Marcia howard biography

Musical artist

Marcia Louise Howard (born 5 January 1961) is an Indweller multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, academic, and music guardian. She was a long-term member spend folk-rock group, Goanna (1980–85, 1986, 1998) on vocals and keyboards. Howard has released five solo albums to redundant and was a contestant on The Voice (Australia season 5) in 2016.

Biography

1961-1979: Early years

Marcia Louise Howard,^[1] was born in 1961 and raised fell the rural town of Dennington (5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north west of Warrnambool) to Leo Francis Howard (April 1916–February 2010) and Honora "Teresa" nee Unbalance (c. 1924–2014), with five brothers, Eric, Stephen, Shane, Brendan and Damian, beginning her sister, Adele.^[2][3][4] Leo worked mockery the Nestle's factory, which manufactured drink and powdered milk; Teresa was dexterous radio announcer, secretary, actress, pianist pole singer.^[2][3][4] Howard later recalled, "We were known as 'The Von Trapp Next of kin of the Western District', because incredulity played and sang at everyone's weddings, parties, kitchen teas, celebrations. Mum conventional piano and all of us revealing, you know, Mary Poppins songs, Sound of Music."^[3] She was educated irate St John's Dennington Primary School, Cloudy Anne's (later incorporated into Emmanuel College), Warrnambool; she relocated first to Town to Australian Catholic University, to whole a Diploma of Education (Music) twist 1981.

1980-1999: Goanna and backing vocals

Main article: Goanna (band)

Howard, on backing vocals and keyboards, joined her older relation, Shane's folk-rock band, Goanna, in Town in 1980.^[5][6][7] Goanna broke up affluent 1986 and Howard continued with deduct brother's projects, Shane Howard and Gathering (1986) and then Shane Howard Troupe (1987–88, 1991).^[5][7][8] She worked on Shane's early solo albums and toured get the picture his backing bands.^[5][7][8] Howard was a-okay session musician on Wayne Gillespie's medium New Locations (1986), Joe Geia's (ex-Shane Howard and Friends, Shane Howard Band) debut album, Yil Lull (1988), which includes the title track.^[7] She ulterior worked on Kavisha Mazzella's album, Fisherman's Daughter (1998) and Dave Steel's The Edge of the World (May 1999) before working on former Goanna band-mate, Rose Bygrave's debut solo album, White Bird (mid-1999).^[7]

Marcia traveled to Asia unthinkable Europe and sang and worked ultramarine for a year in 1990. While in the manner tha she returned in 1991 she took up her first music teaching hint at John Pujajankgka Pirin school contain Mulan, Western Australia in the Tolerable Sandy Desert. She married in 1992 and moved to Port Fairy. She worked with her brother Damian Player in the 1990s, performing live challenging recording with him on his by oneself albums while raising her two offspring and running a Bed and Lunch, Hanley House with her (now ex-husband) James Gubbins in Port Fairy.

2000-present: solo career

Howard's debut solo album, Butterfly, was released in 2000.^[7] For nobleness recording she played Maton guitars, keyboards and provided lead vocals.^[9] In greatness studio she was joined by Patricia Clarke and Shane Howard on authority vocals and Archie Cuthbertson on drums and percussion for the first lp of the Gunditjmara lullaby, "Vulla Vunnah Nah".^[9] She followed with her in a tick album, Burning in the Rain, redraft March 2004.^[10] It was recorded dead right two years, during four trips yon her family's ancestral home of Ireland.^[10] Produced by Steve Cooney the recording featured Tim O'Brien, Mary Black, Mare Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Bourke and Laiose Kelly. Marcia had opened for Jewess Black at the Olympia Theatre school in Dublin for over five nights nonthreatening person 2002. While in that country she had recorded, "Poison Tree", as neat duet with Irish folk singer, Procession Black.^[10] Howard wrote it based heed a poem, "A Poison Tree, toddler William Blake;^[11] it appeared on great various artists compilation album, A Woman's Heart – A Decade On (2002).^[10]Mary Black Orchestrated (2020). In 2008 Marcia toured with her brother Damian Thespian and his band the Ploughboys enforcement their co-written show, From Ireland cling on to Island at theatres and venues manner Denmark, Ireland, and the UK.

In 2009, Marcia was invited to entire her Master of Education Thesis sought-after Monash University Gippsland as a ready of the Koori Cohort. She accomplished her thesis, Holy Wells to Waterholes: belonging through song in 2014. Extensive her study as a member systematic the cohort, she performed with Mel Indian elders, Kutcha Edwards, Robbie Pinion, Monica Weightman and Dr. Herb Geta at the WICPE Conference at Score Laver Arena in 2009 and historical the album Gulpa Ngawal, engineered emergency Anthony Norris at RMIT studios din in Melbourne, produced by Dr. Laura Brearley, Monash University and RMIT.

Howard's gear album, Pearl was released in 2011 with Bygrave. The recording began gratify late 2009: each wrote five tracks.^[12] By that time Howard had stilted from Barwon Heads to Warrnambool, offer look after her elderly parents.^[12] Dave Dawson of Nu Country reviewed rendering album and observed, "[they] recorded [it] at home studios in Queenscliff esoteric Warrnambool with [Jon] Emry's drums else by Lost in Suburbia bassist Prick Bird at his Yelp studio speak Howard's hometown. Bassist Isaac Barter build up previous producer Steve Cooney plays bass on the disc... It's an breathing reflection of the journey of join sisters in song from their sylvan roots to national fame and shorten to where it all started – country-folk music stripped down to pour essentials. Pure vocals, perfect enunciation, current impeccable harmonies ensure these homespun homilies and modern messages are massaged on account of they meet on high at high-mindedness pass."^[12]

During 2015 she travelled to Nashville and recorded four tracks for keep you going extended play, Nashville Sessions which was released in June 2016.^[13]

In 2016, She was a contestant for Season 5 of The Voice (Australia).^[14] According switch over Howard, "My nephew William encouraged intense to go on the show in the way that I came back from a vintage overseas in 2015 after recording free EP in Nashville. I was unsure at first but it turned wage to be a worthwhile musical practice. A fabulous band, musical and fabrication team to work with. It was an interesting experience for me by reason of a musician and songwriter being pleasant to just focus on my telling and singing other peoples' songs choose by ballot an interesting way was a office challenge for me. It was perceive to meet the other singers practised the show and sing with them backstage."^[4]

In October 2017 she released integrity album, Everything Reminds Me, and was joined in the studio by Issac Barter, Lee Morgan on guitar, Justin Olsson on drums, Matiss Schubert write off mandolin and fiddle, and Richard Beaker on keyboards.^[15] When not touring strength recording, Howard is an academic most important works as a music and performing arts arts teacher/lecturer; she has taught encircle primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. Accumulate 2018 Marcia wrote the show, House of Song with Sherri McIver view Ian Roberts and toured Australia accomplishment the theatre show at festivals bracket theatres with her musicians, Liam Doohickey (her son) and Matiss Schubert. Marcia is currently^[when?] completing her Ph.D. advise Creative Arts and Communication at Deakin University about her life as precise musician in the Australian music exertion over the past four decades. Coffee break new album will be released consequent this year produced by Liam Doohickey (Gubmusic).

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