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Steam 4:050:00 / 4:05
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Come To Me 3:170:00 / 3:17
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Mimbi 3:440:00 / 3:44
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Electronic Press Kit
Short Biography
Maryen cairns
Maryen Cairns is an Australian singer/songwriter now based in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Maryen has recently re-emerged as a diverse artist, writing and performing from her authentic heart and real life experience, fearlessly exploring genres and textures from her contemporary folk rock background.
Although to the general public Maryen is a new face, she has worked for many years on her craft, which has taken her both across Australia and around the world. She was based in London for a decade working with world class musicians & playing shows both solo and with her band, including supports for FISH at Hammersmith Apollo and The Troggs at The Astoria Theatre. She instigated and ran the 1st Sydney Songwriters Open Mic night for 2 years. Having raised a family on an off-the-grid mountaintop in South East Queensland, Maryen worked with children in remote communities in Western Australia to help them write their own stories into song, and wrote a show telling the stories of 12 significant Australian women, presenting it at the Somerset Celebration of Literature and taking it on the road with her family across 18,000 kilometres in 2017.
All the time she was writing, writing, writing. With a fascination for the imagined, the deep spiritual world and very real history (which often proves stranger than fiction), Maryen has continued to develop as a singer and songwriter, as evidenced in her 2019 album COME TO ME, which is produced by iconic producer Chris Kimsey and recorded with a live band including Jennifer Maidman (Boy George, Penguin Cafe Orchestra), Paddy Milner (Tom Jones), Evan Jenkins (Neil Cowley Trio), Karlos Edwards (Robert Palmer, Michael Buble, Spice Girls), Ollie Clark, Sani Bolton and Maryen’s son Elvis Kernaghan guesting on electric guitar.
Live Videos
STEAM live 2020, GONE - 2019
Short snippets of The Wreck Of The Georgette, The Devil's Fly, Born Good
Maryen @ Festival of Small Halls
House Of Prog
17 November 2019
"she allows her vocals to soar and the electric guitar break is quite superb as it transforms the piece.
Overall this is a more varied album than ‘Femina Australis’, yet still manages to retain her roots, so she uses a steel when the time is right, or a violin, and plenty of piano and warm fretless bass. It is again the album of a mature artist who is confident in her ability and songwriting skills. She can put an edge on her vocals, or just lift them up showing her soprano range, or let it come down lower to provide more emotion. Lyrics are incredibly important to Cairns, and each song really is a story in its own right"
- Kev Rowland