Karen Lynne

Feb 2004 - KAREN LYNNE MEDIA UPDATE & GIG GUIDE Hi all!,... Welcome to 2004, hope the new year has kicked off well for you all. While determined to have a more manageable year, mine is off to an annoyingly busy start with lots of news to tell you.
FEB 2004 - VIC COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS WIN - Good News as I've achieved Top honours for the second year in a row at the Victorian & National Country Music Awards. This years Award was in the "Bluegrass & Traditional Country" Section and was a really special award to win considering my long time love of Bluegrass and (particularly) traditional Country Music,.. a great way to start 2004! SECOND SINGLE MAKES TOP 10 - Just letting you know that the second single release from the Second Wind album "I'll Just Pretend" made it to a healthy Number 6 position on the major Australian Country Tracks Chart,.. Thanks again to all the Radio Presenters (all over the World!), who have given the single so much support,.. it's a great song,... Thank You!! NEW SINGLE - Keep a watch out for the first Australian single for 2004. This will happen in April or early May on NFS. The song is planned to be track 4 "Till you loved Me", and as it did so well on the overseas airplay chart we are hoping that it will do the same in Australia,.. please support it if you can!. Anyone wanting interviews in the light of this new single and in the wake of the recent Award win please contact me. UPDATE ON LATEST EUROPE & UK SINGLE - Thanks to all my overseas DJ friends, for supporting the latest overseas single "Till you loved Me"- it received some great comments and good airplay. Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances I was unable to receive information relating to the progress of this single at that particular time, so I was unable to follow it up properly. It was therefore left to do it's own will!,... amazingly I'm told it still reached Number 7 on the DJ voted European/UK Airplay chart showing the most played songs.,... thanks all!. WEB SITE UPDATED: - Good news as the web site is generally being updated on a regular basis. So if you have a minute, go have a peak, listen to song samples from all the albums and check out the news & pics! http://www.karenlynne.com GIG & OTHER NEWS - Thanks to everyone who went out of their way to catch up with me at Tamworth. I'm sorry I couldn't take the Bluegrass band with me this year, but sometimes it's just not financially viable. Regardless, there were still some lovely shows. The TSA Songwriters Concert was - as always, a fantastic show and thanks also to Arthur & Berice Blanch who asked me to guest on their wonderful concert. It was a real highlight for me - especially meeting Arthur and the Webb Brothers, who I heard a lot while I was growing up (thanks to my Dad's love of Country Music). Thanks also to Trevor Knight (also now on the Shoestring label) and his efforts in organising the Shoestring Showcases, they were really nice shows featuring many of the artists that are distributed by Shoestring. Special thanks go to Kym Warner and Carol Young - of the "Greencards" Bluegrass Band for giving myself and Marty (my Banjo playing husband) a great feature spot on their bluegrass show, and even though they now reside in Texas, USA most of the time, it was lovely to catch up with them in the flesh for the first time in three years. They have a great new album out which will do great things for them I'm sure. Thanks also for those gig tips that many of you have sent me,.. we will be coming down to Victoria in March, but only briefly, but still hope to pick up gigs at some of those venues (if not this time, later in the year on our next trip in July). Anyway,.. all the best for the new year,.... Lots of Love,.. Karen Lynne MEDIA RELEASE - Feb 2004 "SECOND WIND" ALBUM DELIVERS SECOND MAJOR AWARD FOR KAREN LYNNE Following 'hot on the heels' of her win in the Australian Independent Country Music Awards as Independent Female Vocalist of the Year, Australian Singer Karen Lynne has taken out the Top Award for "Bluegrass & Traditional Country Song of The Year" in the 2004 Victorian & National Country Music Awards. The winning track was a gorgeous rendition of '"The Outbacks Been Getting the Rain,' a song written by her duo partner, Singer/songwriter Pat Drummond during his stay at Nappermarie station on Coopers Creek. 'Second Wind', Karen's fourth independent release had been tipped to bring her great success over this last year and indeed it has. In addition to rave reviews and Top 10 Chart successes for the initial two singles in Australia and overseas, the Album has now received no less than 11 Final Award Nominations nationally and two Major Country Music Awards. The album, produced by Sydney producer Herm Kovak, is a return to a Country Music format with a variety of material, some of which edges into mainstream country. The winning song has also been featured recently on the "Send it Down Huey" Country Compilation, an album compiled and released with all proceeds going to aid the Australian National Drought Relief Appeal. Second Wind has expanded Karen's fanbase enormously, a great album and certainly one of the Major Independent Releases in 2003. For More Info Contact Karen Lynne Music or Shoestring Records on (02) 4757 3292 or 4788 1157