Lizzie Steadman is a top 10 Grand Finalist in the upcoming 2019 Toyota Star Maker event, to be held during January’s Tamworth Country Music Festival. This won’t be far from home for Steadman, an Aboriginal singer-songwriter who grew up in a small country town near the country music capital. She was introduced to country music as a child, by her father, and taught herself to play guitar.
Steadman has worked as a jillaroo on some of Northern Territory’s largest cattle stations, an aged care nurse at Mutitjulu (Uluru), as a nurse in Tamworth and now as a caseworker assisting disadvantaged youths. That rich and varied experience working with people is possibly the reason why Steadman’s songwriting and singing is so heartfelt, as can be heard on her new single, ‘Here We Go Again’. This is a song in a traditional country style and Steadman’s voice captivates from the first note, then takes the listener through deep emotions. It was written with Shane Nicholson at a songwriting retreat at the Dag Sheep Station in Nundle, NSW, and produced by Steve Newton in Tamworth’s Enrec Studios.
Steadman was awarded the Troy Cassar-Daley Indigenous Scholarship to attend the CMAA Academy of Country Music in January 2018 and she was was a finalist in the Indigenous women category for the ZONTA International Women’s Day Awards. ‘Here We Go Again’ shows you why she has been given such recognition – it is a glorious song, and Steadman is a major new talent.
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