Red Chair is an independent Queensland performing arts company based on Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi country in the Sunshine Coast region. Our company’s work and artistic practice is based on our vision for an independent arts community that is sustainable, valued, and connected.

Fred Smith

Key selling points:

1. Established fanbase - Fred Smith is loved by audiences around the country through his appearances on radio, Australian Story documentary, and tours of Dust of Uruzgan and Sparrows of Kabul. Audiences who loved Fred’s previous shows will want to see a more personal side of the artist. Marketing will be supported by Fred's 12000-name email list and Facebook pages.

2. Relatable - this show is highly relatable. Most people live in homes and have relationships. Many have raised or are raising children. This, combined with humour, warmth and beautiful songs makes this show an easy sell.

Collateral - producing a show reel for Domesticity which will draw on footage of a (sold out) concert in Canberra on 14 Feb 2025. This process will also yield a thirty second promo reel and music videos for three of the songs. All of these, along with MPs of songs, will easily be deployable as both files and URL links as well as in this google drive which includes images, press releases, MP3s of songs.

Artist availability for interviewsRaw artwork for handbills & posters with images for venue’s own useHigh resolution proofs for artwork for press ads

Workshop: Songwriting – How To Do It
Fred Smith lays out a basic songwriting toolkit and offers a crash course in how to write a song. Australia’s master songwriter will take workshop participants through a user-friendly process for capturing those initial sparks of inspiration, fleshing them out, and shaping them into songs that don’t suck. Bring an instrument if you play one, or just a pen and a couple of pieces of paper. This could get messy.

“Fred Smith is an exceptional songwriter...one of our finest lyricists...he shows true mastery of crafting melodies and marrying them to the words without recourse to a shotgun...” SMH.