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 was nominated for the best children's song in the 2010 Tamworth Songwriters Association awards.[6] She has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards[7] some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3',[8] and Colin MacKenzie.
Fahey received the TSA Songwriters Awards 2012 for Best Children’s Song,[9] and was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Best Australian Song in 2011[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
- ↑ Road to Nashville starts at Gulgong
- ↑ Ossie Ostrich Video Show
- ↑ [dead link]
- ↑ users.on.net
- ↑ Alita Fahey and Brothers3, Banks Of The Ohio from the The Song I Sang Album
- ↑ Nominations and winners, TSA Awards 2010[dead link]
- ↑ Canberra Country Songwriting Awards Honour Roll
- ↑ brothers3.com
- ↑ Tamworth Songwriters Association Past Winners
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