Glenn Cardier - biography
'...Glenn Cardier has been writing and performing moving, insightful, powerful and important songs for more than thirty years. His intriguing evolution has given us something like a cross between John Prine and John Lee H [+]Glenn Cardier - biography
'...Glenn Cardier has been writing and performing moving, insightful, powerful and important songs for more than thirty years. His intriguing evolution has given us something like a cross between John Prine and John Lee Hooker. With captivating presence, a commanding vocal style and a gloriously perverse point of view that produces songs which take firm hold and lingerlong, he comes dangerously close to being certified as a national treasure.' (Glenn A Baker, author/rock historian)
"You know something special is about to happen when the front row of the audience is overflowing with the headline musicians at the festival. So it was at Glenn Cardier's final concert at Chewton this year.
Glenn Cardier is somehow more than a songwriter, and an entertainer. rather, his songs are four minute pieces of theatre which paint a vivid, living scene in your mind. And there is something wicked about him too, which audiences find seductive. Is it that Scorpio thing? "
Andrew Pattison, music producer
"We'd had such a good time at the festival that Rusty and I turned around after our gig in Melbourne and drove straight back to Chewton, just in time to hear for the second time the fantastic Glenn Cardier from Sydney who made our jaws drop with his mad mix of black humour, tenderness and crafty songwriting that had every singer songwriter in the room transfixed in admiration and jealousy ! How did he do that ? "
Kavisha Mazzella, musician
' he's picked up where he left off years ago. On stage he is witty, articulate and musically inventive, effortlessly moving from bollocking barrelhouse to confessional ballads. He left them begging for more.'
(Al Ward Co-Director
Blue Mountains Festival of Folk, Roots and Blues)
Now in his fifties, Glenn Cardier makes the wry observation that 'not giving any performances for 20 years tends to stall your career in show business'. In 1999, Cardier dragged his battle-scarred '56 Martin acoustic out from under the bed. 'I found it under there along with an old slipper and my self-esteem'. He gave it a strum. The guitar had been his constant companion as he performed around Australia and Europe in the 1970's. He'd play it gentle and hard, sweat all over it, beat on it, scratching away at it's
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