Campbell Fry – singer songwriter performer

Heavily influenced by James Taylor, John Lennon, The Beatles and a wide range of singer songwriters from the 60s through to current day, Australian songwriter Campbell Fry has melded the elements of many incredible songcrafts people to create his own style of writing and playing. Often gentle picking mixed with funk chords and bluesy riffs his songs can be tender, soulful, and even aggressive at times.

Continually building an exciting discography on Spotify and many other commercial streaming platforms, writing songs and recording original music is one of Campbell’s life-long passions.

Recently, in October 2024 Campbell was featured on 105.3 NEW FM’s Homegrown series with Rox where Campbell discussed his music on air and performed live, including his song “Love the Speed”.

Playing regular return gigs at venues and private functions throughout the Hunter Valley from Newcastle to Taree, Maitland, Pokolbin, Wollombi, Nelson Bay, Singleton and more.
Campbell’s music sets can be littered with originals and reinterpreted covers in an original and tasteful style.

Campbell loves to perform live and has a natural ability to connect with his audiences.  

“Campbell delivered a diverse setlist that included a mix of timeless classics and modern hits. What impressed me the most was the Campbell’s ability to connect with the audience and interacted with the guests. The professionalism displayed by Campbell was commendable.” 

“Campbell is a warm, genuine and generous entertainer. He went out of his way to ensure we all had a wonderful evening. Everyone commented on how good Campbell sang and played and interacted with the room. They all enjoyed the playlist and the ambiance of listening to live music. We weren’t a big group of dancers but Campbell did manage to get us all up on the dance floor”

Campbell has been recording and is excited to complete and release an album of new songs over the first half of 2025, starting with the first single, “Cigarettes and Coffee” in November, 2024.

A regional tour of New South Wales is being mapped out for 2025. And Campbell can’t wait to share his music with the communities of New South Wales!

      Performing in bands for many years, Campbell is now playing mainly solo though often plays with a loop pedal providing a fuller backing sound - with all loops and backing played in and recorded by Campbell.

Campbell is established in the Hunter Valley music scene and most recently has performed and collaborated many times with esteemed singer songwriter Sandy Louise and Original Cyn amongst other local artists.

Aged 10, one morning an hour before school started, Campbell’s good friend Grant had mentioned Campbell should come along with him to school band practice as they needed a drummer.

“Walking into that classroom with sun streaming in through the large old windows and seeing the other students sitting together so early and clearly enjoying band practice. It was a life changing moment. The room was warm from the morning sun and felt so calm; and Mr Whickham who was normally a stern teacher was very welcoming and asked me to sit with Rodney the main drummer. It was a great feeling just being there with others. Very grateful to everyone for that day.”

Flash forward to today and it was clearly an important day and has help lead to many years of joy in music for Campbell – sharing the love of playing with playing in bands, writing great songs and recording songs for release. 

A regional tour is being mapped out for 2025. And Campbell can’t wait to share his music with the communities of New South Wales!

      Campbell’s original material covers a wide range of areas such as Love and self esteem (Battered and Bruised), Life satisfaction (Happy Man), Interpreting life’s puzzle (Jigsaw), Spirituality vs the Church (Cigarettes and Coffee)

Over the years Campbell’s music has drawn interest in many areas; his original music band winning the Newcastle Battle of the Bands, being musical director on many productions with schools and University Revues. 

A recent honour and privilege has been to be selected as feature artist of June 2022 with the “Songwriter’s Sing Songwriting Group” – with a performance at Gallipoli Legion Club, Hamilton, and in August 2022 with the “Wax Lyrical Songwriting Group” – performance at Carrington Bowling Club. Campbell’s original release, “Deliverance” is currently part of JJJ’s Unearthed Series (see below).

The renewed or “reborn” passion for performing has opened up Campbell’s mind even more for creation of new songs and compositions. He is currently working on new original material which he is excited to share soon both live and online.