17-year-old Jessica Eriksson from Strathdickie turned more than a few heads at the WIntermoon singer/songwriter contest last weekend.
Jessica’s song “An unwritten story” was written in the Whitsundays and performed at the festival to an appreciative audience.
“The song is about growing up; about not knowing where I’ll be in life,” Jessica said.
Jessica described her festival performance as “exhilarating”.
“It’s good to play in front of people,” she said.
Jessica made it through to the final heat of the competition, which saw her performing live on the main stage of Wintermoon on Sunday.
Proud mum Wendy Eriksson was watching her daughter from the front row and videoing the momentous event.
“It’s hard to hold a camera straight when you’ve got tears streaming down your face,” she said.
Also flying the Whitsundays flag were Valerie and Leola Adams, whose joint clothing enterprise is part of the ‘Made in the Whitsundays’ campaign.
“Our clothing is all individually cut and hand dyed by ourselves. It’s sewn locally and we use water-saving methods,” Valerie said.
The mother and daughter team said this was their first time trading at the festival and they had been fairly well received.
“Morally people are more aware theses days and do want to support locals and local manufacturing,” Valerie said.
“We find at festivals like this people are very like-minded.”
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