A Better Place
The Fortunate Souls
Studio Album
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Focus – Shelly Brown
Studio Album Featuring Mrs Miyagi
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Where The Owl Was – Shelly Brown
Studio Album – Vitamin Records
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Subtle, but powerful like the tides. Shelly Brown is a force of nature.
Be sure to experience her overwhelm, at least once in your life.
Shelly has one of those incredibly rare voices that reaches deep into your soul and controls you at will. Utterly captivating, dangerously powerful and honest as it comes. The best I’ve ever known.
Lloyd Spiegel; Australian Blues Guitarist. AUS
Honeyed Soul
Robbie Buck; ABC Radio National. AUS
Shelly is the queen, no, the empress of R&B. What a voice to die for! What a groove! What a kick!
Kristina Olsen; Folk/Blues Singer/Songwriter. U.S.A
Singer – Songwriter – Vocal Coach
Born in the bayou of Ballina in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Shelly was brought up singing music around the dinner table with her family. Music was about participation, passion and personal expression.
Immersed in the family business of manufacturing Light Sport Aircraft and a million other innovative creations, in which her job profile extended from weighing every single piece of the light aircraft to making the websites, to hanging out of helicopters to create the promo material or inserting her arms deep into wing cavities to fix push rods, she gained a diverse range of skills to assess, create, get involved and be interested in the entire processes of things. From inspiration, to creation to promotion and belief in a strong product. Who would have thunk the metaphor between aircraft design and independent music was possible, but, there it is.
Like Pancakes on a Sunday…
Thusly, she headed off to university to study music. Created some fearful albums, some fearless albums, learnt a little, taught a lot, travelled, toured and wrote. Always write. Always carry a guitar, and failing that, a pen.
For now the “To Do List” is long and diverse so be sure to stay tuned for the next album popping out in 2019. The Fortunate Souls Writing and Recording project with Producer Dirk Terrill has one full length album out and another hot on it’s heels for 2019/2020. The Mrs Miyagi Vocal Trio is currently on hiatus while babies are busy being babies, but she’ll never be far away from flouncing around a summery festival somewhere soon, music will also erupt from her like pancakes on a Sunday morning… slowly, and filled with sunshine and honey.
On the current burners, you will find The Happ Vocal Workshop. The Happ is a place to explore your voice with like minded inquisitive community. Get into your vocal techniques, breath a little, laugh a lot, warm up and practise working through your anxieties and question marks within your singing. Bookings are essential, please get in contact for more info.
Bubbling away at the back is a New Podcast “Singing Lessons for No one” for the singer who’s ready to do some voice work in the safety of their own podcast listening place.
Mrs Miyagi Vocal Trio
NEWS
News…
Burnin’ for a long Time (Shelly Brown) “Focus” 2019 – Lyrics
I’ll hold my breathe in so my cough doesn’t wake you
And slow down time here so you can heal
Cause from little things, big things burn
And you’ve been burning for a long while.
Sugar (Shelly Brown) “Focus” 2019 – Lyrics
You always spill the sugar, Just a little on the bench
Gritty Like sweet sandpaper, Grazing my hands
Tendrils of Love (Shelly Brown) “Focus” 2019 – Lyrics
a long as a beach, curling out of sight, is all I’ve got.
love lines, keeping us together, that’s all we’ve got.
Gigs…
ArtState Lismore 2017 Opening Night with Lismore Youth Jazz Orchestra
I was beyond excited to be invited to sing a handful of songs with the incredibly talented guys and gals in the Northern Rivers Conservatorium Youth Jazz Orchestra for the Opening Night of Artstate NSW 2017. Together we played a handful of Jazz Standards while the...
Mama Kin Spender Gigs at Mullumbimby Music Fest 2017
This year I was absurdly lucky enough to be involved in the Gospel Choir support the Mama Kin Spender gigs at Mullumbimby Music Festival 2017. Our 16 piece choir was delighted to sing six songs with this incredible act. Here is a look-see at one of their stunning...
Places to Sing around the Northern Rivers
Local Open Mic Jam Nights: Bangalow Pub - 7PM Tuesday's Lennox Pub - Late till late, Thursday Nights The Beach Hotel - 8PM Tuesday's The Byron Bay Brewery - 7:30PM Wednesday's Currumbin Rsl - Acoustic Sessions Middle Pub Mullumbimby - 3PM Sunday Community Hall...
Exercises…
Songwriting Exercise #7 – Town
ok, so, think of either the town where you were born, or a town you feel somewhat fond of. List as many street names from that town as you possibly can. From memory if possible. Avoid using google for most songwriting exercises. Googling leads to canoodling, which...
Songwriting Exercises #6 – Alphabet
Grab a writing implement to suit your writing taste and write the alphabet down the left hand side of the page. Leave some lines after each letter. Maybe two or three. Now leave that for just a moment, stand up and close your eyes. Take three very small steps, so as...
Songwriting Exercises #5 – WWWWW
Armed with a pen and paper, take yourself to be sitting on the doorstep of any door in your house so that you are facing the outside world, with the back to your homes inside. Take five calm, gentle breathes, in and out. Look about your home's exterior and write the...
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