Meet the WAMMERS - Felicity Haigh
Country music, classically speaking.
Born in rural Tamworth NSW Felicity Haigh will always be a country girl.
At the tender age of 11, Felicity decided solo music performance was not her calling. However as a member of her sisterhood quartet, Felicity has been able to keep a foot in the performance door, playing initially violin then viola.
Between a father who could, in her words, “play the spoons very well” and a mother with an intrinsic love of music, Felicity spent her youth travelling between music lessons, the family farm and boarding school. After high school Felicity begrudgingly moved to the “big smoke” – Canberra.
She brought with her her sisterly love of organisation and all things artful. She has combined these talents in a triple major in Accounting, Art History and Musicology at the Australian National University.
Her reason for attending the WAM program at the National Music Camp is clear. For Felicity, musicology is an academic pursuit without many “hands on” experiences; the two weeks of intensive WAM experience is a chance to broaden her skills base as a musicologist happy to get her hands dirty.
Now in her fourth year of study and nearing graduation, the future for Felicity is on the distant sun burnt horizon. However, she does know it will be in or “at least close to the country”. For Felicity, whether her career is in managing viable arts sponsorship models for big industry or engaging country communities in classical art forms via good business, the country will always be calling.
Written by Lachlan Snow