Sarah Maclaine - The Heart of Me (2015)

Lush, sophisticated jazz-vocal interpretations of popular songs with elegant, understated instrumentation.

As a singer of both jazz and pop, Sarah has interpreted some popular songs in a jazz style to create her new album, "The Heart of Me". Here's what she has to say about it: "This is an album where each of the songs I've selected has a place in my heart. Every track has a special meaning to me, and I hope this comes through in my heartfelt performance of each one."

Sarah Maclaine is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is also a performer at International Jazz festivals. In 1997 she started performing on Good Morning Australia, hosted by Bert Newton. She sang on the show regularly until it stopped airing in 2006, appearing approximately eighty times over that period. As well as Good Morning Australia she has also appeared and sung on other television shows such as Hey Hey it's Saturday; Denise Drysdale's "Denise" morning programme ; The Good Friday Appeal; the AFL's Brownlow Medal. She has also featured in a number of television commercials.

She has performed at various international festivals and events like the 2006 Commonwealth Games Premiers Dinner, The Melbourne International Jazz Festival,[10] The Stonnington Jazz Festival, The Melbourne Music Festival, The Australian Formula One Grand Prix, many performances for the AFL's night of nights – The Brownlow Medal and the Ford Australia Annual Awards dinner hosted by Craig Lowndes. Sarah Maclaine is also a songwriter. As well as writing her own songs, she has also collaborated with drummer Liberty Devitto for the song "Drifting". She has performed and worked with entertainers such as Peter Cupples (Stylus) and Ross Wilson

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