Judy Small was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. She moved to Sydney in 1972, studying psychology and began her career as a singer and songwriter in the late 1970s, inspired by the folk boom of the 1960s and describing her influences as such folk singers as Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez and The Seekers. After a successful performance at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in 1982 she became a full-time singer-songwriter and recorded her first album 'A Natural Selection'.
Over the next the 16 years, she regularly toured in the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand and released a number of albums. In 1990, she received the "Mo" Award for Australian Folk Performer of the Year and in 1997 was the Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the Year. She was also invited to Beijing for the United Nations Women's Conference NGO Forum - UN in 1995, where she sang to thousands of women from all over the world.
People had been asking for some years for Judy Small to release an album recorded live, so they could hear her introductions and stories of her songs, which have become much a part of the show, as her actual concert performance, so a concert was recorded called 'Live at the Artery' in her home town of Melbourne and subsequently was released as a double CD Collection set in 2006, spanning her 35-plus years of music. Judy Small retired from full-time performance in 1998.
Judy has nowcretired from her position as a Federal Court judge & is performing again, you can find her at *Judy Small Sings* Fb page
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