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Abernethy local musician, Trinity Woodhouse, has been focusing her extra time on working on a secret project, which will be released in the coming weeks to her fan base on social media. The 17-year-old singer/songwriter graduated from Tamworth's Academy of Country Music in 2017 where she began her songwriting journey.
Under the influence of accomplished Australian country music artists; Lyn Bowtell and Allan Caswell, Trinity's debut song 'Me and Sandy' was written. One year later, the song was released, charting at number 62 on the iTunes Country Charts and hitting number 18 on the Tasmanian Independent Country Music Awards.
"I [worked with Allan] having an idea of how technical writing would be and he just sort of threw it all out the window and told me; 'No, you've got to feel it'".
"I have adapted to his style of writing. I find I don't think about the technical side anymore, it's more what feels right".
The success of the song led to Trinity being awarded the Variety Heart Scholarship for two years in a row; 2018 and 2019. The scholarship offers the recipients opportunities to enhance their chosen talent and in Trinity's case, this was used to cover lessons, equipment, songwriting and recording.
"With my scholarship, I have guaranteed six months more of guitar lessons, so that I can better myself as a performer," Trinity said.
"Because of Variety, I have had some incredible opportunities, and will have more in the near future."
Being quite secretive about a new project she is working on, Trinity said more information will soon be released to her fans online, currently sharing teasers of what looks like a film clip in the making. She says everything that is happening behind-the-scenes is all "very exciting".
"With the latest scholarship, I got to spend a week down in Sydney working on something.
"I haven't officially announced anything, it's sort of there for who is paying attention."
Finding local musicians very supportive of the up-and-comer, Trinity said she had a lot of people help her recently as part of the project, including Newcastle based musician Katie Jayne.
"So many people were willing to put aside their time to help me make some stuff for people to see my music."
Working on her songwriting talent, both individually and with a range of musicians, including her inspiration Troy Kemp, the year 11 student is aspiring to expand on her career, allowing her to take the road as a full-time musician after she graduates.
