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Al Parkinson
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Simply watching Al Parkinson perform, you immediately feel like she is an old friend. Her relaxed presence and hilarious on stage banter is the perfect complement to her soulful voice and wonderfully constructed songs of love and loss.
Al has shared the stage with some of Australia’s most highly regarded acts including Matt Corby (Communion Melbourne), Liz Stringer, Bonjah and Jordie Lane. She has also secured international supports with David Ryan Harris (USA) and Ryan Keen (UK), to name a few. Al made her festival debut at Queenscliff Music Festival in 2012 followed by Apollo Bay Music Festival in April 2013. Since then she has been busy performing all around Melbourne, along the East Coast and South Australia performing at distinctive nights such as ‘High Tea’ (Sydney), The Reading Room Sessions and Band on A Boat (The Jam Room, SA).
Like This is the first release from Al Parkinson since her self-titled EP which she released in late 2011. Carefully and beautifully built upon delicate layers of strings, Al’s signature strum of the ukulele holds it steady – as her warm honeyed vocals soar, and breathe, in all the right places. It’s about those moments when someone makes your day go “from like this, to like this” – and Al, true to her style, captures the simple sentiment with an honest elegance that will leave you feeling, well... like this.
