and the rest, a genuine understanding of his subject matter.

In celebration of his 60th birthday in 2016, Connors released his career retrospective album, 60 Summers: Ultimate Collection. 60 Summers is a mixture of songs from the very beginning of his career through landmark albums such as The Return, The Road Less Travelled, This Is Life, The Moment and Still Walking. The album debuted at #1 on the ARIA Country Album Chart and the lead single, also titled ‘60 Summers’, spent three weeks at #1 on The Music Network Official Country Airplay chart.

Following the success of 60 Summers, Connors was inducted into the prestigious Roll of Renown (Australia’s Country Music Hall of Fame) in 2017 for his contribution to Australian Country Music. His name immortalised in stone in Tamworth, the home of Australian Country Music.

Successes aside, Connors believes in the saying, “you’re only as good as your last show”. And it’s that mentality that has kept him driven and relevant in an everchanging and competitive industry. He treats each new album in isolation – a new opportunity to better himself in both song writing and producing.

Graeme’s most recent album, from the backcountry, produced with multi award-winning Producer Matt Fell was released in 2018 and combines Graeme’s signature Country sound with elements of rock, blues and roots.
And, in that typical unassuming Connors way, he smiles and hints that ‘the perfect song’ could very well be ‘from the backcountry’.

BACKGROUND

Albums
And When Morning Comes (1976)
North (1988)
South Of These Days (1989)
Tropicali (1991)
The Return (1993)
Homeland (1993)
The Here and Now (1995)
The Road Less Travelled (1996)
One Of The Family (1997)
A Delicate Balance (1999)
And When Morning Comes (Deluxe Reissue) (1999)
The Best … ’til Now (2000)
This Is Life (2002)
The Moment (2004)
It’s All Good…More Of The Best (2006)
The Last Supperteers (2007)
Still Walking (2010)
At The Speed Of Life (2011)
Kindred Spirit (2013)
North- 25 Years On (2014)
60 Summers: The Ultimate Collection (2016)
from the backcountry (2018)

Gold Albums
North
The Road Less Travelled The Best … ’til Now

Platinum Album
North
Possibility
Major Awards
1975 American Song Festival Award
1976 American Song Festival Award
1986 APRA Award “I’m Married to My Bulldog Mack”
1989 Song of the Year Golden Guitar “We’ve Done Us Proud” (recorded by Slim Dusty) 1990 APRA Award “A Little Further North”
1992 TSA Song-maker Award
1995 Song of the Year Golden Guitar “Songs from the Homeland”
1995 Album of the Year Golden Guitar “Homeland”
1995 Male Vocalist of the Year Golden Guitar
1995 TSA Media Song of the Year “Songs from the Homeland”
MO Award, Male Country Performer of the Year
1996 Song of the Year Golden Guitar “The Great Australian Dream”
1996 Vocal Collaboration of the Year Golden Guitar “Slowly But Surely”
1996 Bush Ballad Heritage Song Golden Guitar “The Ringer and the Princess”
1996 Video Track of the Year Golden Guitar “The Great Australian Dream”
1996 TSA Media Song of the Year “The Great Australian Dream”
1997 Album of the Year Golden Guitar “The Road Less Travelled”
1997 Male Vocalist of the Year Golden Guitar
ARIA Award Best Country Album “The Road Less Travelled”
MO Award Male Country Performer of the Year
PPCA Award Most Played Australian Country Artist (Radio)
1998 PPCA Award Most Played Australian Country Artist (Radio)
2000 TSA Country Song of the Year “These Uncertain Times”
2000 Victorian Country Music Awards Song of the Year “These Uncertain Times”
1998 Wrote the Cowboys Theme song “The Cowboys are my Team”
2001 Song of the Year Golden Guitar “Good Things in Life” (recorded by Adam Brand) 2004 2001 Video Track of the Year Golden Guitar “The Simple Truth”
2005 Victorian Country Music Awards Song of the Year “Hard Decisions”
PLUS eight other TSA song-writing awards.
2009 Q150 Queensland Icon Award
2011 WARP Gold Medallion Award Qld Male Vocalist of the Year
2011 Golden Guitar for Male Artist of the Year
2011 Golden Guitar for Album of the Year “Still Walking”
2017 Inducted into the Roll of Renown (Australia’s Country Music Hall of Fame)

DVD’s
Up Close (2004)
Graeme Connors… So Far and a Little Further (2004)
Concert to Camera (2015)

Graeme Connors

Australia’s Finest Singer-Songwriter

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