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Steve Durie is a Gippsland troubadour, a singer/guitarist performing ballads, blues and country music around south eastern Australia from Phillip Island to Coffs Harbour. Music is his passion; his experience at ANU School of Music, and playing in Canberra’s premier experimental rock band Oak provides the foundation for his constant development and exploration in music performance.
Steve has been an adventurer all his life, relishing new places, opportunities and people. While living and working around eastern Australia, as well as Papua New Guinea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, he’s taken his songs and his guitar with him wherever he goes. All along the way he and wife Annie were also performing as a duo, often getting a local band together wherever their current life adventure took them.
With his beloved Annie’s passing, Steve took to the road and spends much of his life travelling, tracing his footprints around eastern Victoria and NSW. Playing at taverns, cafes and pubs along the way, he showcases a mix of classic hits, diverse/Americana country rhythm and blues styles and original Gippsland songs. His heart in his voice, his compelling guitar rhythms and riffs take the audience on that journey with him.
Steve is based in South Gippsland, living on a small farm, with a mixed family of kids and grandkids, brumbies, ponies and alpacas. An experienced wildlife carer, he is devoted to and deeply immersed in our wonderful and unique Australian nature.. Touring and camping the mountains, forests, rivers and coastline of this beautiful country, living out of his van as he gigs, combines his great loves and he’s lived enough to know that’s a privilege indeed.
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