Alita Fahey

Alita Fahey is an Australian former TV actress and reporter who appeared on Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network 10),^[1] The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (Nine network)^[2] and the children's show Antenna^[3] (ABC). She also had roles on The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters and The Boy in the Bush (ABC).^[4] Fahey appeared in many Australian films and commercials, has sung professionally for many years both in Australia and overseas, and is an accomplished singer/songwriter. She formed her own production company which specialised in children's musical entertainment and theatre in education shows for schools. She is an avid songwriter, director and musician. Her re-release of her single of the classic ballad Banks of the Ohio has been played on radio stations around the country.^[5]

Awards

Fahey has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards^[6] some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3',^[7] and Colin MacKenzie.

Fahey received the TSA Songwriters Awards for Best Children’s Song in 2013 (I Should Have Listened), 2012 (Tony's Farm),^[8] and was nominated in the same category in 2010 (Where The Eagles Fly).^[9] She was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Songs for Children in 2011 (Tony's Farm)^[10] and for Boy from Cooroy (with Colin Mackenzie) in 2014.^[11] She also was a runnerup in the USA Songapalooza songwriting competition 2012 for her song Vodka and Pen which she co-wrote with Colin MacKenzie.

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