Fran Swinn Trio

Filed under: Artists profiles — Peter Knight at 3:20 pm on Friday, March 30, 2007

Fran Swinn: guitar
Tamara Murphy: bass
Ben Hendry: drums
Fran Swinn is a guitarist living in Melbourne where she plays in some bands and teaches guitar. She is a member of the Picture Box Orchestra, the Jacqueline Gawler Quartet and her own trio.

She has a degree and a grad dip from the VCA in Melbourne and in 2005 was awarded funding from the Australia Council and the Ian Potter Cutural Trust to do some study at the Banff Centre in Canada and at the Berklee College of Music clinics in Italy where she received a scholarship.

Fran has also played on a number of film scores and in the occasional theatre show. She has appeared at a bunch of festivals including the Frankston International Guitar Festival, Melbourne Jazz festival, Apollo Bay music festival etc.
fran-swinn.jpg
Presenting original material by Fran alongside some of their favourite hits from the 20th century. With an emphasis on freedom and group interplay, this group plays music that is grungy, wobbly at times but quite pretty.

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.