Nerida’s performances are moving, relatable and often joyfully unexpected. Leaving the city at 17 for life in small regional communities, she has gathered decades of richly varied musical experience, including touring the UK and outback NSW.  Nerida lives with insight, authenticity and a lot of heart – so her songs can take you to quiet moments, dusty back roads and wide-open skies.  She invites her listeners into laughter, singing and connection, writing with a depth that makes space for your own story. 

In 2025, she released her sixth album with a beautifully crafted Companion book of lyrics, poetry, photos and reflections.

Nerida left her hometown of Sydney as soon as she could, for the open skies and space of western NSW, a stint in country Victoria, finally stopping in Canowindra, central west NSW. Nerida’s diverse life experiences, along with her own spiritual journeying through loss & healing, love and family, have proved to be a rich palette from which to draw inspiration.

After many fairly isolated years, due to her life in a small country town bringing up three children, Nerida greatly enjoyed the chance to find a much larger audience via zoom & Youtube since 2020; particularly in the UK, where she toured in 2023.  For contrast, she toured outback NSW in 2024. In 2021, Nerida was part of an Arts Outwest project of musos & artists responding to Covid; she was also part of Arts Outwest’s Music Recovery program across the region. In 2021, her 5th album, Woven, was released, a collection of Australian story songs in the folk genre, launched in several Australian locations, as well as in Scotland via Youtube. Her 6th album, In the Midst of the Dark, produced by Paul Colman, released in April 2025.  This album reflects more of the inner searching, spiritual side of Nerida’s repertoire; and the collaboration with her Nashville-based producer-cousin gives it a wider musical range of styles as well. Nerida is compiling a companion book of lyrics, poetry, reflections, images and notes on the experience of holding hope and faith together with trauma and loss, A prolific songwriter, Nerida has also released many additional songs via her self-made films on Youtube.  

Nerida has a genuine commitment to supporting rural wellbeing through music: teaching music and drama to kids, running folk clubs and open mics, and facilitating pop up community singing groups.  Her songs and performances reflect her love of small country town life; some years ago she performed her song Canowindra at the town’s annual Balloon Glow with a 10 000-strong crowd, filmed by the ABC’s Back Roads program.  She has loved teaching music at a little school in Eugowra for several years, involved in flood recovery there, including co-writing a song with her students, facilitating a book of their stories & art, and running pop-up choirs for adults.