Gary Luck

Australian musician and singer-songwriter, based in Canberra, ACT. Gary is on the Board of Directors of the Australian Songwriters Association, a writer/member of APRA/AMCOS, and holds a PPCA licence. He is also Managing Director of Backtrack Management Gary has been playing guitar and writing songs ever since hearing the famous Canadian folk song, ‘Four Strong Winds’ outside his old home town of Melbourne in the early 60s. He has appeared on Melbourne television and has written a short play, with music, featuring incidents in the life and times of Gordon Lightfoot which led to two of Lightfoot’s biggest hits. Gary met Gordon Lightfoot after a show at the Sun Theatre in Anaheim, California and spent half an hour talking him into one more tour of Australia. Sadly when the tour could not go ahead due to Lightfoot’s ill health Gary decided that the next best thing was to put together a tribute show in honour of the man and his music and take it to Australian audiences. And so Gary formed The Lightfeet Band and (almost twenty years later) presented and performed ‘Sundown-The Gordon Lightfoot Story’. Gary has been playing Lightfoot songs for over forty years as a solo artist or in various cover bands in and around Canberra (such as Southern Exposure and No Fixed Address) along with a few of his own originals. He has toured with Ross Ryan (I Am Pegasus) and several artists from the United States. Gary has also played in various parts of South East Asia where he translated Ralph McTell’s biggest hit “The Streets of London” into Indonesian, in the United States and has performed his own single ‘Blood On the Frangipani’, a song about the bombing of Darwin on national radio, live at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne and in the Northern Territory Parliament House during the annual commemorations of the bombing in Darwin on the 19th February each year. When not touring he is currently working on his own album entitled ‘Imaginary Postcards - The Old Tobacco Tin.’ Gary is also an actor, voice actor, writer and director with over forty years experience in the entertainment industry.