Since March, Amber Lawrence and Catherine Britt have been touring through NSW, Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland.
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Now the pair are into the southern NSW and Victorian leg.
But that’s not all for Lawrence. In May she sang an original song on board the USS Intrepid on New York’s Hudson River, with President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull among the audience.
It was the biggest performance of her career, an incredible highlight, but there will be less fanfare when Lawrence and Britt present their Love and Lies Tour at Albury’s Commercial Club on Friday and Club Mulwala on Saturday.
“The president is probably not going to turn up,” Lawrence jokes, “but the people who buy tickets are way more important to me than all those dignitaries that’s for sure.
“It is an intimate show and you get to know the stories of Catherine Britt and myself … and we really focus on the harmonies and musicianship as well. It’s a fun night.”
The Love and Lies Tour is an intimate showcase of the pair’s singing and songwriting talents, stripped back to just guitars and bass.
“At the beginning of each run of shows Catherine and I toss a coin and whoever gets heads goes on first for that show and then the next night we swap,” Lawrence says.
“Fanny Lumsden goes on first and opens, it’s her hometown area so that’s great, then we finish the show together and afterwards go out and meet the audience, all that kind of stuff.
“It’s a pretty even billing, we don’t try to make it one is a bigger star than anyone else.”
Lawrence – the 2015-16 country music female artists of the year and 2015 Golden Guitar winner – has risen to the top of the charts and country music in Australia not only through her amazing talent, but also through sheer determination.
Music wasn’t her first career choice.
She was an accountant by trade, working in Sydney for Qantas for several years.
Writing songs was a fun, personal hobby.
“When I started playing them at family gatherings or open mic nights about 10 or 12 years ago, people asked when I was going to record the songs,” she says.
“That’s when the whole idea of having a music career started for me. I was 25 when I actually first started.
“It’s been a real exciting journey for me, having two different lives. One of being a city accountant and then flip that to become a self-employed travelling musician.”
