DAKOTA EAST IS 'MOVING ON' & RELEASING HER NEW SINGLE
- Tim Holland
- Feb 8, 2024
- 2 min read
Following her appearance as a 2024 Starmaker finalist at the recent Tamworth Country Music Festival, emerging Melbourne based artist Dakota East releases her new single, ‘Moving On.’
‘Moving On’ depicts the transformative journey of revival and empowerment that comes after a turbulent break up.
Drawing on sounds inspired by The Preatures, Morgan Wallen and Mackenzie Porter, ‘Moving On’ portrays the story of a young woman leaving behind the only life she had ever known and shedding unwanted memories, by road tripping across the country and embracing new experiences.
“I wanted to capture a feeling that most of us know, when you have given so much to something but it all falls apart and you feel like it's an impossible task to start over,” says Dakota East.
“Yet as time unfolds there is always the promise of moving on and better days".
While being a fully-fledged Aussie based full time in Melbourne, Dakota East actually grew up in a log cabin on a small island in the middle of a lake in Ontario Canada.
Her childhood was very much influenced by music from the likes of folk singers Neil Young, James Taylorand John Denver along with B B King and Bonnie Raitt.
“The music married with the scenery so well and was the perfect soundtrack to my childhood,” says Dakota East.
Prior to being a Starmaker finalist in January, Dakota East had already played shows at some of Victoria’s most loved music venues while opening for the likes of Jon Stevens, Travis Collins and Wendy Matthews, plus Jo Camilleri and The Black Sorrows.
Her debut independent commercial release ‘Runaway’ in 2021 scored over 300,000 streams, while also being a Top 20 single on the Countrytown official national country radio chart.
She followed that with ‘Feel It’ in early 2023, which also made it into the Top 30 at Australian country radio.
In summing up her purpose musically, Dakota East describes her sound as “Coastal Country.”
“The essence of pure, raw and unrefined musical emotion has always stayed strong within me and is what I try to evoke as an artist,” Dakota says.
