Anna Gare Explained

Anna Gare
Birth Date:10 March 1969
Birth Place:Perth, Australia
Occupation:Musician, author, cook and television personality
Children:2
Television:Consuming Passions
Chef's Christmas
The Best in Australia
Junior MasterChef Australia
Destination WA

Anna Gare is an Australian musician, cook, television personality and author.

Biography

Gare was born 10 March 1969 in Subiaco, Western Australia[1] [2] and grew up in Fremantle. She attended the Lance Holt School, where as a student she ran a canteen for students and staff.

Musician

Gare started off her career as a musician when she was twelve[3] [4] when she formed an all-female band with her sister Sophie and two friends, Jodie Bell and Lucy Lemann, called the Jam Tarts.[4] [5] The band was managed by their mother, Kate Gare.[4] For ten years the Jam Tarts were a successful touring and recording band within Australia and performed at international music festivals. They performed live on NBC's Today Show, at the 1987 Edinburgh Fringe Festival,[6] and toured with Rik Mayall and Jonathan Richman.[7] The Jam Tarts also played as part of a larger band in combination with the Nansing Quartet, a six piece band whose members included Lucky Oceans, Adam Gare, Sam Lemann, Peter "Biff" Vincent, Peter Bell and Neale Austin. In 1986 she featured in an Australian film Pursuit of Happiness, as a 15-year-old who sings in a rock band and opposes American nuclear submarines being harboured in Australian waters.

Whilst Gare was in the Jam Tarts, she supplemented her rock and roll lifestyle with cooking, where she worked in various restaurants around Australia.[3] [5]

In 1993 she had a small role in Stark, a British-Australian television miniseries.

In 2004, Gare was inducted into the Western Australian Music Industry's Hall of Fame, as she had previously been inducted to the Rock 'n' Roll of Renown in 1993.[8]

Cooking and television

In 1991, after a decade in rock and roll, she decided it was time for a change. In 1999, Gare formed a small catering business, Deluxe Catering,[5] [9] which she operated until June 2007.[10]

She went on to present her own cooking segment on the magazine chat show Perth at Five.[4] The program was shot live and ran weeknights for four months. She also presented a documentary on Fremantle, some segments on Today Tonight, and cooking segments with Perth DIY show Nuts and Bolts.[3] She featured in, and narrated, a five-part series, Chefs Christmas,[4] for The LifeStyle Channel.[3] The series involved various Australian chefs and cooks, who invited viewers into their homes to share their festive season entertaining "secrets".[11]

In 2007, Gare co-starred with chefs Ben O'Donoghue and Darren Simpson in The Best in Australia on The LifeStyle Channel.[4] [9] The show was filmed in her parents' home, a converted church in North Fremantle.[5] It was positively received and Gare shot a second series which premiered on The LifeStyle Channel in August 2010. Best in Australia was syndicated in the United States on the Vibrant TV Network.

Gare was nominated as "Favourite Female Personality" at the 6th Annual ASTRA Awards in 2008.[4] [12]

In late 2008, she was approached by the producers of Masterchef Australia and auditioned for the position of mentor, host or judge on the show. However, she pulled out of the audition process, deciding to spend more time with her family, because the show was being filmed in Sydney.[13] She subsequently appeared as an additional judge on the first series of Junior MasterChef Australia, which premiered on 12 September 2010.

In 2013, Gare co-hosted an Australian reality television baking competition, The Great Australian Bake Off, with Shane Jacobson.[14] [15] In 2017, she began presenting a cooking segment in Destination WA, a Nine Network program.[16]

Personal

Anna is the daughter of Bob and Kate Gare, and is one of four children. Her father is an architect and her elder brother Tom is an artist. Her eldest brother Adam is a musician and member of The Nansing Quartet, and her sister, Sophie, is married to English comedian and author Ben Elton.[4] [17] [18]

Gare married a fellow Perth musician and had two children. In 2008 she married former Australian and NBA player Luc Longley,[4] [9] [13] [19] who has two daughters from a prior marriage. Since 2015 the couple have lived in a property near the coastal Western Australian town of Denmark.[18]

Awards

West Australian Music Industry Awards

The West Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards celebrating achievements for Western Australian music. They commenced in 1985.

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Published works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anna Gare. Ancestry.com. 20 August 2009.
  2. Web site: Anna Gare interviewed by John Bannister in the Perth Independent Music project . National Library of Australia. 10 August 2009.
  3. Web site: Anna Gare . . 10 August 2009.
  4. Web site: Recipe for Happiness . Scoop Magazine . Szabo . Sarah . 51 . Autumn 2010 . 7 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101102233741/http://www.scoop.com.au/Feature/Recipe-for-happiness . 2 November 2010 .
  5. News: The best in Fremantle. The Sunday Times. 22 June 2007. Ganska. Helen. 10 August 2009.
  6. Web site: Gilded Balloon Programmes and Awards . Gilded Balloon . 10 August 2009.
  7. News: Permutations of prolific jammers. The Age . Australia. Freeman-Greene. Suzy. 3 April 1987. 3 December 2009.
  8. Web site: WAM Hall of Fame . Western Australian Music Industry . 10 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054130/http://www.wam.asn.au/AboutWAM/WAMPrograms/WAMHallofFame/tabid/257/Default.aspx . 21 September 2013 .
  9. News: Anna combines two passions. The Sunday Times. 7 June 2007. Kelly. Jim. 10 August 2009.
  10. Web site: Deluxe Catering. Deluxe Catering. 10 August 2009.
  11. Web site: Chefs Christmas . . 10 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091005051437/http://lifestylechannel.com.au/ChefsChristmas/ . 5 October 2009 .
  12. Web site: David . Knox . 2008 ASTRA nominees announced . tvtonight.com.au . 26 March 2008 . 9 May 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090224022303/http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2008/03/2008-astra-nominees-announced.html . 24 February 2009 . live .
  13. News: Top WA chef Anna Gare chooses family over Masterchef fame. The Sunday Times. 25 July 2009. Williams. Gail. 10 August 2009.
  14. Web site: The Great Australian Bake off . 2012-12-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130130033246/http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8550663 . 30 January 2013 .
  15. Web site: The Great Australian Bake Off . 13 September 2018. IMDb.
  16. Web site: Destination WA. 13 September 2018. Guruproductions Pty Ltd.
  17. News: Ben's lowdown on the high life. The Age . 15 November 2002. Halliday. Claire. 10 August 2009 . Melbourne.
  18. News: Home scores on many levels. The West Australian. 14 March 2015. Katherine. Fleming. 26 February 2018.
  19. News: Longley rushed to save kids. The West Australian. West Australian Newspapers Limited. 9 April 2007. Hampson. Katie. 10 August 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090417014849/http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77. 17 April 2009. dead.
  20. Web site: Eat In. 13 September 2018. Murdoch Books. https://web.archive.org/web/20180913112840/https://www.murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/cooking-food-drink/general-cookery-recipes/Eat-In-Anna-Gare-9781742663890. 13 September 2018. dead.
  21. Web site: Delicious Every Day. 13 September 2018. Murdoch Books.