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| ARCHIVE : Capital News October 2002 Vol.27 No.10 |
COVER STORY – SARA STORER Australian stories in a song
By GREG BUSH
Sara Storer walked backstage, leaving Troy Cassar-Daley to finish the rest of his set during the Toyota Country Music Muster near Gympie. She seemed a little relieved to have completed her duet with Troy, despite the massive Muster audience warmly showing their appreciation. Sure, she had already sung her own bracket of songs earlier in the day. On the main stage at night however, performing before a 30,000 plus audience, was privately a daunting proposition.
"It’s all mental," Sara explained afterwards. "If it’s your own gig, yeah, you can stuff that up and you’ve got yourself to blame.
"But you don’t want to muck someone else up."
"It always takes me one song to settle in, so If had sung two songs I would have been all right," she laughed.
The song in question was Paul Kelly’s Night After Night, and it is also included on her second album, Beautiful Circle.
It’s been two years since Sara, now 28, burst on to the country music scene with her debut album, Chasing Buffalo. Many live appearances later, and she still retains that air of rural honesty that endeared to audiences, and fellow musicians alike.
"I’m terrible," she said of her occasional pre-concert jitters. "When I really work myself up, I’m off food. No breaky or lunch, which is unusual for me."
Sara’s in elite company in that department. Pre-show nervousness is a characteristic which she shares with a number of fellow Australian country music stars. For Sara, however, it’s been a whirlwind ride from relative obscurity in the Northern Territory outback to national television exposure.
A schoolteacher in outposts such as Kalkaringi, she entered and won an Adelaide River talent quest, which offered the opportunity to attend Tamworth’s Country Music College.
A meeting with award-winning producer Garth Porter, and the ball was rolling.
Sara went on to justify her early promise, earning recognition with a New Talent Golden Guitar win at the 2001 Country Music Awards of Australia with her own song, Buffalo Bill.
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