Tom Curtain

Tom Curtain is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and tourist operator based in Katherine in the Northern Territory.

Career Curtain was born in Mildura, Victoria in 1979 before returned his family property Old Boyneside, Kumbia near Kingaroy in Queensland where he attended Kumbia State School. He boarded at Marist College in Brisbane before attending the University of Queensland.

Curtain worked at cattle stations across northern Australia but attributes the beginning of his song-writing to his time working in the stock-camp of Mount Sanford Station in the Northern Territory.

He began the tourism venture Katherine Outback Experience in Katherine, Northern Territory in 2013, that he runs with his wife Annabel. He is well known for performing while riding a horse and sharing his knowledge of training horses and working dogs for life on the land. Katherine Outback Experience won Gold for Tourist Attraction of the Year at the Australian Tourism Awards in 2021, 2023 and 2024.

Curtain has released five albums and toured widely, performing with Sara Storer, The Sunny Cowgirls, Pete Denahy and the Davidson Brothers.

Discography

Studio albums +List of studio albumsTitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions AUS AUSArtist Smack Bang! Released: 2004 Label: Tom Curtain (TC 001) Formats: CD — —Heatwave Released: 2006 Label: Tom Curtain, One Stop Formats: CD — —Territory Time Released: November 2017 Label: Tom Curtain Formats: CD, digital — —We're Still Here Released: 15 November 2019 Label: Outback Productions Formats: CD, digital — —Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Released: 21 October 2022 Label: Tom Curtain Formats: CD, digital — —Here's to You Released: 22 August 2025 Label: Tom Curtain (TC2025/6) Formats: CD, digital 76 8

Awards

Country Music Awards (CMAA) Curtain has won several Golden guitar awards at the Tamworth Country Music Awards of Australia.

NT Song of the Year Awards

Southern Stars Australian Independent Country Music Awards

Adelaide River Country Music Festival