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01 - Jesse 4:520:00/4:52
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02 - Countrymen 3:570:00/3:57
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03 - Beloved 5:450:00/5:45
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04 - Shining For You 4:550:00/4:55
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Sing it Out 4:110:00/4:11
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Springs Rain 3:480:00/3:48
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Where Do You Run 3:430:00/3:43
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Drink it In 4:140:00/4:14
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Kangaroo Paw 3:320:00/3:32
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Drifter 4:020:00/4:02
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Moody Blue 2:420:00/2:42
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Love Truth and New 4:570:00/4:57
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Muddy Brown 3:180:00/3:18
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Come and Go 4:150:00/4:15
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Yo-yo 5:120:00/5:12
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Carry it Easy 1:540:00/1:54
“Your music is heartfelt, inspiring and beautiful”
— Josh Cunningham - THE WAIFS
Bio
Heartfelt, smooth and down to earth, Alice Springs singer/songwriter and mother of four, Katie Harder embraces you with her music. Her lyrics have a depth that resonates long after the final chord. Her folk/roots melodies etch into your mind. Her stories carry a warm authenticity and humour.
Katie Harder is a storyteller. Her songs have a disarming honesty and their recording is warm and intimate as she and her band enfold you with their sound and soul.
Katie’s sound has evolved over 20 years from joyful rock/pop to a more mature and thoughtful Alt folk/roots/country sound. From humble beginnings writing songs at the age of 8 in the classroom to performing to imaginary audiences on the back of her Dad’s truck with a tennis racquet, writing and performing has always been flowing through Katie’s veins. This journey is beautifully showcased in the nuanced production of her single Sing it Out released in 2021. Encouraged by great songwriters like Paul Kelly, The Waifs, Crowded House and Missy Higgins, Katie’s music has that all Australian sound. She explores ideas and emotions with a joyful rawness that inspires her listeners to get the most out of life. Her songwriting gives voice to an earnest female perspective that contrasts vulnerability, strength, independence and commitment. Love, the giving of self and the struggle for balance as a mother and woman are common themes in her song writing, as well as the contrast of life in the centre’s red dirt and the south’s lush green.
Katie’s career highlights are impressive and include performing alongside Claire Bowditch and Warren H Williams, touring the Northern Territory with her ever faithful and inspiring band ‘The Artful Dodgers’ as an ArtbackNT artist (baby in tow!), being shortlisted in the 2010 Australian Song-writing Awards and supporting The Waifs, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown and Jeff Lang. Other achievements involve running the Alice Springs Desert Music Club between 2014-2016, and regularly involving herself with the women of Alice Springs through workshops, Desert Divas, and Bush Bands Bash. Over the years she has been a regular performer at Wide Open Space festival, Desert Song Festival, Desert Festival and the Darwin Festival. Always re-inventing herself and her music she was also found travelling with a troupe of women called the ‘Buffelettes’ to Tamworth Country Music Festival and the Top Half Folk Festival in 2023.
During 2023 Katie found herself collaborating with the Mparntwe String Band and Folk Song Collective as they re-worked an old and favourite song of hers - Muddy Brown.
TIme was also spent co-writing a song with Dave Garnham for the Stuart Hwy Project Part 2 - A project that tells the stories that are found whilst travelling the Stuart Hwy. Katie and Dave wrote the song “100 Miles Down the Track” where they tell the story of the coniston massacres. Though a difficult write that Katie describes as “the heaviest and hardest song I’ve ever written”, Katie and Dave were both pleased with how the music and lyrics have woven together to really capture the sad story.
Katie Harder has released 3 EPs and 2 albums. Her last EP titled ‘Beloved’ was recorded live with her band ‘the Artful Dodgers’ whilst heavily pregnant. Having spent a lot of time writing instead of gigging in 2021, Katie penned her single ‘Sing it Out’. Released in April 2021 and recorded by award winning producers Ben Allen and Dave Crowe she also put her hand to grant writing and secured funding from Alice Springs Town Council to aid in its recording. Released through Sing Hum Records, ‘Sing it Out’ is a song for the times. The song calls the listener to find healing from the hardships of the past year and the brokenness in the world by giving voice to them and ‘singing them out’!
With big things planned for 2024 keep an eye out for this inspiring musical lady.