About Clare
A songwriter from an early age, Clare Bowditch went public with her passions and talent in 1998, upon meeting John Hedigan, with whom she formed the band Red Raku, which released an EP. Upon that band’s folding, she started the Feeding Set with collaborators Libby Chow and Warren Bloomer.
Together, this act would release the albums Autumn Bone and What Was Left, the second of which was released on EMI. In 2007, Bowditch — along with a slightly retooled Feeding Set released her third full-length, The Moon Looked On.
Clare Bowditch is a musician, author, former broadcaster, and one of Australia’s most highly-booked professional speakers and M.C.’s
Clare’s passion and reputation as a professional speaker may be partly due to the good fortune that during her youth, while studying at Art School, Clare was fortunate to be trained and mentored by both Leadership Expert Fabian Dattner (for whom she worked as an assistant), and folk singer and group-facilitator Fay White (with whom she completed the Community Singing Leadership Training, thanks to Vic Health, who understood even back then the value of singing for our social, medical and mental health). Later, in 2008, whilst researching her best-selling album ‘The Winter I Chose Happiness’, Clare also agreed to challenge her cynicism and undertake training as a ‘Life Coach’ (turns out, she bloody loved it).
These days, Clare is as confident leading intimate single-day online workshops with a dozen executives as she is leading an audience of 12,000 at the M.C.G. in a ‘Mass sing-along’ (she knows how to harness our collective terror of group singing and turn it into a skill-building exercise the likes of which you may never have seen before).
In her work as a host, broadcaster and MC, Clare has interviewed and facilitated hundreds of events and conversations with the likes of authors Jeanette Winterson and Zoe Foster-Blake, singers Linda Rondstadt and Jackson Browne, both local and federal politicians (including former PM’s Julia Gillard and Malcolm Turnball – not at the same time), famous sportspeople, astrophysicists, mental health experts, and remarkable people who may not have ‘famous names’ but who have equally fascinating stories to share.
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