Kate returns to regional areas

ARMED with an incredible set of brand new arrangements and backed by a string quartet, Kate Miller-Heidke is bringing her classically-trained vocals and alternative pop sounds to Toowoomba early next month.

A dynamic artist straddling the worlds of pop, folk and opera, Miller-Heidke has spent the last year performing a suite of her songs with symphony orchestras around the country to huge acclaim, winning the Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert.

Her performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was captured and released as a new album, Live At The Sydney Opera House, which was nominated for an Best Classical Album at this year’s ARIA Awards.

Now Miller-Heidke will take a new musical combo on the road, adapting many of her orchestral pieces into new arrangements that combine her unique vocals and alternative pop sounds – as well as the incredible guitar skills of long-time collaborator Keir Nuttall – with the classical stylings of a string quartet.

Audiences can expect to hear exciting new versions of some of her most beloved songs, as well as surprises from the back catalogue.

There will be adaptations of songs from her opera The Rabbits, as well as a sneak peak of some new material, as Kate road-tests songs for her next album.

As well as the regional shows noted, Miller-Heidke will also perform at the Gold Coast at Festival 2018 as part of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Kate will also finally take her orchestra show to Adelaide, performing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the Adelaide Town Hall as part of the Adelaide Festival.

And for the first time she will take her orchestra shows out of the capitals, performing with the Toowoomba Concert Orchestra at QSU on January 12 which has sold out.

Beyond her recorded music career, Kate Miller-Heidke has recently made forays into the world of music theatre, composing an opera The Rabbits in 2015, and has recently finished work with Nuttall on composing the music and lyrics for Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company last month.

You can still catch Miller-Heidke at the Woodford Folk Festival Saturday and Sunday, December 30-31.