June Birthdays

New Album For Maurice Hardy

Maurice has a new album out now titled “Requests”, it has twenty one tracks – all favourites and obviously often requested.

The titles are Digging Up Bones, I Love A Rainy Night, Here In The Real World, Ring Of Fire, Appaloosa The Horse The Friend, Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Martin’s Corner Store, Rhinestone Cowboy, Walkadodalongathon, Barnsey And The Yellow Grapevine Van, Okie

From Muskogee, Friends In Low Places, Still Asking Why, Coward Of The County, I’m A Believer, Oslo And The Country DJ, The Quilty, Distant Drums, Let’s Get Some Drinking Done, Detroit City.

The Album features Sruie French, Gary Smith, Michael Wilson, Lindsay Masters, David Bochenek, Wayne Appleby, Maureen Bochenek, Alice Vernon, Linda Masters.

The Album is distributed by VG Promotions – Caboolture Queensland. 0409 148 028
www.joysmusicworld.com/artists/MauriceHardy.html

Joy

Restless Wind - Second Album Release For
Lana Ross
Two Singles Distributed To Radio NfS In Australia, Hillcrest Internationally

An extraordinary year followed for Lana Ross when she released her debut album ‘Stories To Tell’ in Tamworth in January 2008. 

Her second album ‘Restless Wind’ released last month promises a similar

scenario for the Australian singer songwriter, based in Mackay Queensland.

Two singles were immediately released to radio.  ‘Little Western Gully’ on NfS in Australia, and ‘The Walls’ to the international market through Canadian distributor Hillcrest Marketing Service.

A product of renown producer Lindsay Butler, who also produced Lana’s first album, LBS management says ‘Lana obviously felt the pressure to say the least!, but if this is the end result of being under pressure, then it’s a great outcome.  The Industry is very excited at what will come in future albums from this talented singer songwriter.’

Lana says ‘Lindsay and I felt the pressure to deliver a great second album after the success of the first album.  It was Lindsay's cool head and meticulous production that has made this a fantastic album.’

Seven of the songs are written by Lana herself.  Other tracks include a Shirley Thoms classic and selected songs from songwriters Ben Jacobs and Manfred Vigars who have contributed a track each, both co written with Shaza Leigh.  The Lana Ross | Shaza Leigh track “The Walls’ is the first selection for the international market.

‘I’m excited about the co-write with Shaz ’The Walls’ - the results of this song, is magical!  It was a first choice when we discussed releasing a track overseas.’

‘The Walls’ is a very special song to write having recently lost a grandparent leaving behind his widow of 50 + years and to see her waiting as if behind, is a very heartfelt emotion.’ 

‘Hillcrest feedback already indicates the song is receiving strong airplay among the favourites of most of the DJs on the media boards.  But it’s still a bit early to tell.’ Lana added.

Of the remaining songs, she says ‘Cat Yella’ is a tongue in cheek song about how we girls sometimes will do anything to get attention from our men.  ‘Chorus of the Bushland’ was written while I was working 100 miles west of Nebo basically in the middle of nowhere, just a beautiful songwriting experience.  ‘Little Western Gully was written on a road trip, observing the changes in the landscape from one area to another ...a roll of the dice!’

‘The Murray River Song’ written on the Banks of the Murray where I went a lot when I was a child and returned there recently after 20 plus years and noticed how fragile she had become.  ‘Calling you Home’ was written as a tribute to the Australian bushland - the closest thing to heaven to me.  And, the title track ‘Restless Wind’ – simply a reflection on my life so far.’

‘I love what I’m doing.  I have no regrets.’ Lana concludes. ‘The first album taught me not to be afraid! To be myself! I have learnt many industry lessons over the past two years and I’m sure I will learn a few more....over the coming years’.

NfS Lana Ross Little Western Gully from the Restless Wind album.
LANA ROSS is an emerging singer-songwriter who is going from strength to strength.  The release of her second album Restless Wind follows the success of her debut Stories To Tell that earned her the 2009 TSA Gospel Song Of The Year and Gold Medallion for best Queensland New Talent of the Year in 2009, and also provided the strong radio single Heavens Park.
Her last single The Murray River Song was well received since its release in September 2009, and with a Top 3 nomination for Queensland Female Vocal in the Gold Medallion Awards for 2010 certainly created a lot of excitement in the Ross camp.

The new single to be released from the album is Little Western Gully, a gentle reflection on nature rolling the dice in the Australian bush.

Rhonda Sinclair

Doug McIntyre 2010 Capital News ‘Male Rising Star’
Australian Independent Country Music Awards
dougmcintyrecountrymusic.com.au

Doug will be appearing again at this year’s 2010 Gympie Muster !

“I’m really looking forward to meeting old friends and new friends, and performing my songs about this great country of ours from my forth-

coming album “Australian Son”

For further info go to: www.muster.com.au/program.html

Doug has almost completed writing the 12 songs for the album. Production will soon commence with Steve Newton, with release before the end of this year.

Thanks for Your continued support of Doug’s Australian Country !

Doug

CMT Awards

After much anticipation, the votes are in and the winners for the 2010 CMT Music Awards have been announced! On the night Carrie Underwood took out the coveted fan voted ‘Video of the Year’ for “Cowboy Casanova” and Miranda Lambert took home her first CMT Buckle. Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood all graced the stage with fabulous performances.

Sony Music would like to congratulate all the winners. Sony Music winners are:

Video of the Year
"Cowboy Casanova," Carrie Underwood
"Awesome fans. Awesome, awesome, amazing, awesome." - Carrie Underwood

Female Video of the Year
"White Liar," Miranda Lambert
"Thank you to the fans. Let's hope my next wedding doesn't end up like that video." - Miranda Lambert

Duo Video of the Year
"Indian Summer," Brooks & Dunn
"We were not expecting this so much that Mr. Dunn has gone to the restroom -- in Santa Fe, N.M." - Kix Brooks

CMT Performance of the Year
"Temporary Home (from Invitation Only)," Carrie Underwood
"This song means so much to me. Thank you, all the fan club members who were there for Invitation Only. You guys are awesome." - Carrie Underwood

Director of the Year
Shaun Silva
Videos: "Indian Summer", "Out Last Night", "Rain Is a Good Thing", "Here Comes Goodbye", "Summer Nights", "Living for the Night", "Nightswimming/Joey", "Keep You", "I'm Alive", "Do I"

Emma Smith

Margie-May And Max Announced As Finalists In The Junior Saddles Competition 2010 Heat 2 In Dubbo

The Junior Saddles Competition 2010 continues the journey around NSW searching for young country music artists. The second heat was held on June 6th in Dubbo, where 14 year old Margie-May Hockey from Dubbo & 16 year old Max Mustonen from Wallendbeen won their places in the Final from stiff competition.

Margie-May performed two songs, ‘Billy’s Ride’ (an original) and ‘Poster Girl’ (by Beccy Cole), which showed off her powerful voice, her songwriting ability & her commanding presence on stage. The aspiring singer songwriter is having a successful year – in January she was awarded Aristocrat Junior Entertainer of the Year in Tamworth.

Max performed ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’ (by Garth Brooks), and ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, (by Johnny Cash), which showed off both his comfortable vocals & his accomplished guitar-playing skills.

Margie-May & Max will join eight other Finalists from around NSW at the Junior Saddles Competition Final in Sydney on October 9th at Rooty Hill RSL.

The ultimate winner of The Junior Saddles Competition 2010 will win $1000, and will perform at the prestigious Golden Saddle Awards that night.

The Saddles

Gold Guitar Awards 2010
Gore, New Zealand
The Miti Family Of Porirua
with Kylie Harris of Nashville

Justina , Kylie, Sonny jnr, Tiana

Last weekend the Miti family of Porirua took their love of country music and their favourite country  songs to Gore to compete in the Gold Guitar Awards.
They came home with a swag of Trophies and some good prize money having won the following events at this very popular Country Music event in Gore.
1, The Over All Runner Up to  Gold Guitar Winner .
2, The Senior Group Section
3, The Senior Vocal Section
4,Sonny Miti won the Instrumental
5,Tiana Miti Over all Runner to the Intermediate Winner
6, Intermediate Duet
7 , Intermediate Group
8, Tiana won the Intermediate Country Rock
9, The plugged section of The Street Busking Competition

It was their first time to attend this Award in the South Island and represented A new Country Music Club in Porirua called "The North City Country Music Club" The Mitis were accompanied by their parents and supporters Gail Russell Peato Iosefo , Barry and Carmen Tobin also of Porirua .

The children loved these Awards and enjoyed meeting new people in country music . Of course they would love to go back again someday  and do it all over again .

Sent by
Gail Russell
Porirua
New Zealand

A Journalist Asks Us Some Questions

These clips from an interview contain some insight into the lives of musicians...at least two of them.

Q: Why did you leave Buffalo for Ohio?
A: Misty left with her former husband, to get work. They were there for a couple of years.
She worked as a pianist in a bar owned by Doris Day's parents. I lived in Ohio with my father's relatives when I was a child. I later moved from Buffalo directly to Miami and began playing piano all around south Florida.

Q: When did you leave and did you go right to Florida?
A: Misty and her ex went directly from Cincinnati to Miami. In Ohio their car was hit by an old millionaire's limo, and he had a lot of clout in town. Misty and her ex were being sued and were about to lose their trailer home. We both moved to Miami somewhere in the 1960's.

Q: Exactly how did you guys meet in Hollywood Florida?
A: We were aware of each other because we both played piano in Hollywood FL, and our names and pictures were often in the paper. I went to a club where she had her band, and checked her out. I made a date with her, and she stood me up. Her friends told her I was a mafia guy, which wasn't true. I just worked in a lot of mob owned clubs.

A few months later we were both playing piano bars in downtown Hollywood, on US #1, about a block apart. I dropped into my club on my night off to see how they were doing, and Misty was talking to my boss about getting my job. We began seeing a lot of each other after that. Misty and I finally formed our own band and played a lot on the road. We were married in the 1960's in Kingsland Georgia,  on the way to a gig in South Carolina.. one of our favorite Carolinas..

Q: Why did you start all those personal record labels?
A: The labels had different names because we had different partners (backers) in each. The best way to get a major label career back then was to release something on your own label, prove it locally, and then make a deal with a bigger label.

Q: How many releases do you recall having on them?
A: We probable had 15 or 20 releases by us and other artists on our Darn, Zodiac, and Marianna labels. Mostly by us. Misty was Jacqueline Hyde and Maryanne Male. I had The Jack Blanchard Group. At that time I also wrote and directed the music for a government documentary film titled "A Million Acre Playground", and we released "Gemini" by the Jack Blanchard Group. It was getting strong play on the Miami Pop stations. Then the Ventures covered it note-for-note and released it on Dolton, a subsidiary of Liberty Records. They called and wanted 100% of the publishing on the song. I was so angry about the cover, that I refused to give it to them. They then flipped the record and promoted the other side, which was "La Bamba", a big hit. They later recut "Gemini" on a couple of their albums. Each one sounded worse, and they have never paid us.

Q: What was your first country recording?
A: "Bethlehem Steel", our first duet, was initially on our Darn Records label. "Bethlehem Steel" and three other songs were on an EP (Extended Play), which had 4 songs on a 45rpm record. EP's were often used to shop recordings to labels in those days. These four songs were from our first Nashville recording session. All our recordings before that were recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami. "Bethlehem Steel" started getting local airplay in Florida, and a DJ named Lee ("Hoss") Moss called Wayside Records, a New England country label that was starting to get known. They signed us. (Thank you, Lee Moss.)

Our second Wayside single "Big Black Bird" got a "Top 10 Pick" in Billboard... Pop, not Country! They didn't know what we were. It started to get heavy airplay, and Wayside was afraid it would get too big for them, so they made a distribution deal with Mercury/Smash Records. They argued so long about the deal that the single had to be released again. By that time it had already lost its momentum and newness. Stuff happens.

Q: What did your families think/care when you left?
A: My family had already moved to Coral Gables FL. I was left alone in Buffalo. I got married (to somebody else), worked in factories, played piano nights and weekends, and started The Dawn Breakers, a Pop vocal quartet. The Dawn Breakers were signed by Coral Records. Misty left home to get away from an unhappy situation.

Since those days we have performed concerts/shows in 49 states. We were once on the road for 8 years straight. Strangely, we have never played Buffalo together. Before we had hits, we were once booked into a fancy restaurant in Buffalo, and when we got there they had another band. We settled for dinner.

Jack Blanchard 

Country Music Hall Of Famer Jimmy Dean Dies At 81

Country Music Hall of Famer Jimmy Dean, whose "Big Bad John" was a genre-crossing smash, died Sunday night in Virginia. He was 81.

A bold personality who founded the highly successful sausage company that bears his name, Dean helped spread country music's popularity through his recordings and through his status as a national television personality.

"I was one of the lucky people who really got to know him," said fellow Hall of Famer Bill Anderson. "Beneath that bravado, there was a wonderful human being. I've never had a better friend."

Born in Olton, Texas, in 1928, Mr. Dean served in the United States Air Force before breaking into show business. He helped Patsy Cline and Roy Clark get their starts in music, and he split time in the 1950s between television projects and recording endeavors. In 1961, he hit with the recitation "Big Bad John."

That million-selling recording wound up atop the Billboard pop charts, and it was a Grammy for Best Country & Western Recording in 1962. It also helped Mr. Dean's star ascend to the point that he sometimes hosted The Tonight Show and also starred in his own television vehicle, ABC's The Jimmy Dean Show.

Mr. Dean had another major hit with the country chart-topping "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)," and he recorded a Top 10 country hit in the 1970s with "I.O.U."

In 1969, Mr. Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company, which was later acquired by Consolidated Foods. In 2004, he released an autobiography, 30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham.

Mr. Dean was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year, and was slated to attend a Medallion Ceremony commemorating his official induction in October. He is survived by his wife, Donna Meade Dean.

Funeral Arrangements For Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Ray Dean, 81, died suddenly but peacefully at his home on the James River in Varina, VA on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Jimmy was born into poverty August 10, 1928 in Olton, TX and was predeceased by his mother, Ruth Taylor Dean , father George Otto Dean and brother Don Taylor Dean. As a young man Jimmy joined our nation’s Armed Forces, and while stationed at Bolling AFB in Washington , DC, he began his musical career performing in nightclubs. Eventually his talents took him to radio, television, writing songs and making records. After being discovered on local television, he starred in “The Jimmy Dean Show” on CBS and ABC-TV. In the 1960’s and 70’s he went on to record many hit songs including “P.T. 109”, “To A Sleeping Beauty”, the perennial Mother’s Day favorite “IOU” and the self penned, Grammy Award winning hit “Big Bad John.”

Jimmy’s career led him to regular performances in the casinos of Las Vegas and Reno, NV, as well as the Hollywood Palace, The London Palladium and Carnegie Hall. As an actor Jimmy portrayed Fess Parker’s sidekick on “The Daniel Boone Show’ in the 1960’s, and in 1971 he starred with Sean Connery in the James Bond movie ‘Diamonds Are Forever.” Jimmy’s investments included founding the most successful sausage company in America. In 1984 he sold Jimmy Dean Foods to the Sara Lee Corporation, but remained their company spokesperson for many years. Jimmy retired in 2001 but remained active in his community as a benefactor to local schools. He served on the board of Virginia’s Game and Inland Fisheries, was a member of the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, and will be inducted posthumously in October of this year into The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Jimmy is survived by his wife of 18 years, Donna Meade Dean of Varina, daughter Connie Dean Taylor of Mahwah, NJ, sons Garry T. Dean and wife Yoon of Stratford, CT, and Robert R. Dean and wife Jennifer of Old Tappan, NJ. He is also survived by his granddaughters Caroline S. Taylor and Brianna Rae Dean.

Visitation will be held at Nelsen Funeral Home on Laburnum Ave. on Sunday, June 20 from 12 noon until 8 PM, and a celebration of Jimmy’s life will be held on Monday, June 21 at 11 AM at Grove Ave. Baptist Church. Interment will be private for the family at the Dean home on Chaffin’s Bluff.

Marty Matell

Tim McGraw: Country Star, Film Actor And Changed Man

Celebrity types sometimes get accused of changing after they spend some time in the spotlight.

Tim McGraw, who has become an in-demand actor as well as a hit-making country singer, is one who will admit to it. He figures he needed to change, and after a while he wanted to change.

It wasn’t a matter of an intervention or a watershed moment. Just some tweaks that moved him further away from a character in one of his finer singles, the one that goes, “I don’t know why you gotta be angry all the time.” And sobriety has helped.

McGraw hasn’t won a major Country Music Association award in six years, in spite of monumental commercial successes. On Thursday night, June 10, he’s playing the CMA Music Festival for the first time since 2001. At times unsupported by the Nashville music scene and often at odds with his Nashville-based Curb Records label, he’s headlining and helping to organize the Nashville Rising flood benefit show on June 22.
“I didn’t want to battle anymore,” said McGraw, sitting in an upstairs office at Red Light Management in Hillsboro Village. “You get in your own little world and sometimes you don’t realize you’re the only one battling.”

A Hollywood attraction

McGraw’s changes won’t be noticed by most of the people who witness his live shows. He still saunters around the stage and sings from a catalogue that includes 44 Top 10 country singles over the past 16 years. But offstage, there’s an air of openness and welcoming to the 43-year-old that wasn’t necessarily there in the past.

Sometimes, the changes are evidenced in the small stuff. A decade ago, McGraw was apt to grasp for a grudge to hold. These days, he smiles and jokes around people with whom he used to feud.

“There was some legitimate anger and some illegitimate anger, and a lot of times I should have just shut up and sang instead of being worried about what someone said about my wife (fellow country star Faith Hill) in the paper, or what someone on a radio station was saying,” he said. “I probably had some legitimate gripes that I handled the wrong way. Plus, I drank too much for a while. I’ve been sober for two years now, and that’s done a lot to help me let go of a lot of things.

“There was a time when I thought, and there’s still a tinge of truth to it, that when Faith and I got married, there was this thing where people liked the idea at first, and then they didn’t like the idea that both of us were successful,” he continued. “So they were going to figure out how to knock one of us down. I got the attitude in my mind that that’s what was going on, and I fiercely defended her, to the point where I (ticked) a lot of people off. And if you’re in a high-profile situation where you feel like you’re fighting windmills everywhere you turn, it starts getting dark to you.”

Then, too, there are other fish to fry, and they’re big enough to put interpersonal Music City squabbles into perspective.

McGraw is a Hollywood attraction now, starring in movies such as Friday Night Lights, The Blind Side and the upcoming Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle, Love Don’t Let Me Down. McGraw said the big-screen activities augment and enable his musical endeavors.

“Acting and music, one helps the other,” he said. “As an actor and as a singer in the studio or onstage, you’re trying to create empathy. With both of them, you’re creating these scenes and wanting someone to attach themselves to the character. In acting, I’ve seen myself get better. But I feel like I’m about 30 percent as good as I think I can be. It’s like with singing, when I go into the studio and have these notions of, ‘This is how I’m going to sing this song.’ Then I hear it back, and, (expletive), it’s just me. There I am again.’ I just want to be good.”

Or more than good.

“He wants to be great,” said friend and co-writer Brett Warren. “He’s been able to reinvent himself and stay relevant over so many years in part because of his competitive nature.”

On radio and in terms of album sales, McGraw has already put together what Billboardcountry charts director Wade Jessen calls “a career for the ages.” Twenty-three of his singles have topped the country charts, and 10 of his albums have sold more than a million copies.

“He went from having what I think he would reflect on as lackluster material in the early days to a lot of records that sounded good on the radio, like ‘I Like It, I Love It,’ but from about 1998 forward he started to give us some intelligent, unusual, thoughtful songs,” Jessen said. “Stuff like ‘Please Remember Me,’ ‘Red Ragtop’ and ‘Live Like You Were Dying,’ those are songs that change people’s lives and change the way they think about things. He has an unbelievable career under his belt if he never had another hit record.”

'I'm blessed'

McGraw has no plans to discontinue issuing hit records. If recent history holds up, though, he won’t likely be collecting any awards for those hits, or for being one of country’s top touring acts.

“I’m blessed, and I don’t like to complain about awards and nominations,” he said. “I do think it makes a difference to your fans, though. Someone may say, ‘Nobody remembers who won last year,’ and that’s true, but there are fans who watch the awards and if someone isn’t nominated they think, ‘Maybe they’re on their way out.’ It does affect the mindset of fans, and the people in the industry know that or they wouldn’t try to manipulate it. What’s the criteria for entertainer of the year, anyway?”

According to the Country Music Association’s criteria, the CMA’s entertainer prize is supposed to go to “The act displaying the greatest competence in all aspects of the entertainment field.” Voters are directed to consider recordings, touring, staging, public acceptance, leadership and contribution to country’s image.

For his part, McGraw has recently starred in an Oscar-nominated movie, notched another top-charting album, scored hit records and sold out numerous arena concerts.

Several acts, most notably McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Toby Keith, are annual no-shows in the entertainer final nominee pool while retaining spots near the top of country music visibility and profitability rankings.
“The CMA is 100 percent industry-voted, and if for any reason the industry has a bur under its blanket for you, you’re not going to pull those votes in,” Jessen said. “That said, I haven’t had anybody in the business come up to me and say anything negative about Tim McGraw, and I’ve been working in this town the entire time he’s been having hit records. When you’re a standalone record company like Tim’s label, there’s a mathematical disadvantage to that if you don’t have a big voting block to vote for you.”

The west coast-based Academy of Country Music Awards is a fan-voted show, but grabbing nominations and awards there involves galvanizing supporters online. McGraw’s fan base is geared more to ticket-buying than to Internet excitement.

In any case, McGraw is now working on his final studio album for Curb, after which he plans to part with the label. He has yet to decide his next label move, but he’ll mostly likely insist on a situation that allows him more freedom to determine which songs will be radio singles.

“I almost hate for somebody to know my career just by what’s on the radio,” he said. “A lot of times, that’s not your best music. Maybe it’s your most commercial music, but not necessarily the best. I’ve fought to put out things that might not be big commercial hits, but they ended up being impactful. ‘Drugs or Jesus’ was only the teens on the chart, but I get a lot of comments about that song.”  Warren has watched McGraw attempt to move forward as an artist and as a person, while industry concerns sometimes tugged at his sleeve.

“People have tried to get him to release songs that are more like ‘I Like It, I Love It,’” Warren said. “And he could do that, and it could work. But he’ll say, ‘My fans have already heard that from me, and I don’t want them to have to buy the same thing. He tries to grow, and as friends outside of our careers we’ve all tried to grow as people. He’s a lot more focused in some ways, but at the same time he’s more laid back now. He wants to do what’s right.”

Tim McGraw’s first film appearance, playing Sheriff Cliff Powers in Rick Schroeder’s iffy 2004 movie, Black Cloud, was the cinematic equivalent of his first country single, 1992’s unpopular “Welcome To The Club.” But McGraw soon found his way as an actor.

“Maybe getting better in acting is getting more comfortable, and I’m definitely that,” he said.

McGraw fared much better in 2004’s Friday Night Lights, in which he played a bombastic football coach. Here are some other acting highlights:
• Flicka, 2006: McGraw played a concerned father in this family film.
• Four Christmases, 2007: McGraw had a supporting role in this movie, which also featured Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek.
• The Blind Side, 2009: McGraw won praise for his role as Sean Tuohy, a father who takes a struggling young athlete into the family. Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her role as wife Leigh Ann Tuohy.
McGraw’s upcoming films include Love Don’t Let Me Down, in which he plays Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband and manager, and Dirty Girl, which stars Milla Jovovich.

Marty Matell

'The Year' Official Album Launch Announced

Brock Country has announced an official launch event of his debut album 'The Year'. The launch is scheduled for Saturday the 24th of July 2010 at the A&I Hall in the northern NSW town of Bangalow. The announcement comes as the hotly anticipated music video clip to 'The Year' single is released on YouTube. Filmed in Pokataroo, Collarenebri, and Coonamble, in outback NSW, the upbeat drought-breaker is expected to broadcast on Country Music Channel (CMC) Australia in the coming month.

Fans and special guests at the official launch will be treated to live performances including Brock Country and his band (Richie Gudgeon, Randall Wilson, Craig Rowe, and Rachael Kennedy), an acoustic Brock Country solo, with support from Gloucester based band The Bowdy Boys. The launch will also feature exclusive behind the scenes footage from the music video featuring Brock Country's band, cast, and crew.

'The Year' has been quick to grab the attention of country music listeners and industry with a reviewer from the popular Capital Country News Magazine stating simply, “If you like your country hot and exciting this album is a must”.

Event Details
Saturday 24 July 2010
A & I Hall, Station Street, Bangalow, NSW, Australia
Tickets Available from: Moshtix – see www.moshtix.com.au

Brock Country

Selling Fast, Get In Early To Avoid Disappointment.

Oz Country Music Festival
Be part of
Fiji’s First Country Music Festival

Featuring
John Williamson, Bill Chambers, Felicity Urquhart & Glen Hannah, Jonah’s Road, Ashleigh Dallas Band and more to be announced.

August 1st – 7th 2010
Cost from $2299.00 per person

Twin Share includes:
Return Airfares from Sydney
Return transfers, 7 nights at a 4 Star Resort in Fiji
All Meals, Country Music Festival Tickets
Nightly entertainment, Firewalking Show
Welcome cocktail party
Canapes every afternoon during happy hour
Free Scuba Lesson, Free Snorkel Hire and more.

For more details call Country Music Holidays 1300 799 987

Michelle Costigan & Jenny Haslem

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