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 was nominated for the best children's song in the 2010 Tamworth Songwriters Association awards.^[6] She has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards^[7] some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3',^[8] and Colin MacKenzie.

Fahey received the TSA Songwriters Awards 2012 for Best Children’s Song,^[9] and was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Best Australian Song in 2011^[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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