Release 15 th March 2024
“absolutely incredible ” BBC WOMAN’S HOUR
“her music is truly haunting” BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
Australia Tour Edition of Award winning Album Small Voyages will be released on 15th March 2024, in time for Chloe Matharu’s Australia Tour.
Chloe is a multi- Award winning singer songwriter and harpist from the West Coast of Scotland. She draws inspiration from the natural environment around her as experienced at sea as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy. Her purpose in music is to lend a voice to the modern day seafarer; to write a new chapter in maritime folk music. Chloe is Scottish Indian with cultural roots in the Punjab, Scotland and Wales. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, featured on TV in the BBC Scotland News programme, The Seven, as well as performing at Cambridge Folk Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. She was awarded Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year in December 2022, and in 2023 won a Danny Award at Celtic Connections, was Scots Singer of the Year Nominee in the MG Alba Trad Awards, nominated in the Wales Folk Awards, was a finalist in Canada’s Goderich Celtic Music Festival Emerging Artist Showcase, and won the Greenock Telegraph’s Live Music Award.
Small Voyages Australia Edition is an album of nine original songs which includes a bonus track, “Towards the Hebrides”. This album documents Chloe’s experiences as an Officer of The Watch in the Merchant Navy which brought her around the world including Australia. The album will be available on all streaming platforms as well as in hard copies at her gigs, as well as through an Australian distributor. “Towards the Hebrides” is a song written about escaping the heat of the city, traveling out to the space and light of the Scottish Islands. Chloe has created her own music video documenting her journey from Glasgow to Hosta Beach on the Isle of North Uist.
She is about to return to Australia with her debut Australia tour, we invite reviewers to contact for complimentary tickets.
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Olivia Long PR
