Alita Fahey

Alita Fahey is an Australian former TV actress and reporter who appeared on Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network 10),[1] The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (Nine network)[2] and the children's show Antenna[3] (ABC). She also had roles on The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters and The Boy in the Bush (ABC).[4] Fahey appeared in many Australian films and commercials, has sung professionally for many years both in Australia and overseas, and is an accomplished singer/songwriter. She formed her own production company which specialised in children's musical entertainment and theatre in education shows for schools. She is an avid songwriter, director and musician. Her re-release of her single of the classic ballad Banks of the Ohio has been played on radio stations around the country.[5]

Awards

Fahey has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards[6] some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3',[7] and Colin MacKenzie.

Fahey received Tamworth Songwriters Association Awards for Best Children’s Song in 2013 (I Should Have Listened), 2012 (Tony's Farm),[8] and was nominated in the same category in 2010 (Where The Eagles Fly).[9] She was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Songs for Children in 2011 (Tony's Farm)[10] and for Boy from Cooroy (with Colin Mackenzie) in 2014.[11] She also was a runnerup in the USA Songapalooza songwriting competition 2012 for her song Vodka and Pen which she co-wrote with Colin MacKenzie.

References
  1. "Road to Nashville starts at Gulgong". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  2. Ossie Ostrich Video Show
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  4. users.on.net
  5. Alita Fahey and Brothers3, Banks Of The Ohio from The Song I Sang Album Archived 22 September 2014 at WebCite
  6. Canberra Country Songwriting Awards Honour Roll Archived 19 September 2014 at WebCite
  7. brothers3.com
  8. Tamworth Songwriters Association Past Winners
  9. Nominations and winners, TSA Awards 2010 Archived 19 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  10. The Australian Songwriting Contest 2011 Results, retrieved 21 November 2015
  11. Congratulations To The Top 10 In The 2014 Australian Songwriting Contest, retrieved 21 November 2015
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