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ABOUT SARA STORER Sara an ex-school teacher turned country music sensation and hails from Kalkaringi (500kms south west of Katherine NT). Sara was born in the Malee district of Victoria (her family are wheat farmers) and studied teaching in Melbourne before setting off on a journey that took her to the Northern Territory via Camooweal (where she flipped burgers to get some money together) and met the man who would change her destiny. Harry was a retired Buffalo shooter and it was his stories that inspired Sara to try her hand at writing a song. The result was "Buffalo Bill" a moving and poetic song about Harry's life. Nine months after arriving in Camooweal she set off again and headed for the Northern Territory, where she worked as a schoolteacher in a town called Kalkaringi, (population 350) on the outskirts of an aboriginal settlement. When Sara wasn't teaching, she started writing songs and performing them at parties held on various stations all over the Territory. A friend (Donna) persuaded her to enter "Buffalo Bill" into the Adelaide River Talent Quest and Sara won the Encouragement Award that gave her automatic entry into the College of Country Music, held in Tamworth two weeks prior to the Country Music Festival. Sara travelled to Tamworth and was introduced to country music producer Garth Porter (best known for his work with Lee Kernaghan and Gina Jeffreys, but you may remember his name as keyboard player in Sherbet). Garth produced Sara's debut album and they recorded six demos, and released "Chasing Buffalo" in September 2000. The album spawned three number one singles including Sara's first hit "Buffalo Bill" which remains her favourite song. She had two more number one singles from that album, "Man Trap" (written about a bloke she met at Mataranka Rodeo!) and Roller Coaster (about that wonderful out of control feeling when you fall in love) and was awarded the Best New Talent Golden Guitar for the album at the CMAA Country Music Awards in 2001. Garth Porter recorded her second album "Beautiful Circle" in the second half of 2002 and produced another number one single, "Raining On The Plains", a duet with her idol, John Williamson. 2004 started as record-breaking, with Sara holding the most Finalist Nominations in the CMAA Golden Guitar Awards ever. Eight passes the record of seven held by Lee Kernaghan and Troy Cassar-Daley. Just prior to Tamworth, a DVD was filmed at her family property near Dubbo in NSW. Titled "Stories To Tell", it provides an insight into this delightful woman's personality, revealing the stories behind the songs. Her career has meant relocation for Sara and she now lives on the Central Coast of NSW. Firefly Sara's third album,she did what she always does - waited for the music and lyrics to arrive. "Doing this third album was a little bit scary - after Beautiful Circle, I felt like people were expecting a lot of me," Sara said. "But I feel very strongly that you can’t let yourself get stuck just because something’s been successful in the past. So I suppose I just did what I always do - I waited for the songs to come, for the inspiration to strike, and then let it flow out. A large part of Sara’s appeal lies in her uniqueness - she burst on to the Australian music scene just five years ago as a fresh, authentic female voice, and she hasn’t looked back since. Each album has taken a huge step into the musical unknown, and the extraordinary Firefly is no exception with songssuch as,"Snow in Mid-July" and "Dungarees" to classic story songs like "Molly Green" and "Chillers Bend" Firefly’s most personal songs deal with loss and sadness, however. The first single and title track, "Firefly", is a song about dealing with depression, and about being a small glimmer of hope in someone’s life. "Angel" - was inspired by the death of Sara’s close friend Harry Chandler - the man who featured in her first single, "Buffalo Bill", the song that kick-started her career.Firefly contains duets with Josh Cunningham of the Waifs ("Important Things") and Paul Kelly - the Slim Dusty classic, "Must’ve Been A Hell Of a Party". Sara’s brother Greg Storer also made significant contributions to Firefly. Not only did he co-write and perform a duet on "Chillers Bend" - a powerful story about a love affair that ends in a fatal mystery - he penned one of the album’s standout tracks, "Billabong", a song about his idyllic bush childhood. A song that Sara’s particularly proud of is the album’s opening track, "The Ballad of Tommy Foster" which looks at life behind bars from the inside. But Sara’s still very certain about what really matters in her life."My family, my music, my friends - they’ll always be what inspires me and what makes me happy. If I can stay grounded and remember that, then everything else will follow," she said.Never in the 32 year history of the Awards has an artist won more than Five Awards, but on that Saturday nightin Tamworth, January 24th, Sara Storer tied, beat, then annihilated the record by taking Seven Golden Guitars home. Sara's Awards included Female Vocalist of the Year, Album Of The Year and the coveted APRA Song Of The Year Award.* Information From Sara's official WebSitewww.sarastorer.com.au