Songwriter Trysts

Two Gold Coast muso’s coming together during the pandemic. Singer-songwriter Straalen who was the youngest singer ever signed to SONY music and the celebrated DJ/Producer Jessy aka SVLT. These creatives have come together providing a very unique sound with to-die-for vocals, melody and story telling backed with a kickass beat. Together they bring soothing melodic synth sounds mixed with sweet beat...

Hayley Marsten’s sharp pen and open heart led to the creation of her stellar debut, ‘Spectacular Heartbreak’ in 2019. The album was crowdfunded, nominated for Alt-Country Album of the Year at the Golden Guitars, Country Work of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards in 2020, and was streamed over half a million times in the first year. Hayley leads with her heart and her humour both on and off st...

Hello Jane is a new folk singer songwriter who dreamed of being a teacher and studied at JMC Academy in Southbank. She fell into songwriting and loves the art of being simple yet emotional with her music and we get to delve deeper into her life and goals with music in this chat. Connect with Hello Jane: Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Spotify Buy me a coffee HERE 

Eden James chats with Rae Leigh on a featured episode of Songwriter Trysts, he shares how he spent his birthday with Amy Winehouse, why a Brisbane newspaper helped his Dad accept that being a songwriter was a thing and how he ended up having some of the greatest musicians in today's world playing on his latest music while recording in New York City.  His Award-winning Music Video here: https:...

Tia has only just turned 21 and has released two albums with the song “Strangers” just shy of 12 million streams and certified GOLD, 2 Triple J feature albums and the Queensland Music Award for album of the year for “Thick Skin”. The most exciting thing for Tia is that she has really settled in with her family of bandmates Jordan Bain, Sebastian Jennings-Hingston & Izzy De Leon.  Her live...

Sisters in Music is a podcast and group founded by songwriters Nicki Kris and Natalie Jean, their goal is to build a global network of women who are interested in a creative sisterhood working together for career growth, live performance opportunities, networking, support, and to raise money/awareness for various female focused charities. Nicki Kris is an award-winning Billboard charting singer/so...

From Tamworth, the country music capital to living in Sydney as a singer-songwriter. Penrose is doing what she loves and making music that she absolutely loves. Her get away from school and the hard life of adolescence she would run to music and her horses. Wanting to go to the Olympics but also finding passion in performing Penrose has ambition and love for her music and hopes to inspire others t...

2021 is gearing up to be an incredibly promising year for indie-pop artist, Ronen. His current single, “Wake Me Up” featured on Grey’s Anatomy - received overwhelming support, including a nod as Tunefind’s “Top TV Song of The Week” and impressive streaming numbers upon its debut. Struggling with ADHD as a kid and was encouraged to play the drums to help with getting his energy out leading to guita...

Country on Keppel is an annual celebration of contemporary country music including established artists and rising stars, held at Great Keppel Island Hideaway.  We speak to one of the organisers Peter Blundell brother to James Blundell who shares with us on episode #70. Peter shares about the exciting venue, what you need to do to join in the fun and everyone who is going to be there including...

Kylie Morgan is a singer songwriter with a huge heart. She is a passionate performer who has used her love for music to talk with teens about anti bullying and mental health. She shares in this podcast about one of her first songs telling the story of a young girl who killed herself and around how that song then went onto touch and even save other lives once it was shared. That is when Kylie says...

Kate Schutt is an incredible singer songwriter that is down to earth and passionate about sharing her experiences and life lessons through public speaking and song. Her Ted X talk "A Grief Casserole -- How to help your friends & family through loss" has been viewed over 36 thousand times and her story about supporting her mother through terminal cancer has inspired her passion and music as she...

Kendra Muecke is a singer/songwriter, writer, actress, and published author from Houston, TX based now in Los Angeles, CA. She performs under the stage name “Kendra & the Bunnies”, as a psychedelic folk rock Americana and spoken word artist. “Kendra & the Bunnies” performs both as a full band and as a solo acoustic act. Her style heavily utilizes the element of storytelling through song, p...

In this episode we chat with Country singer songwriter Brook Chivell and hear about his obsessive musical upbringing in Melbourne and desire to be jet setting all over the world. he wrote his first song at age 6 and started playing guitar at 17 just as he was supposed to be studying for his end of school exams. Heading down the rock path and playing in cover bands all over Melbourne he had to get...

Host Rae Leigh and featured guest Kat Cunning have a beautiful in-depth chat about art, covid, life, relationships and sex. The two of them share around how often sex is brought up in conversation around the negativity side of sex but often the beautiful spiritually healing side of good sex is not discussed and both connected over the power and experiences they have had getting them to where they...

Matt Cornell is a talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has worked and toured with the likes of Richard Clapton, Shannon Noll, Jenny Morris, Damien Leith and iconic rock band, The Baby Animals and most recently with Australian Country superstar Adam Brand. He is a Sydney boy who grew up in a house full of music from his mum and dad and always had creative people in the house an...

Alyssa Jacey is a multi-genre, award-winning singer/songwriter, inspirational career coach, dancer/choreographer whose other passions like, public speaking, acting/modeling, and TV Hosting became more than just passions after moving to Nashville nearly 10 years ago, from her hometown San Diego, California. Her infectious personality, easy-going music, and smooth vocals make Jacey a deeply original...

Camille Trail loved to sing, starting in the shower then the school choir and realising there was space for her in the Australian Country Music industry through spending time at the Junior Australian Academy of Country Music she went off and released her first album and hasn't looked back. Connect with Camille: Website Spotify YouTube Facebook Instagram

Kora Naughton is a 19yr old singer songwriter releasing music in the Australian country scene. Her latest single "Lap Around the Sun" is out now and a fun country pop tune. She released her first album at 16 and found love in music even when her friends were out at parties and she was at gigs she never regretted it because it felt so right.  Living with spina bifida she's had lots of health c...

Christian Nelson is from Atlanta US, he is a BMI-Singer Songwriter, ATL Solo Artist Award Winner, Vocal Producer, Commercial Jingler CEO of @salute_tees Business Owner from Grand Rapids MI. In this talk we find out more about his passion, drive and wisdoms of how he is building his musical empire with a true entrepreneur spirit. From everything Rae  and Christian talk about the one thing that...

Lisa Butler from the Australian Songwriters Conference (ASC) joins us on a bonus Friends of Songwriter Trysts episode to talk about their amazing one of a kind songwriters conference in Australia that is a must attend for all serious songwriters. She shares more about Who, What, Where ,When and Why this conference is so amazing and you will be bursting to get yourself there this year after hearing...

Australian Country singer songwriter JD Reynolds inspired by her amazing mother for her singing and songwriting with Dolly Parton, Elvis, Micheal Jackson, Prince and heaps of amazing artist on repeat in the house. She was scouted at a young age to be a professional ballet dancer but when she was a teenager had an over night growth spurt and was too tall to dance anymore professionally, she became...

Mimoza is Albanian, she was born in Kosovo, just like Dua Lipa and Rita Ora, and at a very young age because of the war in the late nineties, in Kosovo, her parents moved to where she grew up in Sweden and Germany and then a few years ago, she moved to the US to pursue her career. She was coached at a young age that the whole music industry is based around the quality of the song and so she worked...

Nicole from Women Of Country has a mission to evolve country music into an inclusive space for artists of all races, genders, and sexual orientations to be heard on the radio, in award shows, and at the top of the charts.  She has an incredible Blog, playlists and is an intern with the American Country Awards. Support this mission by following and getting engaged with the women of country thr...

Had an amazing chat with Avatari and talked about how he was influenced by his dad who was in music too and got to go to shows with Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson as a kid. We talked about the 80's inspired music video he produced with a team of people in LA and how it all came about, it has nods to Karate Kid, Back to the future and others, check out the video on his YouTube...

In this podcast we get to know Courtney on a whole new level talking about her history with music and journey to finally releasing her music. It's never an easy journey and now she is doing it she is taking over the Australian country scene.  Rae Leigh and Courtney have a discussion about the last few years, being an emerging artist through out the Covid period and the challenges and success...