Dave Steel

DAVE STEEL BRIEF BIO 2025

             Dave Steel is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer with an extensive history in the roots music scene in Australia. He was a founding member of Weddings Parties Anything and contributed songs and instrumental skills to their first two albums.

          He has made nine solo albums, received several ARIA nominations and has worked as a sideman and session musician with many of Australia’s finest performers, including Archie Roach, for whom he worked for seven years as an instrumentalist, and Rose Bygrave and Marcia Howard, amongst many others.

Dave has extensive studio experience as an artist, a session instrumentalist, and as a producer/engineer. He has toured extensively in Australia, North America, Europe and Asia.

          For the past twenty years he has been instrumentalist and co-producer for Tiffany Eckhardt, and continues to work as a solo act, on the festival circuit and in the folk /roots scene, as well as recording and mixing in his home studio for various artists. Dave has recently completed a rewarding four year stint as a tutor in the songwriting stream of the degree course at UTAS, and he has relocated to Victoria, where he is performing with The Kitchen Table Tour (Bill Jackson, Frank Jones, Dave Steel) and with Heart Songs (Rose Bygrave, Wayne Jury, Dave Steel) as well as solo shows and some studio work

           Dave’s new album is called Wooden Music. It was made in the Huon Valley in Lutruwita (Tasmania) with Ross Smithard playing fiddle and Louis Gill playing double bass. Live in the studio with minimal overdubs, Wooden Music is a raw collection of new material from a veteran of the Australian music scene.

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