2021 is an extraordinary year for everyone… for Scottish born Australian, Maryen Cairns, now based in Guernsey in The Channel Islands, the music technology she has been involved in for so long proved its use - a remote collaboration with producer Chris Kimsey, who also mixed and mastered The Haunted Lane in his home studio.
Maryen 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 playing shows both solo and with her band, including supports for FISH, The Troggs, Energy Orchard, UFO and Black 47. Back in Australia she started Sydney’s 1st “Originals Only” Open Mic night.
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, Femina Australis, 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.
Producer Chris Kimsey produced her 1st single Too Young To Die back in 1992, and they reunited in 2016 to record her Femina Australis album, then again for Come To Me in 2019, and their collaboration continues with Chris not only producing but also mixing and mastering The Haunted Lane.