By Luke Voogt
Multi Golden Guitar winning songstress Sara Storer will visit Geelong this weekend after a lengthy absence from the touring circuit.
The Albury mother is hitting the road with her new album, Silos, as her four boys grow a little older.
“I’m at a stage where I can do a little bit – so it’s really good to be back,” she said.
The veteran singer-songwriter has become “more and more of a perfectionist” as her career has progressed.
“I think back to my early stuff and I was pretty much of the attitude of ‘she’ll be right’,” she said.
“Every album is my best work yet. The more I do it the better I become.”
Storer had a relatively quiet period between 2010 and 2015 while bringing four boys into the world.
“It’s been a bit hard to get away with the kids,” she said.
But she hasn’t been idle.
In 2014 she won three Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards Tamworth – bringing her tally to 19 – before the birth of her fourth son in early 2015.
Storer has lived all over Australia and her music is a colourful “personal dairy” of her travels.
“I’ve always been in love with the country and country people,” she said.
“There are so many beautiful characters to see out there and beautiful things to see in this country, which I can paint through music and song.”
In 2000 the then 26-year-old school teacher burst onto the Australian country music scene with a performance in her hometown of Katherine.
“I just went into a talent quest up there which pretty much landed me in the right place at the right time,” she said.
“It sort of took off from there and I resigned from teaching two weeks later. It was a bit of a dream of mine to be able to write songs and sing them.”
Storer played 21 shows with Australian icon Paul Kelly in 2008.
A more recent highlight has been performing with her brother, who has joined the band for her latest tour.
“He jumps off the tractor and gets to travel around with me and sing songs and do a little bit of what I get to do,” she said.
Storer said she couldn’t wait to get back down south.
“I’m really looking forward to getting back to Geelong. I get really good support there.”
