When Buckley sisters Sarah and Molly rock up onto the stage tomorrow for Carols the Heart, it will be a coming home for them. 

The sisters grew up here and the Christmas concert will be their first live performance in their home town after touring Australia and the United States for ten years.

“We’re looking forward to performing and bringing life back to Lismore,” Molly said. “It will be fun and we’ll get to see old friends.”

Not new to singing Christmas carols, the sisters grew up in a musical family and used to perform a Rockabilly Christmas show in the family band with their dad on drums. 

“We love carols and spicing up songs with a bit of 1940s glamour mixed with a rockabilly feel,” Sarah said.

“We just put our first Christmas single ‘Boogie Woogie Santa Claus’ and it was recorded with a 1940s arrangement - half in Nashville with the brass section there and half here at home.

“We’ll be playing it tomorrow and make sure everyone gets up dancing and singing.

“We want to make sure people have a great night out and feel good,” Molly said.

“We all haven’t been able to dance and sing for ages, so let’s make the most out of it and get back into it.”

Despite the Covid lockdown, the girls haven’t stopped playing music – filling their time with writing songs, performing online concerts from home – and recording their first album ‘Daydream’.

“It was pretty wild when Covid started in 2020,” Sarah said. “Our home concerts streamed round the world in many countries and we did a TV live stream event for the release of our debut album.

“We’ve been busy - everything moving by, but not physically going anywhere.

“Now, we are grateful to able to do that bring our mix of country, and indie rock music to everyone around. 

“It’s great to be back on live shows now and start off with a home show.”

You can see them perform at the 2021 Shopbaby's Carols in the Heart at Riverside Park between 5pm and 8pm this Saturday.