Jeanette Wormald is one of a new breed of singer/songwriters who can reflect what it's like to be Australian without having to draw upon the stereotypes which have characterised so much of this music in the past.

Born in Adelaide in South Australia, then raised in the small rural community of Mount Compass, her music reflects all the elements of living on the land. The hot sun, the wide blue sky, the hard bush life and our often-unacknowledged Aboriginal heritage.
In her teens Jeanette moved to Adelaide and later pursued a career in journalism for some years, travelling widely. However, music and a rural life eventually prevailed when she married a farmer and moved to a farm in low rainfall country known as the Northern Mallee several hundred kilometres from Adelaide. The Mallee is a drought-resistant eucalyptus tree and could also be a symbol of the characters of Australian men and women who farm much of the semi-arid farmlands of South Australia. Indeed, the Mallee environment became the catalyst for the writing of a number of Jeanette's well-known songs.

In recent years Jeanette's career has blossomed, thanks to regular touring and the production of a number of highly acclaimed recordings which have shown the Australian music industry that hers is a unique talent: an ability to write great songs but also a special affinity with audiences of all ages when she presents her show-stopping concerts with just a guitar, a swag of stories, and bell-clear songs that enthrall everyone who listens.

Although Jeanette now enjoys national and state recognition of her talent, and widespread national and international airplay, her career has only just begun.
She plans a number of future tours and is currently writing the songs which will feature on her next recording. Watch for her!

Jeanette Wormald is dressed by the Saltbush Clothing Company, Burra South Australia. Go to Saltbush

Jeanette Wormald – Accolades

Airplay
Jeanette has enjoyed sustained national and international airplay since the release of her first recording To the Mallee Born, with her music played in Europe, Britain, the US, Canada and Japan.

To date Opal Blue has spawned two top ten hits in the national Top 30 Country Music Charts and a top 20 hit for the single If This Isn’t Country. The single, Boundary Rider’s Daughter was also included in the ABC Saturday Night Country’s Hottest Hits Volume 3 compilation.

Jeanette also enjoyed widespread success with the Top 30 hit Messenger Bird.

Awards

2007 Country Music Awards of Australian finalist (Golden Guitars) for Vocal Collaboration of the Year for Out Here.

2007 Victorian and National Country Music Awards. Top Ten finalist in three categories including Independent Album of the Year. Final five finalist for best Australian duet Out Here.

2006 CMAA Achiever Awards Independent Entertainer of the Year finalist.

2005 SA Great Regional Arts Winner recognising Jeanette's role as an ambassador to regional Australia, rural women and her work with indigenous communities.

2004 Land & Water Australia Community Fellowship Award recognising a special personal contribution to community understanding about wiser ways of managing Australia's unique natural resources.

SA Music Industry Award.

Appearances

Jeanette tours regularly and has performed at major festivals including the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, National Folk Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival and Gympie Music Muster.

Her TV appearances include ABC Landline, On The Land, the Today Show, Postcards and children’s programme The Music Shop.

She has been a performer at key tourism events including Year of the Outback, Centenary of Federation and Encounter 2002.

She has performed or been a presenter at major awards including the CMAA Achiever Awards in Sydney (co presenting with Lee Kernaghan) SA Tourism Awards and SA Music Industry Awards.

Six week residency in Taiwan in 1996.