Tom Curtain We're Still Here CD

Tom discovered his passion for music while working on Mt Sanford Station in the NT. Here he worked with head stockman and recording country music artist Martin Oakes, who encouraged him to pick up a guitar and start writing songs about his experiences of living and working in outback Australia. What started out as some fun singing around the campfire and in the old corrugated iron shower, has led to an award winning career.

Katherine’s multi-awarded singer songwriter, Tom Curtain, celebrates the strength of rural communities in his latest album, ‘We’re Still Here’, inspired by the resilience he witnessed whilst touring through Queensland during the drought in late 2018, and again after the floods in early 2019 as he drove back to the Territory. Tom was so moved by the devastation he saw, that he penned the beginnings of ‘We’re Still Here’. “We were travelling through Central Queensland on the ‘Speak Up Tour’ and everything was in drought.  It was terrible. And then, weeks later coming back through, it was heart breaking to see how the floods had decimated the land, the animals and affected the communities.”