Alita Fahey

Alita Fahey is an Australian former TV actress and reporter who appeared on Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network 10),[1] The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (Nine network)[2] and the children's show Antenna[3] (ABC). She also had roles on The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters and The Boy in the Bush (ABC).[4] Fahey appeared in many Australian films and commercials, has sung professionally for many years both in Australia and overseas, and is an accomplished singer/songwriter. She formed her own production company which specialised in children's musical entertainment and theatre in education shows for schools. She is an avid songwriter, director and musician. Her re-release of her single of the classic ballad Banks of the Ohio has been played on radio stations around the country.[5]

Awards

Fahey has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards[6] some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3',[7] and Colin MacKenzie.

Fahey received the TSA Songwriters Awards for Best Children’s Song in 2013 (I Should Have Listened), 2012 (Tony's Farm),[8] and was nominated in the same category in 2010 (Where The Eagles Fly).[9] She was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Songs for Children in 2011 (Tony's Farm)[10] and for Boy from Cooroy (with Colin Mackenzie) in 2014.[11] She also was a runnerup in the USA Songapalooza songwriting competition 2012 for her song Vodka and Pen which she co-wrote with Colin MacKenzie.

References

  1. ↑ Road to Nashville starts at Gulgong
  2. ↑ Ossie Ostrich Video Show
  3. ↑ dead link]
  4. ↑ users.on.net
  5. ↑ Alita Fahey and Brothers3, Banks Of The Ohio from the The Song I Sang Album
  6. ↑ Canberra Country Songwriting Awards Honour Roll
  7. ↑ brothers3.com
  8. ↑ Tamworth Songwriters Association Past Winners
  9. ↑ Nominations and winners, TSA Awards 2010 Archived 19 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ The Australian Songwriting Contest 2011 Results, retrieved 21 November 2015
  11. ↑ Congratulations To The Top 10 In The 2014 Australian Songwriting Contest, retrieved 21 November 2015
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