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Gympie Muster
The Gympie Music Muster is an Australian music festival held in and around the Amamoor Creek State Forest at Amamoor Creek near Gympie, Queensland, Australia. The Muster started as a community fundraiser in 1982 and has now grown to a four-day festival attracting musicians from across Australia and internationally. The 2015 Gympie Muster attracted a crowd of over 23,000. A fundraising initiative of the Apex Club of Gympie, the Muster is a registered charity with all profits distributed among worthy community groups and charity partners, both locally and nationally. An ever-growing number of community groups are also involved in the staging of the event, and for most, it is their major fundraiser for the year. There is a real sense of community ownership in the Muster with now more than 35 local community groups involved in the event's success. It's also the second largest country music festival in Australia, after Tamworth. History Since its inception, the Muster has raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amamoor Creek, Queensland
Amamoor Creek is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Amamoor Creek had a population of 56 people. Geography The locality is roughly bounded to the south by the Amamoor Range, to the west by the Coast Range, and to the north by an unnamed ridgeline and the Ward Range. Amamoor Creek has the following peaks along its northern boundary (from west to east): * Tewoo Rock () * Mount Tewoo () * Mount Wilwarrel () *Little Baldy () Most of the east of the locality is within the Amamoor State Forest (). The west of the locality is within Wrattens National Park (). The land use in the middle of the locality is predominantly grazing on native vegetation. History Amamoor Creek was named and bounded on 1 December 2000. Amamoor was the name of a pastoral run in the rea held by J.D. McTaggart in the late 1850s. Amamoor State Forest was declared on 1 January 1980 under the Forestry Act 1959. In January 1982 the Webb Brothers (Fabian, Marius and Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kernaghan
Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has sold over two million albums, and as of 2021, has won 38 Golden Guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia (second to Slim Dusty). He was the 2008 Australian of the Year, in recognition of his support for rural and regional Australia. Kernaghan was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2015 ARIA Awards, for ''Spirit of the Anzacs''. Biography 1965–1990: Early years Lee Kernaghan was born on 15 April 1964 in Corryong, Victoria and is the son of country music singer and truck driver Ray Kernaghan. Lee spent his formative years growing up in the Riverina country of Southern New South Wales. His grandfather was a third generation drover of sheep and cattle. In 1986, Kernaghan traveled to the United States to represent Australia at the Nashville 'Fan Fair' country music festival. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor and D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Traditional Owners of the Brisbane area include clans of the Yugara, Turrbal and Quandamooka peoples. The Turrbal word for the Brisbane area is ''Meeanjin''. The Moreton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Nicholson (singer)
Shane Nicholson is an Australian singer-songwriter from Brisbane. He has released 11 albums, both in Australia and internationally, and has won 3 ARIA Awards, 15 Golden Guitars, and 2 APRA Awards. He's twice been named Producer of the Year at the Country Music Awards of Australia. Career 1990s–2001: Freak and Pretty Violet Stain During his final year of high school, Nicholson was part of a band called Freak, which won an early round of Triple J Unearthed competition in the Sunshine Coast division. Shortly after this, the band name changed to Pretty Violet Stain and released an extended play in 1997 called ''Blush''. This was followed by singles "If the Money's Right", "Never Come Down" and "Talk" and album ''Parachutes and Gravity'', which was released in 2000. The band split shortly after. 2002–2007: ''It's a Movie'' and ''Faith and Science'' Nicholson signed with EastWest and released his debut studio album ''It's a Movie'' in 2002. It was during the recording of this albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolfe Brothers
The Wolfe Brothers are an Australian country music duo consisting of brothers Tom and Nick Wolfe. The group formerly included childhood friends Brodie Rainbird and Casey Kostiuk. The Wolfe Brothers rose to prominence after placing second in season six of ''Australia's Got Talent''. Career Early years to 2012: Formation and ''Australia's Got Talent'' Tom and Nick Wolfe grew up on a small berry farm outside Hobart, Tasmania. Their father Malcolm and uncle Tony played in a band with their parents, called ''The Wolfe Family Orchestra''. Nick Wolfe says, "We come from four generations of farmers and musicians." Their father guided Nick to the guitar and Tom to the piano, perhaps with "the intention of starting a band with us". Their mother filled the family home with music, exposing her children to 1990s country staples like Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus. The Wolfe Brothers were formed by brothers Nick (guitar and vocals) and Tom Wolfe (bass and vocals), Brodie Rainbird (guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Carrington
Rodney Scott Carrington (born October 19, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist and songwriter. He has released six major-label studio albums and a greatest hits package, on Mercury Records and Capitol Records. His comedy act typically combines stand-up comedy and original songs. Most of his songs are performed in a neotraditional country style, with Carrington handling lead vocals and guitar. Carrington has also starred in the ABC sitcom '' Rodney'' and in the 2008 film ''Beer for My Horses''. Early life Rodney Carrington was born in Longview, Texas in 1968, and lived there until 1990. He worked as a comedian in local venues, gaining exposure through radio programs such as '' The Bob and Tom Show''. Career Carrington's first album, ''Hangin' with Rodney'', was released in 1998 via Mercury Records Nashville. This album, consisting of both stand-up comedy and original songs, contained the non-charting single "Letter to My Penis" and peaked at No.&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corey Harris
Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, in Denver, Colorado, United States) is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic guitar blues in the mid-1990s. He was featured on the 2003 PBS television mini-series, ''The Blues'', in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese. Biography Harris was born and raised near Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a bachelor's degree in 1991, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007. Harris received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for language studies in Cameroon in his early twenties, before taking a teaching post in Napoleonville, Louisiana under the Teach For America program. His debut solo album ''Between Midnight and Day'' (1995) was produced by Grammy nominee/composer/producer Larry Hoffman, who discovered him in 1994 in Helena, Arkansas. The record included covers of Sleepy John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gord Bamford
Gord Bamford (born April 17, 1976) is an Australian-Canadian country music singer. He has released ten studio albums. Alberta-raised Bamford stands as one of the most decorated artists in Canadian country music with 26 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) awards, along with multiple JUNO nominations. Additionally, Bamford is one of two multi-time winners of Nashville's Country Music Association (CMA) Global Country Artist of the Year award, along with The Shires. Biography Early years Bamford was born in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. When Bamford was five years old, he moved with his mother, Marilyn, from Australia to Lacombe, Alberta, Canada after his parents' divorce. A singer who toured with an Australian country band, Bamford's mother encouraged him to pursue a career in music. In 1995, Bamford entered and won the Nornet Radio Network's "Search for the Stars." With Rob Bartlett from Sundae Sound producing, Bamford went to Calgary to record his debut single, "Forev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Harvey
Adam Harvey (born 21 December 1974) is an Australian country music singer. Harvey has sold over half a million records, has been nominated five times for an ARIA Music Award and has won nine golden guitars at the Country Music Awards of Australia. Biography Harvey got his start musically learning country classics on the guitar as a small boy. His first gig came at the age of ten, and by his school years he was performing rock covers at a club when he was discovered and went off on tour as support for Tania Kernaghan. In 1998 Harvey won his first Country Music (CMAA) Award for 'Vocal Collaboration of the Year' with Tanya Self for "Drive Away". In 2001 he won another CMAA Award for 'Vocal Collaboration of the Year' this time with Beccy Cole, Darren Coggan and Felicity, for "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind". In 2002, Harvey won two CMAA Awards; 'Album of the Year' and 'Male Vocalist of the Year' for ''Workin' Overtime''. ''Workin' Overtime'' was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McClymonts
The McClymonts are an Australian country music trio comprising sisters Brooke McClymont (born 1981), Samantha McClymont (born 1986) and Mollie McClymont (born 1987), originally from Grafton, New South Wales. They have released one eponymous EP and six studio albums, '' Chaos and Bright Lights'', '' Wrapped Up Good'', '' Two Worlds Collide'', '' Here's To You & I'', '' Endless'' and '' Mayhem to Madness''. They have won fifteen Golden Guitars and two ARIA Awards. Music career The McClymonts were discovered by Universal Records in 1997 when they were performing at the Gympie Muster, which saw eldest sister Brooke McClymont signed to the label."Celebrity Access: Meet the McClymonts". ''Bellaboo''. Retrieved 10 October 2008. After middle sister Samantha McClymont went solo, Universal decided to sign them as a trio in February 2006. 2006: ''The McClymonts'' EP The band recorded their first release '' The McClymonts'' at the Rocking Horse Studios in Byron Bay with producer Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beccy Cole
Beccy Cole (born Rebecca Diane Thompson, 27 October 1972), also known as Beccy Sturtzel, Rebecca Diane Albeck and Bec O'Donovan, is an Australian country music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released ten studio albums, with six reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 40, '' Little Victories'' (January 2003), '' Preloved'' (September 2010), '' Songs & Pictures'' (September 2011), ''Great Women of Country'' (with Melinda Schneider, November 2014), '' Sweet Rebecca'' (April 2015) and ''The Great Country Songbook Volume 2'' (with Adam Harvey, April 2017). Her video album, ''Just a Girl Singer'' (August 2004), peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Top 40 DVD Chart. Cole has received nine Golden Guitar trophies at the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia. During December 2005 to January 2006 she performed for Australian Defence Force personnel in Iraq. Her related single, "Poster Girl (Wrong Side of the World)" (May 2016), expresses her support for the troops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (singer)
John Robert Williamson (born 1 November 1945) is an Australian country music and folk music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, television host and conservationist. Williamson usually writes and performs songs that relate to the history and culture of Australia, particularly the outback, in a similar vein to Slim Dusty and Buddy Williams before him. Williamson has released over fifty albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books and has sold more than 4,000,000 albums in Australia. His best known hit is " True Blue". On Australia Day (26 January) in 1992 Williamson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) with the citation: "for service to Australian country music and in stimulating awareness of conservation issues". He has received twenty-six Golden Guitar trophies at the Country Music Awards of Australia, he has won three ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album and, in 2010, was inducted into the related Hall of Fame. Early life John Robert Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
