Liz Stringer was playing piano before she could talk. The dye was cast young. Some argue that she still communicates better with music than with conversation. She grew up in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest of three kids. Her Dad was a music teacher, her Mum a literature and history teacher. The house reverberated with music of some kind constantly. There were instruments and books on every surface. At thirteen Liz won a music scholarship to an elite private girls school.  At fifteen she started playing guitar. At sixteen she went to Germany, started a band and recorded her first demo with those boys. She cut her performing teeth in Germany.  She returned to Melbourne, went to her local high school, and began to write more and more songs. The guitar went everywhere with her. After she finished high school she went back to Germany, picked up the band where they’d left it, borrowed a black Fender Stratocaster and a Bassman amp, secured a rehearsal studio in a World War II bunker and rehearsed religiously over the next three years.  She wrote more and more songs, played some solo shows and began to focus on the acoustic guitar again. 2003 she was back in Melbourne. And by 2006 had made her first album, “Soon” with her best mate, drummer Adam May. Ten years later it’s 2016 and she’s released four subsequent albums and is about to release her 5th studio record. She recorded it in Portland, Oregon.  And she also fell in love. With Canada. So she started to plant roots and now she has a record deal and a bunch of beautiful friends there. She also gets back to her mob in Germany as often as she can. She’s toured around Australia perpetually for years. She’s played every major festival. She’s revered by her musical peers for her inherent musical talent and low tolerance for bullshit. She neither has, nor wants, industry attention and validation. She’s a musician. It’s pretty simple, really. - edited excerpt from biography at Liz Stringer

And she's going to be back in NS to play at Lift the Wind Concert Series on February 7, 2017! Hope to see you there.

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