After raising $15k via Pozible to record her stunning debut album, Queen Of Swords, on a bus journey into the Australian outback, Irish-born, Australia-based singer-songwriter Áine Tyrrell then won Queenscliff Music Festival’s ‘Emerging Talent 2014’.

Working under the warm guidance of Shane Howard and Clare Bowditch, Áine’s been sharing her amazing story ever since. A story she recounted as she recorded her album outdoors under the stars and in abandoned mines in the Australian outback.

Pairing up with producer Mark Stanley, she boarded a 1966 Bedford Bus and took the pieces of her life and songs into the desert on a quest for musical and spiritual self-discovery, and from this one seed of temerity, a desert rose grew.

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