From the Bank Manager’s Desk to the home recording studio – Tiff Reynolds is back
By day, you’ll find Tiff Reynolds managing Kadina’s Commonwealth Bank. But behind the scenes — in the spare room of her family home on the Copper Coast — she’s tuning a guitar, chasing a dream that never really left.
At 35, Tiff is stepping back into the music spotlight, inspired by the drought-stricken farmland around her, and a burning desire to say to our farmers, “We see you.”
Before life brought her to the Copper Coast, teenage Tiffney was tearing up country music festivals across the nation — clocking up miles, awards and fans. She was a Telstra Road to Tamworth finalist and a three-time graduate of the Tamworth Camerata.
But like a lot of young women, life had other plans. Marriage, babies, a move to Roxby Downs, and then setting up family life on the Copper Coast with her husband Geoff and two kids, Melissa and Michael. Music took a backseat. For a while.
Until a song she wrote at 17, while crossing a dry stretch of the Hay Plains, came flooding back. Back then, it was just words — a reflection on the stark contrast between her lush Adelaide Hills home and the desolate land stretched out before her. Now, living through SA’s brutal dry spell and working in a bank where she sees firsthand the toll it’s taking, those lyrics hit harder than ever.
“Let it rain, let it pour,
‘Cause I don’t know if I can do this anymore.”
Tiff’s working on recording that song — Let it Rain — in her spare room, just her and her guitar. She’s dreaming of a music clip that puts drought in the spotlight and a track on Spotify that lets farming families know they’re not alone.
A major turning point in her musical journey came with a recent diagnosis of ADHD — something Tiff says has completely changed the way she hears and experiences music.
The shift has given her a new kind of confidence — and a quiet determination to pick up where she left off. These days, she’s weaving music back into her life — playing the odd solo gig and performing with local band Tomorrow’s Horizon.
You can follow Tiff’s music journey on social media — and be sure to keep an ear out for Let it Rain!
