Tracee Hutchison

Who is Tracee Hutchison?

Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV and radio broadcaster.

She produced and presented a series on Australian music in the 1980s for JJJ in 1990 – featuring interviews with Australian musicians including Nick Cave, Chrissy Amphlett, David McComb, Paul Kelly and Jimmy Barnes – which became her first book ‘Your Name's on the Door – 10 Years of Australian Music’.

Ms Hutchison was talent producer and scriptwriter for Series 2 and 3 of RocKwiz and also the series producer of nomad, the program that discovered silverchair in a national demo competition in 1994.

She wrote a weekly Opinion column for the Saturday Age from 2005–2009 and conceived and edited two fund-raising cookbooks for the Mirabel Foundation: Rock Chefs for Mirabel, featuring Australian musicians Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins, Deborah Conway, Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter and Ed Kuepper and their favorite recipes, and Laughing Stock – Comedy Chefs for Mirabel, featuring Australian comedians Eddie Perfect, Tim Minchin, Dave Hughes, Tripod, Corinne Grant, Libby Gorr and Julia Zemiro.

Ms Hutchison has written on social justice issues, environment and indigenous issues, she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.