Splendid performer: Angie Hart joins the line-up at Apollo Bay Music Festival this weekend.
ERIN PEARSON
Australian singer Angie Hart will play on the Surf Coast this weekend after an illustrious journey through music.
Hart who grew up in a Christian commune, fronted bands Frente! and Splendid, and climbed the Triple J radio’s Hottest 100. She also spent eight years living in the United States, posed near-nude for a music magazine and starred on Seven Networks Home and Away.
Now touring her solo album, Eat My Shadow, Hart will feature at Apollo Bay Music Festival with her band and special guest Georgia Fields.
Hart, now based in Melbourne, said she was looking forward to performing hits from her alternative rock past as well as songs featuring in her blossoming solo career.
“I really just can’t wait to perform a real mix at Apollo Bay,” she told the Independent.
“Music festivals allow for that. I’m quite interactive as it is but I find festivals are even more so – it’s you and the audiences together, so whatever the weather is doing and however the people are dancing will determine my songs.
“There’s something about the camaraderie at a music festival that you don’t get by yourself.”
With a reputation for winsome lyrics and a delicate vocal style, Hart rose to fame with Melbourne-based Frente!. The band, which formed in 1991, eventually sold more than one million records worldwide
After Frente! she formed duo Splendid and later teamed up with Dean Manning as Holidays on Ice.
She recently embarked as a solo act, releasing album Grounded Bird in late 2007.
Eat My Shadow followed in October 2009 after Hart recorded with award-winning producer Shane Nicholson, the partner of Australian country music star Kasey Chambers.
Organisers said the Apollo Bay timetable was jam-packed with projects including a battle for the title of Acoustic Duo Heavyweight Champions of Australasia and a forum on social justice.
International acts would feature Grammy Award winners Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, fellow Americans Charles Neville and Rosie Flores, Canada’s The Good Lovelies and the UK’s Martha Tilston.
The Australian line-up will showcase Aria Award winner Washington as well as Zeptepi, The Wildes, Sarah Carroll and Chris Wilson and Dog Trumpet.
Hart will perform on both the ABC Radio and Mechanics Institute stages at the festival.
