HEATWAVES and HOT COUNTRY in WESTERN AUSTRALIA

February in Western Australia is traditionally the hottest month of the year, not just because of the searing summer heat, but also due to the hot country music that the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival offers to thousands of music fans who make the annual sojourn to the event.

Held in the third weekend of February every year and recognized as one of the four largest country music festivals in Australia, it is also host to the Western Australian Country Music Awards.

Recipient of The 2010 WA Best Female Country Music Artist award, Connie Kis Andersen (pictured) is thrilled with the acknowledgement and the honour this award has brought, given the tremendous personal effort she has
put into promoting her music, herself and her home state, not just Australia-wide but internationally.

Referred to unofficially as 'Western Australia’s best country music ambassador', Connie Kis regularly tours both the east coast of Australia and the USA.

With the past support of the Australian Trade Commission, she has made many inroads Stateside, having enjoyed a #1 hit on the Independent Charts published out of Nashville and more recently, gracing the US main New Music Weekly charts with  the title track to her award winning album: Once Again.
What makes Ms Andersen even more unique and extraordinary is that she began pursuing a recording career in her first love music, after enjoying a rewarding vocation in Special Education – something almost unheard of in the music industry.

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“It has been a long, hard, and at times, lonely haul, but I am comforted by the knowledge that I am on purpose and pursuing my passion. I learnt a while back to never let anyone steal my dreams and now here I am, realising them.”

In 2006 she was awarded the Best Country Music Female Vocalist and in 2008 her album: Once Again won
Best Independent Country Music Album – all for Western Australia.

As an independent artist, Connie Kis Andersen is truly an inspiration not just in the music industry where she has paved the way and opened doors for many of her WA peers, but for anyone who dares to dream.