TOM CURTAIN

Tom Curtain is an entertainer, musician, horseman, businessman, entrepreneur and family-man living and working in outback Australia.

Tom discovered his passion for song-writing while working in the stock-camp of Mt Sanford Station, 500kms south of Katherine, NT. What started as some fun singing around the campfire, lead to the release of his first award-winning album ‘Smack Bang’ in 2004. Following this, he split his time touring with some of Australia’s biggest country music names including Sara Storer, The Sunny Cowgirls, Pete Denahy and The Davidson Brothers, and training horses throughout the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Life on the road however was taking its toll so he stepped away from the music to concentrate on his horse-training business and young family. He thought if he setup his horse-training business in Katherine, NT, then the stations would send horses to him, rather than moving from station to station. The gamble of relocating his family paid-off, business was booming. That was until the 2011 Live Beef Export Ban. Overnight budgets were cut on stations which meant Tom was out of work.

This led to the launch of Katherine Outback Experience (KOE) in 2013, a tourist venture on his property that celebrates life on the land through real horse-starting and working dog demonstrations entwined with live music and humorous bush tales. KOE operates in Katherine, NT from April to October. For the remaining five to six months of the year, the team tour Australia with the horses, dogs and music.

After a decade away from the music industry, in November 2017, Tom released his third album Territory Time which debuted at No. 1 on the Australian iTunes Country Music Chart. Never Never Land, a duet with Luke O'Shea, went on to win two Golden Guitars at the 2018 Tamworth Country Music Awards for CMC Video Clip of the Year and Toyota Heritage Song of the Year.

Tom also won the prestigious Australian Independent Artist of the Year at the 2018 Southern Stars Australian Independent Country Music Awards in Mildura, together with Album of the Year, Single of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year.

In 2019 Tom released his fourth album, We're Still Here which had resounding success in the Charts with the title track, In the West and She Gave Us the Song.

KOE was awarded Gold for Best Tourist Attraction at the 2021 Qantas Australia Tourist Awards and 2021 Best Tourist Attraction and Chairman's Award for Tourism Excellence at the Brolga Northern Territory Tourism Awards.

In 2022, Tom released his latest album, Nothin's Gonna Stop Us, including singles Why We Live Out Here, a co-write with Matt Scullion and Garth Porter, and When The Rain Comes Down, featuring Robyn Martin of The New Graces.

All hard copies of Tom Curtain's albums are available to purchase through our online shop. Territory Time, We're Still Here and Nothin's Gonna Stop Us are available on digital platforms.