Liz Stringer is one of Australia’s most admired and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. With a career spanning six studio albums and a slew of honours including Port Fairy Folk Festival's 2023 Artist of the Year and the Woodford Folk Festival 'Emerging Legend of Australian Song' in 2020, Stringer is a venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs earning her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era. In Summer 2023, Stringer worked with Grammy nominated/Ivor Novello Award winning producer/engineer Beni Giles (Lianne La Havas,) at Iguana Studios in Brixton, London, to complete her most accomplished offering yet. Due for an early 2025 release, The Second High sees Stringer branch into a wider range of her musical influences, using jazz, soul and funk as a canvas on which to squarely centre songs which draw on themes of self-actualisation, social inequity and the dogged pursuit of truth and authenticity. Liz Stringer’s sixth studio album, First Time Really Feeling, was recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company, produced and engineered by Chris Stringer (Timber Timbre). Released in April 2021 through Courtney Barnett's Milk! Records, the album debuted at #14 on the ARIA Charts in Australia, and earned the 2022 AIR Award for Best Blues and Roots Album and a place on the shortlist for APRA's Song of the Year 2022 (Dangerous).