“RED DUST DIVA” is a modern musical featuring the songs of Lyndsay Hammond.

The story is based on a real-life encounter Lyndsay had with a character in Kalgoorlie called Tam, an eccentric artist, who, but for his love of the bottle, would have achieved international fame.

Instead, he opted for the outback, boozing at the hotel, in between sorties into the outback, where he would sober up, drink only tea, take off all his clothes and paint.

Tam had an impact on Lyndsay’s life, though the story takes a little licence and suggests that Lyndsay was creatively ‘stranded’ in Kalgoorlie and the encounter with this odd man set her career back on track.

Alan Hopgood (writer of Alvin Purple, And The Big Men Fly and The Carer), who was approached to write the play that accompanies Lyndsay’s live performance of her music, said that he found himself intrigued by Lyndsay’s stories and a piece of music theatre has emerged, that has won over all who have encountered it.