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During this interview with Tamworth-based country music artist Aleyce Simmonds you’ll occasionally hear her talking to her young daughter, Georgia, who was nearby during the chat, and, towards the end, her husband. I could have edited out these lines, but for what reason? To pretend that Simmonds wasn’t at home, doing the interview near her garden, with the setting sun and birds nearby and her beloved child at her feet? This is life – it is her life – and she has gone through great challenges to build it. Her experiences, her triumphs, her grief, her determination, all go into her artistry as well as into that life. So it was a fitting context for our conversation about the twentieth-anniversary release of her hit single ‘Mighty Mighty Love’.
Simmonds has rerecorded this track, which 20 years ago became the most played country song on commercial radio in Australian history and changed her life forever by opening up opportunities to the young artist she then was. We talk about what happened at that time, and what’s happened since, and about the new recording.
We also talk about her involvement with the Academy of Country Music, where she’s been an integral part of the Junior course for several years. At her Tamworth Country Music Festival show on 18 January at the Tamworth Hotel, Junior Course students that she mentored in July this year will open the show. Five dollars from every ticket to her Tamworth Country Music Festival show will be donated to CanAssist, and we talk about why she has chosen CanAssist.
‘Mighty Mighty Love’ is the title of Simmonds’s song but it could also be a statement about how she lives – fully immersed, not shying away from emotions even when they’re hard, and open hearted. You can hear all of that in the recording and also in this interview.
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