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Elizabeth Carthew grew up in Adelaide discovering her passion for music at the age of 5 when she began playing piano. Trumpet lessons followed and upon leaving school Elizabeth completed a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz trumpet performance, which led to a fulltime trumpet career where she performed with James Morrison and Don Burrows, touring America and performing at the Montereaux Jazz Festival, and Australian Jazz festivals incuding Manly, Darling Harbour, Thredbo, the Brisbane's River Festival. During this time Elizabeth was also a regular feature vocalist and trumpet soloist with John Morrison's Swing City, performing in the Olympic Opening Ceremony 2000 and for the Duke of Edinburgh. In 2003 Elizabeth began writing songs and released her first solo album which produced a Top Five placing in the National songwriting contest for 2006 and established her as a unique songwriter drawing from her jazz roots.'Sweeter the Fire' is the name of her self penned soon to be released new