Sing along when Stone to the Ground premieres at Rockhampton’s Women in Voice

Listen: Yeppoon singer-songwriter launches title track the day before she performs it at the Pilbeam... and you’re invited to sing along

Kate Leahy releases her single Stone to the Ground

Yeppoon singer-songwriter Kate Leahy released the first single off her new album at midnight on Thursday, and Morning Bulletin readers can be among the lucky first listeners.

The title track to her Stone to the Ground album was released on YouTube overnight.

The gorgeous ballad, which was written for her first daughter – now six years old – will form part of Leahy’s set during Rockhampton’s inaugural Women in Voice show this Saturday.

And she would love to turn it into a bit of a singalong.

If you’re going to Women in Voice, why not commit the chorus to memory and join in?

It goes like this:

Cause I love you

It’s so simple, I love you

I’m a stone to the ground, falling for you.

Kate Leahy releases her single Stone to the Ground

Country music’s proverbial cup runneth over in Rockhampton this week; on Tuesday, a sold-out audience thrilled to Paul Kelly and his starstruck support act, Fanny Lumsden.

Kate Leahy puts Paul Kelly up there on her bucket list too, for his captivating storytelling which is all about belonging to a place.

“I think everyone’s looking for a place, whether it’s real or imagined, where you feel completely at peace and renewed,” she said.

“Before I was a mother, I was always moving around, looking for whatever would fix whatever was broken.

“I call it familial restlessness; my family moved house every year from about the time I was eight.”

The music video shares snippets of Leahy’s journey through Europe on her way back home to Yeppoon, where she now raises two daughters.

She’s excited to share her new material with the Women in Voice audience, but not nervous.

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“Bringing a new song into the world after such a long gestation is like giving birth to any new family member,” she said.

“You hope other people like it but, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter.

“You love it unconditionally and that’s the only thing that counts.”