Sara Storer, Shane Howard and Shane Nicholson will share a stage at Memo Music Hall for a one-off collaboration.
The show, titled For the Sake of the Song, brings together three artists whose combined credentials span decades of Australian songwriting. Between them, the trio holds multiple ARIA Awards, dozens of Golden Guitar Awards and a body of work that stretches from wheat farms in the Mallee to concert halls across the country.
Howard’s career stretches back more than four decades. The singer-songwriter behind Solid Rock, Sacred Ground has released 14 solo albums and received an honorary doctorate from Deakin University in 2023. His most recognised song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection in 2018, placing it alongside the recordings the NFSA considers essential to the country’s cultural history. He has spent much of his career working alongside Indigenous musicians and advocating for First Nations rights through his music.
For the Sake of the Song
- 14 May
- Memo Music Hall
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Storer brings 22 Golden Guitar Awards and an ARIA Award for Best Country Album to the collaboration. The singer-songwriter, who grew up on a wheat farm in country Victoria before working as a teacher in the Northern Territory, released her eighth studio album Worth Your Love in 2025. Her music draws heavily on rural life and the Australian landscape, and she has been a fixture of the country music scene since her debut album Chasing Buffalo landed in 2001.
Nicholson rounds out the trio with three ARIA Awards and 18 Golden Guitar Awards across a career spanning 11 albums. He has twice been named Producer of the Year at the Country Music Awards of Australia and has built a reputation as both a performer and a sought-after studio collaborator. His most recent album Living in Colour arrived in 2021.
Memo Music Hall, the historic St Kilda venue that first opened in 1924 as a dance hall for returned soldiers, plays host to the event on 14 May. Doors open at 7pm with the show kicking off at 8pm. Tickets are priced from $75 plus booking fee online, with door sales (if available) starting at $80 plus booking fee. The show is already selling fast.
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