After releasing her debut album with ABC Classics, award winning songwriter and guitarist Alesa Lajana sold her classical guitar, got rid of anything that didn’t fit into her car, bought a banjo, and hit the road in search of the Australian history that our schools forgot to teach us. This was the birth of the Hidden History Album Project, a song writing endeavour established for the creative exploration of post contact Australian history through music.

Three years down the road and Alesa is embarking on her final preview tour before she enters the recording studio. Coupled with Alesa’s wild ‘Wake in Fright’ tales collected during her three years travelling the dusty highways of Australia, her songs capture the spirit and imagery of our vast land, delving deep into the gritty, heartfelt, devastating, hopeful and sometimes hilarious realities of life on the frontier, the very violent collision of two worlds, and how that has shaped our nation today.