2025 News:

New song: No Going Back

Sarah’s new single, No Going Back, is out now.
Watch the lyric video on YouTube. Stream/purchase on Bandcamp and other online music stores.

Past Gigs – 2025

Gig: Sarah van Zyl & Andrew Cowie at The Clare Inn
Wed 29th Oct

Join us at the Clare Inn Irish Pub in Mt Eden, Auckland, for an evening of sonic tonic with three local acts, each one sharing their unique brand of acoustic and roots original music with a few complementary covers thrown in for good measure.

Gig alert:
Howick Village Hop
Sat 11th Oct

East Aucklanders, Sarah’s back for this year’s Hop.

Look out for Sarah on the Main Stage playing her favourite rock ‘n roll tunes!

2024 News

1st Nov 2024 – Single: Easy To Love

21st Jun 2024: Single:Timing’s Never Right

https://open.spotify.com/album/0bpbubXbPEYeq14qS4FRtt?si=NlOp9zO1SDO1sNJRjZOFiw

All songs available now for purchase/stream via all online music platforms, including Sarah’s Bandcamp and Spotify, and YouTube.

16/03/24 – East FM Radio Interview

I sat down to chat with Phil Taylor on his show, “She’ll Be Right,” which airs on Saturdays on EastFM 88.1 107.1. We chatted about my musical journey and songs I’ve written. Phil played some of my recorded songs, and I sang two songs live in the studio. Listen to the interview here.

Blog: Creative Vibrations

5 Small Wonders of the Week

Hi! Every alternate week I aim to share 5 Small Wonders of the Week, five things that I find inspiring, uplifting, and interesting – and I hope you find some value in them too. This is the very first one, enjoy! 1. For the mind: HAPPIER podcast I want to share one of my favourite Read more

1st Nov 2024
Small Wonders: Running and Travel

How these two passion combine so well I recently came across a book at the library called ‘Epic Runs of the World,’ published by Lonely Planet. It’s a wonderful compilation of running routes and races from across the globe. I have really enjoyed reading about the big running events taking place around the world, as Read more

18th Oct 2024
Small Wonders: A new song, a small victory

Greetings to everyone reading this 🙂 I hope you are having a wonderful week. Thank you for bearing with the irregularity of my posts. I am working on a regular writing schedule, I swear. Today I released a new song that I wrote, performed, and recorded. The song was written years ago (in a different Read more

21st Jun 2024
Small Wonders: Flowers

Flowers to brighten your day Hi all. It has been a long time since I posted. I had initially intended to post weekly, but you know how it goes, life and work gets busy and some tasks come to a standstill. It didn’t help that my weekly posting schedule was a bit ambitious, so going Read more

3rd May 2024
Small Wonders: Little Blue Penguins

The story behind my song, “Penguins Crossing (Oamaru)” My 2023 single “Penguins Crossing (Oamaru)” came out one year ago tomorrow, so I thought I’d share a bit about the song’s background. I never would have predicted that I’d write a song about penguins, but when inspiration takes hold, you just go with it. It started Read more

26th Jan 2024
Small Wonders: Quotations

10 quotes and their lessons I am not a collector of objects, not even items that a musician would collect, such as guitars or records. I do however, collect poems, lyrics, and quotations. Whenever I come across one that resonates, I try to take the time to write it down in one of my notebooks. Read more

19th Jan 2024