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In here you'll find a few songs from my latest albums, and some pics from recent performances.
Most importantly, you'll find a Contact Page from which you can send me messages and any show booking
enquiries.
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To hear the full version of a selction of Maryanne's songs,
ABOUT
According to my mother I
have been able to sing and remember the words to songs since I learned to talk.
Most of my family are musical, one of my brothers was a bass player in a band for a few years but the others mainly
kept their talents for family occasions where we would all sing together. I was the only one who pursued it further
but even then I waited until I was 27 before deciding to perform professionally.
After raising a family of 4 children, I knew that if I didn't do something about it then, I never would. So I
enlisted the help of a chap by the name of Ken Arnold to help me. He asked me to join a cabaret show and thus
launched my musical career.
During the next year I gathered a collection of backing tapes and became a solo artist, using those tapes.
I then worked the next 4 years solo before being asked to fill in for a band in Pt Lincoln one night as they had
lost their singer for the evening (none other than our very own Dave Prior)!
That gave me the taste for working in a band!
A year later, after moving to Gladstone, I was asked to audition to be a backing singer in one of the bands there.
After the audition it was decided that they had a new singer and that was me!
After about 6 months of combining country and contemporary we decided to focus on country and changed the name of
the band, and Maryanne & Co was born!
Maryanne & Co played many quality venues with a wide range of artists. Some of our
more prominent gigs included playing for The South Australian Tourism Awards, The Olympic Torch Ceremony and The
Year of the Outback Cattle Drive. Maryanne & Co were also a support act for Lee Kernaghan, Gina Jefferies, Craig
Giles, Johnny Mac and Slim Dusty (at one of his last major concerts) as well as working with many other prominent
artists around the country.
Maryanne & Co had a standing gig at the Tamworth Country Music Festival for 10 years and played for the entire 10
days of the Festival.
Maryanne & Co's debut album "Table for Two" was released in January 06 and proved to be very popular, but
sadly after 16 years the band was put to rest.
Although I no longer have the band, I haven't lost my love of singing and have
continued writing and performing as a solo artist.
I've been back to the recording studio, releasing Country Blood - full of songs I love and songs I have written,
and Maryanne Sings The Carpenters - a tribute to the fantastic Carpenters.
I am looking forward to my upcoming solo shows and have recently purchased all new sound equipment and digital
technology which gives greater performance and venue flexibility.
Music has brought a great deal of pleasure into my life and I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to share
this pleasure with so many others and to have worked with some very talented people in the process.
ALBUMS
MARYANNE
SINGS THE CARPENTERS
Produced by
Anthony Stewart at Red Brick Music, released in 2015.
A selection of some of the
Carpenters biggest hits from the 70's and 80's.
COUNTRY BLOOD
Produced by Anthony Stewart including 9 original songs, was released in March
2010.
TABLE FOR TWO
Produced by Evan James at Broadcast Studio, released in 2005.
Dedicated to former band
member, mentor, rhythym guitarist, funny man and friend, Terry
Franks.
MUSIC
Click or
tap below to hear a selection of Maryanne's original music and cover songs.
What am I
gonna do - Country Blood
You that I
want - Country Blood
Country
blood - Country Blood
Sing -
Maryanne sings the Carpenters
Crazy -
Table for Two
REVIEWS
"The lady has a rich
and powerful throaty contralto and a budding talent for songwriting to match. Mostly she writes about love and
heartache from her own experience and thankfully her life has come full circle from misery to contentment. Waiting
In The Shadows, What Am I Gonna Do, Goodbye and the sweet and very pretty, Reckless are swept with sadness. Songs
from dark days, Broken Years and the foot-tappingly bluesy Walls Up, hold a refreshing breath of hope. New-found
love is celebrated in the buoyant You That I Want and the quietly contented Everything. The title track Country
Blood tells her own story about moving to the country as a ten-year-old. Add a couple of personal favourites such
as Leaving On Your Mind, Rockin’ With The Rhythm Of The Rain and Unchained Melody and the Country Blood album
is a well rounded identikit of Maryanne; singer, songwriter and survivor."
- Deborah Minter, Capital News
"Country Blood is an
album of true Australian vocal and song-writing craftsmanship"
- Terry Gordon OAM
"South Australian singer/songwriter MARYANNE -
By today's standards, she was a late starter, being 27 before performing professionally, but her career blossomed
from there.
Now a seasoned performer (both solo and in duets) Maryanne also headed up her own band MARYANNE & CO for many
years, playing modern country and '50s & '60s Rock & Roll shows."
- CRSPublicity
CONTACT
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