TAMWORTH COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017 - Thursday 26TH JAN 2017

Another outstanding day in the Australian Capital of Country Music. This time on Australia Day.

It started of with Maree, Klein The Kiwi, and I popping into the Big Golden Guitar centre, and who do we walk into? Lyn Bowtell and her family. That woman's positivity is infectious. 

We followed this up with another trip into the heart of town, where we were able to catch up with a few CMAA Academy of Country Music Senior Graduates from last year (as a few were off home shortly after). It was awesome to catch up with everyone who could make it, and I hope to see them all again sooner rather than later.

We found a few New Zealand Country Music artists in our travels as well. At one point, it seemed that the Pig & Tinder Bar was taken over. Pretty serious stuff on Australia Day.

After that, we made our way towards the Tamworth Services Club where I was asked to be a special guest artist for Luke O'Shea. He put on a really enjoyable show. It was an honour just to be asked, but it was outstanding to get huge support from the audience for an acoustic version of my new song 'Crossroads' (which was backed up by the talented Phil Doublet ... who also co-wrote the song with me). Here's some footage of my performance.

We ended our night with dinner upstairs and wandered up the road to Tamworth Hotel, where KB (Kevin Bennett) was playing with his band. It was a great night, with various artists throughout performing Australian songs (it was Australia day after all), before finishing with my favourite, 'Don't Look Back At Me'.

Anyway, I've got a radio interview in the morning, as well as 2 shows tomorrow, so I'm gonna wrap it up there today. One more full day of Tamworth, and we'll be jetting it back to the tropical sun of Dunedin ... I hope.