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Album
HEY DAWN
released August 4

Pre-order HERE

+ HEY DAWN
album tour
kicks off July 28

– Four new dates
added for Tasmania

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As the sun sets on a massively successful live set at Glastonbury and sold-out dates across the UK, Fanny Lumsden shares another snapshot of her fourth studio album HEY DAWN (Cooking Vinyl Australia), via the video for new single Ugly Flowers. It was directed by Fanny and Dan, filmed and edited by Dan Stanley Freeman featuring home videos and slides generously supplied by the Hardie/Lumsden family. WATCH HERE.

Fanny explains, “Ugly Flowers is a call to the stories we were told and those we told ourselves and how they change and warp over time. We were built on these memories, regardless of how unglamourous they seemed in the moment. You get to a point where you almost do anything just to drop back to those moments of the endless long days soaked in future and in freedom. Freedom to have a strong opinion about a flower based on its association with your at-the-time assumed boring, rural (dare I say actual small town) life. Then you get a little older and realise those are the very same ugly flowers that now when you smell, alongside wet hot cement in the summer, set you free. If just for a nostalgic moment. Families grow, change, people die, people are born, but the ugly flowers live on, thriving against a wall in the baking western NSW sun, passing down our secrets to the next generation.”

“In real time it is directly about my family and how as we get older our families or the families we build for ourselves are really all that matter.”

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Lumsden has just played a triumphant UK debut with her band the Prawn Stars at Glastonbury Festival, headlined three shows in Ireland, and concluded with a full house at Green Note in Camden, London.

On playing Glastonbury’s Field of Avalon Stage, Lumsden said of the festival and performance: “I cannot believe that our first ever gig in the UK was to a full Avalon Stage at Glastonbury. The audience was so amazing and sang along and did all the designated dance moves and brought a lot of joy – it was an incredible experience. It was exciting to share our songs and stories all the way from Australia, with a beautiful audience!”

Returning to local shores, the release of Hey Dawn will be accompanied by a national tour from Fanny with The Prawn Stars, kicking off on July 28 in Bendigo and working along the East Coast. Today Fanny has revealed 4 new tour dates for Tasmania, running from September 14-17, in Lilydale, Gowrie Park, Queenstown and Franklin. All details are below and at www.fannylumsden.net.

Ahead of album release, Fanny has devised the most amazing opportunity for fans – the Golden Fanny Ticket!  Hidden inside one Hey Dawn CD and one Hey Dawn vinyl is the ticket that will give the lucky winners a lifetime pass to any and all Fanny Lumsden headline shows – imagine never having to pay for a Fanny Lumsden gig again!  To be in the running, fans just order Hey Dawn on vinyl or CD from Fanny’s website, to be the lucky recipient! See here for more.

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HEY DAWN
Track Listing

Hey Dawn
Great Divide
You’ll Be Fine
Ugly Flowers
When I Die
Lucky
Soar
Millionaire
Enjoy The Ride
Stories

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Fanny will hit the road from the end of July to celebrate the release of Hey Dawn, playing with The Prawn Stars across Vic, ACT, NSW and QLD. Please see below for all information, new shows on sale this Friday.

HEY DAWN
Australian album tour

Tickets HERE

JULY 28 – BENDIGO, BENDIGO BANK THEATRE, VIC

JULY 29 – BALLARAT, MECHANICS INSTITUTE, VIC

JULY 30 – ANGLESEA, THE SOUND DOCTOR, VIC

AUGUST 4 – CANBERRA, STREET THEATRE, ACT

AUGUST 5 – WAGGA, WAGGA CIVIC THEATRE, NSW

AUGUST 6 – BENALLA, BENALLA TOWN HALL, VIC

AUGUST 9 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE, NSW

AUGUST 10 – POMONA, MAJESTIC THEATRE, QLD

AUGUST 11 – MARYBOROUGH, MARYBOROUGH SPORTS CLUB, QLD

AUGUST 12 – TOOWOOMBA, THE POWERHOUSE, QLD

AUGUST 13 – BRISBANE, THE TRIFFID, QLD

AUGUST 25 – MELBOURNE, MEMO MUSIC HALL, VIC

AUGUST 26 – MEENIYAN, MEENIYAN TOWN HALL, VIC

AUGUST 27 – BUNDALAGUAH, LIVE AT THE BUNDY, VIC

SEPTEMBER 1 – MILTON, MILTON THEATRE, NSW

SEPTEMBER 2 – SYDNEY, FACTORY THEATRE, NSW

SEPTEMBER 3 – NEWCASTLE, LIZOTTES, NSW

SEPTEMBER 14 – VALENTINOS SAFE CO, LILYDALE, TAS – NEW DATE

SEPTEMBER 15 – WILDER TASMANIA, GOWRIE PARK, TAS – NEW DATE

SEPTEMBER 16 – PARAGON THEATRE, QUEENSTOWN, TAS – NEW DATE

SEPTEMBER 17 – PALAIS THEATRE, FRANKLIN, TAS – NEW DATE

AU FESTIVAL DATES:

OCT 5 + 6

SAVANNAH IN THE ROUND – BOOK NOW

MAREEBA – FAR NORTH QLD

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About FANNY LUMSDEN

ARIA Award, 8x Golden Guitar, AIR Award winning Australian artist Fanny Lumsden released her third studio album, Fallow, on Cooking Vinyl Australia/Red Dirt Road Records, in 2020.  It debuted at #10 on the all-genre ARIA charts, going to #1 on the Country ARIA charts for two consecutive weeks, took out Best Country Album at the 2020 ARIA Awards, and swept the field taking home five CMAA Golden Guitar Awards including Album of the Year, Female artist of the year, Single of the year (Fierce), Video clip of the year and Alt Country Album of the year. Fallow was shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Music Prize top 9 albums of 2020 with her Variations album also making the longlist. Fallow also took out the Country Album of the Year at the AIR Awards, also scoring an Album of the Year nomination, and finished it off with an APRA Award nomination for one of the top 5 most played country songs for 2021 for Dig.

Fanny has appeared on Rockwiz, Play School Showtime, ABC’s The Set with You Am I, and was one of 12 Aussies in Global Music Match. She is a Support Act Advocate, a Volunteer firefighter, she wrote and produced a documentary telling the story of Fallow through the summer of bushfires – and managed to pull off multiple sold-out theatre tours across Australia in the wake of the pandemic. Fanny was also named 2021 Albury Local Woman of the Year for the Hume Shire for her work with regional communities. Was the Country Ambassador for Bigsound Country in 2022 and is a leader within the CMAA community. 

Along with her husband Dan Stanley Freeman she runs her own Record Label and Production company – Red Dirt Road and hugely successful touring brand – The Country Halls Tour which has sold out over 200+ halls all over Australia.

An artist who is dedicated to playing live and connecting with audiences, Fanny has toured with the likes of Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers and more headlined multiple sold-out theatre tours, played Americana Fest in Nashville, and successfully undertaken 8 Country Halls tours.

Fanny is fierce and a force and is changing up how things are done!

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AMNPLIFY – ML