Leah Flanagan

Leah Flanagan
Leah Flanagan performing live 2015. Photo by Chris Frape.
Background information
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Associated acts	Black Arm Band

Leah Flanagan is a singer-songwriter from Sydney, NSW. Leah has appeared on Australian TV shows Spicks & Specks and RockQuiz, has released 2 albums and toured extensively through Australia with her music and part of festival ensembles. Leah’s status as an Indigenous musician is one of pride and respect; she has helped make history with such recent essential albums as Archie Roach’s 25th anniversary reissue of Charcoal Lane and Buried Country 1.5, The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Her latest album Saudades was recorded at the studio of Midnight Oil's Jim Moginie and mixed by Paul McKercher (You Am I, Augie March)

“Leah Flanagan is hands down one of this country’s finest songwriters.” - Post To Wire

For a decade Leah Flanagan has filled the Australian music scene with her beautifully complex contemporary folk, alternative soul sound. Her incredible journey as an artist is woven with star-studded collaborations with the likes of Sinead O’Connor, Meshell Ndegeocello and poet Sam Wagan Watson; touring productions Exiles and the Black Arm Band;Adelaide Festival’s 2011 production of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, performing in Clinton Walker’s Buried Country Roadshow; duetting with Paul Kelly and Ursula Yovich and recently recording a duet of Archie Roach’s “I’ve Lied” with Marlon Williams. She has featured on the ABC’s Spicks and Specks, and Rockquiz programs and is currently part of the heartfelt 1967: Music In The Key of Yes production alongside Dan Sultan, Adalita and Ursula Yovich.