Homegrown Trio to make festival debut in Deni

The trio found fame on the Voice Australia in 2018.

They were then driven to relocate to Nashville in the US in 2021, soaking up experience and honing their skills in the country music capital of North America.

Katelyn the lead vocalist and primary songwriter, Liam is the virtuosic guitar player and provides backing harmonies and Kasey is the backbone of Homegrown Trio’s rhythm with her drumming and vocals.

From their current base in Nashville, Katelyn told the Pastoral Times the siblings started their ‘Australian country band’ in 2010 and have developed their craft, producing hit singles such as Heartbreaker and their new EP, Part One.

“We grew up on a cattle station in North Queensland,” she said.

“Country music is what we’re about, and we’ve been living in Nashville and spent the last year creating this sound.”

Katelyn said the trio are excited about the opportunity to perform on the Deni Ute Muster main stage.

“It is our first ever time playing at a festival. “We’re so excited to be on the main stage.”

“Honestly, first to be playing with some of the biggest artists in the US including the Zac Brown Band, Jackson Dean and the Wolfe Brothers, as well as some of the Aussie legends, Kasey Chambers, Troy Cassar-Daley and John Williamson. To get to be on that bill is such an honour and a privilege.

“I don’t know what to expect. We’ve been asking our Aussie friends what the weekend’s going to be like.

“We do know it’ll be a huge event, all the utes and, of course, a lot of country music.

“We’ve been releasing new music, so we’ll be performing some of our newer music as well as teasing some brand new music in our set.”

“We’ve been doing a lot, and we’re excited to show that at the Ute Muster.”

The band has been on the rise since their appearance on The Voice Australia.

Their sneak leaked rendition of Tracey Chapman’s Fast Car in 2018 gained more than one million views in days, which caught the attention of the show’s global coaches Kelly Rowland, Delta Goodrem, Boy George and Joe Jonas.

They joined Jonas’ team, and made it to the top 16.

Katelyn said they’ve come a long way since then.

“It feels like just yesterday, but it also feels like 20 years ago. As a result (of being on the show), we moved to Nashville in 2021 and were opening for the Jonas Brothers, which was really cool.

“We also got involved with a global publishing company deal with Warner Chappell Music Nashville.

“We got to record with Dann Huff, who has worked with Keith Urban, and Nathan Chapman, who has worked with Taylor Swift. Both are really amazing.”

Even though the group has had a meteoric rise in the last few years, the draw of Australia as home has been calling the trio.

“It’s hard being so far away from home. We’re going back and forth now, and we’ve started to play some concerts, so we get the best of both worlds.”

Performing at the Deni Ute Muster, the trio get to show what country music means to them, Katelyn said.

“No doubt it is important. I feel like country music is home.

“We’ve always been surrounded by it.

“Growing up, Mum and Dad brought us up on the records of the likes of Alan Jackson, Ronnie Milsap, listening in the living room to Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.

“Now to get to experience that feeling of the crowd singing our own words back to us; it is pretty incredible and so much fun for us.

“I think country music is one big family.”

The siblings return home to Australia in just a few weeks, with their appearance at Deniliquin expected to be part of a larger Aussie tour.