Roma, Qld. invites you to a fun filled festival for all. The famous Goat Races, Street Parade. Drag Racing, Motor Cross and a Mud Derby. The Night Rodeo is one of the biggest and best in Queensland. Country Music Concert, Art Show, Antiques and Collectibles Fair, Country Markets, Race Meeting at Bassett Park, a Nostalgia Day at Mt Abundance Homestead, Open Gardens and the Monster Cabaret.
SONGS & POEMS
FROM THE STORYTELLER, FROM
BARD TO BALLADEER AND POEMS BLACKLISTED
[CLICK ON TRACK TO PLAY]
BROOKS AND MAGEE
SING THREE OF MY SONGS THE ROSE FROM THE
GARDEN - HARD HAT HEROES AND AUSTRALIA'S
BECKONING CALL
SONG
WRITING AWARDS
2005
Northern
Territory "Country Song
Writer’s Awards"
*2005 Lyrics Only - One of five finalists with 'Chasing Buttons'
*2005
Overall
Winner Lyrics Only Section
'Chasing Buttons'
2006
Northern Territory
"Country Song Writer’s
Awards"
*2006
Lyrics Only - One
of five finalists with
'Granddad's Crusty Damper'
*2006
Overall Winner Lyrics Only
Section 'Granddad's Crusty
Damper'
2008
Northern Territory
"Country Song Writer’s
Awards"
*2008
Lyrics Only - One
of five finalists with 'How Two Boys Lived Their Dream'
TAMWORTH
SONGWRITER'S
ASSOCIATION
The
Tamworth Songwriters' Association Inc. is an Australasian-wide
association of Songwriters. Its headquarters are in Tamworth ,
but it has branches wherever a sufficient number of members
have been able to get together and its interests are truly
nation-wide. It has no paid staff and is operated solely by
volunteers. Its orientation is towards Country Music, but it
embraces Australasian writers of all fields.
TAMWORTH SONGWRITERS' ASSOCIATION INC.
PO Box 618 TAMWORTH NSW 2340
President's address:
PO Box 1202, YOUNG NSW 2594
Phone Vicki Walsh on (02) 6382 3035
E-mail vickirg@austarnet.com.au or tsa@tpgi.com.au
Web http://www.tsaonline.com.au/
2006
T.S.A. National Country Songwriting Awards
*Finalist Lyrics Only
section "Chasing Buttons" *Finalist Lyrics Only section "The
Maintop Balladeer" * Finalist Lyrics Only section "Flowers on a
Friday"
*Overall Winner Lyrics Only section "The Maintop
Balladeer"
2006
S.E. QLD. T.S.A. Country Songwriting Awards
*Finalist
- Lyrics Only section "Flowers on a
Friday" *Finalist and 2nd
Lyrics
Only section "I Wish I Were a Crocodile" *Finalist and 3rd
Lyrics Only section "Son Play another Coster
Song"
John and Eleanor
Briskey Sundown Records
2007
T.S.A. National Country Songwriting Awards
*Finalist Lyrics Only section "Keeping the
Culture" * Finalist Lyrics Only section "That
Motel Whiskey Dream" *Finalist Lyrics Only section "So
Many Roadside Epitaphs" *Finalist Lyrics Only section "I
wish I Were A Crocodile"
*Overall Winner Lyrics Only section "I Wish I
Were a Crocodile"
2008
T.S.A. National Country Songwriting Awards
*Finalist Lyrics Only section "The Lady in
the Locket" * Finalist Lyrics Only section "How Two
Boys Lived Their Dream"
The
Australian Bush Laureate Awards were instigated in 1995 to
recognise excellence in published and recorded Australian bush
poetry.
SIX
TIME FINALISTS
1998
2000
2000
2002
2004
2006
NEW CD 'THE
STORYTELLER' AUS. $25.00 PLUS
P&H
9 TRACKS OF ORIGINAL BALLAD SONGS
AND 6 TRACKS OF BUSH POETRY
1. Boondooma's
Balladeer
2. So Many Roadside Epitaphs
3. The Oriental Cure
4. The Ballad of Faylene Anderson
5. Bluey's Reflections
6. The Wallet
7. Old Jacko in the City
8. Flowers on a Friday
9. Keeping the Culture
10.Something For Our Stevie
11.Caravanning Mayhem
12.That Motel Whiskey Dream
13.The Lady in the Locket
14.The Payday Dilemma
15.Where's the Water Gone?
CLICK
ON BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION
EP/CD ' AUS. $15.00 PLUS
P&H
7 TRACKS SUNG AND
PLAYED AS TRADITIONAL BUSH BALLADS,
1. SON PLAY ANOTHER COSTER SONG
2. R.M. WILLIAMS - A MAN WHO HAD TRIED
3. THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE [TRIBUTE SOPHIE DELEZIO]
4.I NEVER CRIED FOR ELVIS BUT I SHED A TEAR FOR SLIM
5.GRANDDAD'S CRUSTY DAMPER
6.CHASING BUTTONS
7.THE MAINTOP BALLADEER
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ON BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION
KEEPING THE
CULTURE - 100 PAGE BOOK OF VERSE AND YARNS AUS. $15.00 PLUS
P&H
BUSH
LAUREATE FINALIST
2007
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ON BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION
FAMILY
ENTERTAINMENT CD - PULL UP A STUMP AND LISTEN! AUS. $20.00 PLUS P&H