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Fran Swinn

About Me

Fran Swinn is a guitarist living in Melbourne where she plays in some bands and teaches guitar a bit. She is a member of the Jacqueline Gawler Quartet, Jazz Lives/Jazz Kills, and her own trio (obviously!).She has a degree and a grad dip from the VCA in Melbourne and in 2005 was awarded funding from the Australia Council and the Ian Potter Cutural Trust to do some study at the Banff Centre in Canada and at the Berklee College of Music clinics in Italy where she received a scholarship.Fran has also played on a number of film scores and in the occasional theatre show. She has appeared at a bunch of festivals including the Frankston International Guitar Festival, Melbourne Jazz festival, Apollo Bay music festival etc blah blah blah blah blah blah...Fran plays a strangely shaped guitar and is currently working on music for her first album. Apart from that she enjoys doing yoga and riding her bike around, fast.
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Member Since: 05/01/2007
Band Members: My trio is: Me on guitar, Tamara Murphy - bass, Ben Hendry - drums.Also a member of the Jacqueline Gawler band featuring Jacq on vocals with Tam M, Ben H and me.And new band: Jazz Lives/Jazz Kills: Chris Hale - bass, Allan Browne - drums, Lachlan McLean, Julian Wilson - saxes, Nash Lee and me - guitars.
Influences: The moon?
Sounds Like: "Nyow nyow ne noo ne nyow nyow ne nooooo ner ne nerrr ne nyow neyowww...."
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

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Sorry please excuse the quality of these recordings. They're all live using just one mic. Bit tinny and crunchy at times. Ah well you get the idea anyway. I'll put something better up in due course.
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:02:00 GMT