Songs are special. In a matter of minutes they can sum up your life, make you feel completely at home, or spark a wonderful memory. Graeme Connors is someone who writes those kinds of songs. As one of Australia’s most loved songwriters, he creates cinematic-style stories with music that we can hold on to; songs that somehow make sense of our lives even when we can’t.

Multi-Award winning Graeme Connors will start the 25th Anniversary celebration of his landmark album NORTH with one very special performance, back where it all began, in Queensland, at Brisbane’s prestigious QPAC Concert Hall on Friday April 11, 2014.

"I hold the album North very close to me. It's about the place I come from & I couldn't be happier celebrating its 25th anniversary in Queensland, the state that inspired it." explained Connors.

NORTH (recently voted by his peers as # 3 Best Australian Country Albums of All Time) was written about his Queensland roots, describing life in the North with songs like Cyclone Season, Let the Canefields Burn and the iconic title track A Little Further North Each Year. Queensland’s #1 singer songwriter has always had the spirit of his home town and state in his songs and it shines all through this album.

Graeme performs the complete album North, from beginning to end, as well as a special bonus track Our True Native Son recorded during the original sessions in 1988, and now finally seeing the light of day on NORTH, 25 Years On, his remixed, remastered and repackaged CD for 2014.

"It all started in December 1973 when I walked out of the classroom, the next day I hopped on a Fokker Friendship flight to Brisbane, jumped in a waiting hire car - and two hours later stepped on stage to open for a show in Toowoomba, ...hard to believe it's 40 years ago, it feels like yesterday" says multi award winner Graeme.

Unashamedly influenced by singer-songwriters like Randy Newman, Kris Kristofferson and another notable American songwriter John Prine, it was through Kristofferson’s songs that a young Graeme Connors learnt to "mean what you say and say what you mean". By the time he was 14, Graeme knew he, his guitar and songs, were going to be lifelong companions. The Queensland-born boy loved live performance and was already singing with his own band.

In a career spanning four decades, Graeme has released 17 albums, received multiple songwriter & album awards including an ARIA Award, Golden Guitar Awards, national & international songwriter awards as well as writing an extensive and impressive catalogue of songs for other artists including John Denver, Jon English and Slim Dusty, along with his own work; and for that, Graeme is included in the Queensland Influential Artists Q150 Icons List sharing that accolade with the likes of Geoffrey Rush, Judith Wright & The Bee Gees.