Entertainment
9 October, 2025
Legend keen to headline
AUSTRALIAN country music icon Kasey Chambers is getting ready to grace the main stage at Savannah in the Round this Friday night in her second appearance as a headlining act for the festival.
A legend in the Australian music industry, Chambers is loved for her unique voice, thoughtful lyrics, and her personality.
She also boasts an array of awards including 14 ARIAs, 24 Golden Guitars, and 10 songwriting awards, and, in 2017, became the youngest female ever to be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
This year will be the second time Chambers has played at Savannah in the Round and she’s “keen as”.
“We’re coming up to Savannah in the Round this week. Even though I technically get to call that work, it doesn’t really feel like gruelling work I must admit. It feels a little bit more like a holiday,” she laughed.
“We love it up there. We’ve played up around that area quite a lot over the years. We’re really lucky with the fan base we have up there and lots of people come out to the gigs, whether it’s for a music festival or it’s my own gig.
“There’s a lot of country music supporters up there which is great. I just love the area too, personally, like even just to go and stay around for a few days, I love it. So definitely looking forward to it, we’re keen as.”
Chambers has spent the majority of this year on tour promoting her latest album Backbone (released October last year) but has just returned from a visit to Africa.
“It had been a while since I’d done a proper tour of my own, years actually. So that was great, I really enjoyed it,” she said.
“But it’s actually been really nice these last couple of months, it’s been a lot slower for me – just doing gigs here and there.
“I just spent the last few weeks in Africa, which I do quite regularly, though I hadn’t been for a little while. I’m the ambassador for a little school in Zambia. It’s good being off grid for a little bit, and no one has a clue who Kasey Chambers is over there.
“We still teach music to the kids over there in the school and to the community, but on a completely different level obviously than promoting an album. So that was a really nice way to offset the first half of the year for me. It also just puts a whole lot of life into perspective, that’s for sure.”
Chambers said she would play a couple of songs off the new album, but reassured fans she will be performing a lot of her well-known songs.
“I love playing all my old songs, and I love playing the songs that people want to hear as well. I’ve always really loved that side of performing,” she said.
“When people come to see me live, I want them to know me more as a person by the end of the set. There are so many songs in my career that are such a big part of who I actually am, not just who I am as a musician, but they tell stories about things that I’ve been through.
“Obviously the song Backbone is a pretty big part of who I am. But also one of the biggest songs of who I am is The Captain – which is one of my first songs I ever wrote.
“Not Pretty Enough has always been a big part of my life, and Barricades and Brickwalls, We’re All Gonna Die Someday – they’re all such a big part of who I am.
“I still love playing all of those and it’s just a bonus that they’re the ones people want to hear.”
Chambers will be playing at 7.20pm on the Cape Stage this Friday night before US act Jackson Dean. For more information on the event, visit www.savannahintheround.com.au
