“I really like jazz, however my old flame is people music, so I picked the folkier stuff to sing … I learnt his style was very eclectic starting from Vivaldi to Dire Straits.”
Davie’s musical journey started as a faculty chorister, earlier than graduating to piano, violin and guitar, studying to play utilizing the Eva Cassidy Songbook.
She cites golden-voiced Cassidy, who died of most cancers at 43, as an early affect, not solely in the way in which she performs music, however why.
Davie is trying ahead to a busy January.Credit score: Jamila Toderas
In her closing 12 months of highschool a decade in the past, Davie’s people music-loving mom Kathy was identified with early onset Alzheimer’s. Two of her authentic songs, Sinking Feeling, and The Window are in regards to the ache of getting a mom who not recognises you.
“I’ve written a number of songs about it, and I’m very completely happy I can write and sing about it as a result of I don’t know the way else I’d cope with the grief,” she says.
“Lots of people won’t have a mum with early onset Alzheimer’s, however there’s lots who’ve been touched by Alzheimer’s or dementia, they usually often inform me after my exhibits my songs have touched them and introduced them to tears. For me with the ability to carry out is cathartic.”
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Subsequent month guarantees to be busy for the singer-songwriter whose ethereal voice has been in comparison with that of her hero Cassidy: Cigany Weaver will launch their second album, Nonetheless Water, on January 11, she seems in Bellingen’s Megan Corridor on January 14 and at Sydney’s Camelot Lounge on January 19.
For her Sydney Competition efficiency on January 6, the opener for the studio periods, she has chosen Joni Mitchell’s Each Sides Now, Leonard Cohen’s Chook on a Wire and Suzanne, a variety from James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones and Eva Cassidy’s model of Songbird, which was on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album, which Whiteley owned.
“These are all songs which have been a part of my upbringing, so I hope the viewers leaves feeling they heard among the classics, interpreted in a brand new method,” Davie says.
The 2024 Sydney Competition takes place January 6–28.