How thrilling to learn THE SLIPSTREAM is nominated for a Queensland Music Award in the Album of the Year category. The Queensland Music Awards (QMA’s) are an annual state wide awards celebrating recording artists in Queensland, with an award ceremony held in Brisbane on March 25th, 2025.
We recorded the ten original songs on the nominated album The Slipstream remotely from Airlie Beach to New York; producer Matt Anthony of Engine Sound creating the luscious soundscapes. The music videos for the title track The Slipstream and for the song Solace Calling were filmed in the Whitsundays at Cannonvale Beach, Funnel Bay, Proserpine and Cape Hillsborough, and lyric music videos filmed at Elysian Resort on Long Island in the Whitsundays, and at Conway Beach. I am passionate about promoting the region in my creative work. The cover photograph for the album was styled and filmed by Mackay creative Jason Chetcuti of Chetcuti Couture at Mandalay House thanks to Ray White Whitsunday and the owner of the property.
As co-founder of the Whitsundays Songwriter Festival, there is cause for double celebration, as this annual event has been nominated in the Festival of the Year category. In a coup for the region, the Airlie Beach Festival of Music is also nominated in this category.
I am an independent artist working to expand the arts and culture conversation in our regional area, so this is such a win to receive an acknowledgment of this kind. Thank you to the continued support of the Whitsunday Regional Council, the Regional Arts Development Fund and Jess Begun President of the Whitsundays Arts Festival, we are preparing to deliver the very successful Whitsundays Songwriter Festival for the 4th year on June 7th, 2025.
PLEASE VOTE: For the Queensland Music Awards, the People’s Choice award category for Album of the Year and Festival of the Year has opened voting to the public at the QMusic website https://www.qmusic.com.au/pca/vote