Sarah has become the Patron of a great looking enterprise called Biddy Bags. Check out the website for more information.

The upcoming Womadelaide festival this weekend is set to be broadcast on Adelaide radio as well as a Brisbane radio station, so if you're not attending the festival, you should be able to catch Sarah's performance. For more information see http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au/

Sarah has been added to the line up for the Blue Mountains Festival of Folk being held in Katoomba. According to the website www.bmff.org.au, Sarah is to play on the Saturday.

For all the art lovers out there, there is a portrait of Sarah currently being featured as a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2008 exhibition.

Sarah has once again had a couple of songs nominated for Triple J's Hottest 100. You can head over to the site and vote for one or both of the songs, which are Sarah's cover of "Bye Bye Pride" and "Planet New Year".

We've heard that Sarah is going to be performing at the New Years Eve show in Sydney. It seems that she is due to perform as part of the pre-midnight show.

Sarah has appeared on the line-up for the WomAdelaide festival next year. If you want more information on the event, you can visit the website http://www.womadelaide.com.au

Dew Process have contacted me to let me know that Sarah's What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have has been released as another deluxe edition available as a download for iTunes. This Deluxe edition includes 7 bonus tracks from Sarah's recent At The Playroom performance. Two of the tracks are previously unheard. You can download the tracks from here

More awards for Sarah. as it seems that in a recent poll by "Australian Musician" magazine, Sarah has been voted Australia's Most Respected Artist. Thanks to Lina for sending in this info.

More news of festivals today as it's been announced Sarah is to perform at the Peats Ridge Festival. For more information see their website

Sarah is going to be playing two of the days of the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland this year. You can visit their website for more information

Congratulations go to Sarah and her band for winning the ARIA award for best Pop! A well deserved win in my opinion. Visit the forum to add your own congratulations to the list.

There is a really good interview from Filter TV available to view. It has a nice mix of interviewing Sarah and Sarah performing some of her songs on location in The Living Room, New York.

You can listen to Sarah's recent guest appearance on Triple J from Wednesday this week. She talks about her recent visit to the US.

I've received this information from Dew Process:

Since the release of her sophomore album, What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have, Sarah Blasko has cemented her position as one of Australia ’s top artists, selling over 100,000 albums and earning her a raft of critical acclaim and a J Award and AMP Award nomination. The plaudits keep coming with Blasko being nominated for four ARIA Awards in 2007 including Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Cover Art and Engineer of the Year for Paul McKercher.

To celebrate, Dew Process is releasing the What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have Deluxe Edition this Saturday, complete with a bonus live DVD featuring all 8 film clips and exclusive interviews with Sarah.

What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have debuted at No. 7 on the ARIA charts and has earned critical acclaim across the nation.

After a stint in the USA completing a residency at New York club The Living Room, Blasko returns to Australia to kick off her biggest headline tour yet on October 9th, taking in theatre venues across the country. Sarah has been also been confirmed for the first announce of both Homebake and the Big Day Out 2008.

You can catch Blasko performing this gem on Sunrise and The Sideshow in early October.

Don't forget, a selection of live tracks from Sarah's recent winter Playroom Session for Channel V and Nova are now available as a special live EP on iTunes.

Sarah has once again been nominated for an ARIA award. She's nominated in two categories this year. These are:
Best Pop Release for What The Sea Wants The Sea Will Have
and
Best Female Artist
We wish Sarah all the best of luck

It looks like the re-release of What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have is due to be released on the 6th Oct. It's got a re-coloured cover and includes a bonus DVD which contains the videos to the songles and also a commentary from Sarah. JB Hi-Fi are currently taking pre-orders for it.

Well with Sarah now over in the US, it looks like she's lined up some shows over there too.

If you're anywhere near New York in the next few weeks, you should be able to catch her supporting AJ Croce at the Living Room New York.

In more US related news the album What The Sea Wants The Sea Will Have now has a US release date of 11th September.

The first showing to my knowledge of the new Amazing Things viseo clip is to be played between 3-3:30am this Saturday morning on Rage.