Winebar, Friday August 29 - 2.00pm

Winebar, Saturday August 30 - 6.30pm

Grove, Sunday August 31 - 11.30am

JESSICA BELLE

Four years ago 23 year old Jessica Belle picked up a guitar for the first time and within a few months, embarked on a musical journey that has seen this talent from the Central Coast of NSW, team up with some of Australia's most respected and credible songwriters, scoop up a number of prestigious songwriting awards and make a deep impression in the country music scene.

Jess is no stranger to songwriting and performing with a strong musical streak running through the family from her mother Patty Towers performing in a band in Sydney for years, to her uncle Doug Towers whom she recorded a duet with on her first album Just Walk Away, her first songwriting effort, produced by renowned country guitarist and fledgling producer, Glenn Hannah. Jess also credits artists such as Patti Griffin, Kathleen Edwards, Lucinda Williams as having a profound influence on her songwriting.

The album's title track received rave reviews on radio and saw Jess become firmly entrenched as one of the country music industries's most gifted new songwriters. In 2006, after becoming a finalist in both the Pacific Songwriting Competition and the Telstra Road to Tamworth, Jess spent a lot of time over in the United States travelling to country music's heartlands in Nashville, Memphis and Austin Texas gaining inspiration for her second album.

The chance meeting Jess had with Bill Chambers in 2003, who was having lunch at the café Jess worked at, resulted in him doing a duet with her, No Longer Mine, for the first album and so impressed was he with the talents of the young singer/songwriter that he put his hand up to record and produce her second.

Recently completed at Bill Chambers Music Studio on the Central Coast, this follow up album titled, Free All Year, sees a more musically mature Jessica Belle emerge featuring ten original songs and has special guests appearing such as Kasey Chambers, singer/songwriting great Shane Nicholson, Brisbane singer songwriter Michael Muchow and features a brilliant duet with Bill Chambers.

ACHIEVEMENTS
§ Finalist in Pacific Songwriting Competition (2005, 2006 & 2007)
§ Finalist in Toyota Star Maker (2005)
§ Winner TIARA Awards, Michael Cowdroy Memorial Award for Songwriting (2005)
§ Finalist in Telstra Road to Tamworth (2006)

ALBUMS
§ Just Walk Away - 2004
§ Free All Year - 2007