Artist:Larissa McKay

Larissa McKay is a self-starting musician. At the age of 15 she began playing the family piano by ear, taught herself chords and wrote her first song. A few years later she was asked to join the ranks of a jazz/funk band, The Groove Syndicate. The band played at The Manly International Jazz Festival among other events and recorded an EP called Up Late. After fronting this seven piece ensemble, Larissa thought she could give her own songs a little life and began performing them around Sydney with drummer, Steve de Wilde. The pair won recording time and with the help of bassist, Andy Gray, they recorded larissa & the wild grey’s first EP, Soldier, in 2007. Larissa began booking gigs for the band around Sydney, on both sides of the harbour, including The Hopetoun, The Excelsior, The Vanguard, The Supper Club, Manly Boatshed, residences at Newport Arms Hotel and The Novotel Hotel in Manly, and the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room. Along the way guitar shreader, Pete Covington, joined ...