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DAILY UPDATE
Day One - Friday January 18 2019
Dan Murphy and Murphy's Law at West Diggers 12pm.
FRIDAY, 18 JANUARY 2019
* Indicates a free gig
* 6:30am Breakfast & Live Entertainment - Wrap
'N' Roll Cafe & Takeaway
7:45am Big Breaky Show with Lucy Lemann, Er-
nie Johns, Peter Hulme, Karla Clancy & Venessa
Waara - Red Cross Hall
* 8:00am Brendan Nawrocki Breakfast Show
with special guests - Nundle Guitars
* 8:00am Kate Hindle - Paradise Tourist Park
* 8:00am Pete Denahy Bluegrass & Comedy -
West Tamworth League Club (Wests) - Legends
Lounge
* 8:00am Pop Up Information Centre Opens - Fes-
tival HQ - Peel Street
* 8:30am Ballads & Belly Laughs with Darren
Carr and the Cowpats - Wests' Diggers - Scores
Sports Bar
9:00am Banjo & Henry presented by Peter Coad
OAM & The Coad Sisters with special guest Ray
Essery - Balladeers Homestead - Salvation Army
Centre - Auditorium
* 9:00am Evan Platschinda - Peel Street -
Outside RB Sellers
9:00am Explore Tamworth's place in national
history at Australia's only dedicated electrical
museum - Tamworth Powerstation Museum
9:00am Mid Morning Country with Paul Siels,
Gwen Kehl, Kylie Castle & Michael Clare - Red
Cross Hall
* 9:00am Peter Smokie Dawson - Peel Street -
Outside Bupa
* 9:00am Phoebe Jay Kix Country Radio Live
Interview - Cnr Peel & Fitzroy Street
* 9:30am Paul Costa - Tamworth Shoppingworld
- Festival Stage
* 10:00am Ali Shield & Bek Thornton - The DAG
Sheep Station, Nundle - Live on the Deck
* 10:00am Emerging Artist Showcase - Regional
Kristy James lights up the Pig and Tinder at 5pm.
Australia Bank FamilyZone - Stage
* 10:00am Felicity Kircher Regional Australian
Bank (RAB) Showcase - Regional Australia Bank
FamilyZone - Stage
* 10:00am Marge Graham - Oasis Hotel-Motel -
Main Bar Lounge
10:00am Regional Australia Bank FamilyZone
(open till 9pm) - Regional Australia Bank
FamilyZone - Stage
* 10:00am Songwriters Sessions - Post Office
Hotel
* 10:00am Songwriters Sing with Trinity
Woodhouse, Ian Wilkinson, Maddi Lyn & Peter
Campbell - Square Man Inn - Alfresco Dining
Beer Garden
* 10:00am Then Jolene - Longyard Hotel - Front
Deck
* 10:00am Toyota 4x4 Drive Experience (open till
5pm) - Toyota Park (Bicentennial Park)
10:00am Toyota Hat Promotion - Toyota Zone -
Fitzroy St near Kable Ave
* 10:15am Pete Smith - Peel Street - Outside
Hotbread Kitchen
* 10:15am Tyson Lucas - Tamworth Shopping-
world - Festival Stage
* 10:30am Rough Stock - Tudor Hotel - Front Bar
10:30am The Rhymers Roundup with Gregory
North, The Rhymer from Ryde, Rhonda Tall-
nash, John Peel, Noel Bull & special guest Pat
Drummond - North Tamworth Bowling Club
- Auditorium
* 10:30am The Whiskey Mountain Boys - Court-
house Hotel - Front Bar
* 11:00am Artist In-store Meet & Greet - Nundle
Guitars
* 11:00am Bobby Howson - Tamworth City
Bowling Club
* 11:00am Elisa Massari - Oasis Hotel-Motel -
Main Bar Lounge
Thursday January 31, 2019 PLAYBOOKS
Gretta ziller will be among the guests at Richo's Roundup
11am , The DAG Sheep Station, Nundle .
* 11:00am Johanna Hemara - Tamworth Shop-
pingworld - Festival Stage
* 11:00am Launch of the new home of the famous
Bronze Busts - Pioneers' Parade
* 11:00am Legends Long Lunch with Daniel
Thompson, Mike Carr, Anthony Taylor & Luke
Austen - West Tamworth League Club (Wests) -
Legends Lounge
* 11:00am Mariah Jayne - Regional Australia
Bank FamilyZone - Stage
* 11:00am Phoebe Jay's Free Air Single Launch
with Barlight Duo, Becci Nethery, Maddi Lyn and
Aly Cook - Family Hotel - Moonshiners Honky
Tonk Bar
11:00am Richo's Roundup with Aleyce Sim-
monds, Greg Storer, Gretta Ziller, John Krsulja,
Richo Richardson & Andrew Swift - The DAG
Sheep Station, Nundle - The Mess Hall
* 11:00am Sammy White - The Coffee & Grill Hut
Cafe
* 11:00am Star Makers & Stars Pop-Up - Toyota
Zone - Fitzroy St near Kable Ave - Truck Stage
* 11:00am Trinity Woodhouse - The Atrium -
Festival Stage
* 11:00am Zonta Queen of Country Music -
Toyota FanZone Stage - Fitzroy St near Peel
St - Stage
* 11:15am Quest Sashing - Toyota FanZone Stage
- Fitzroy St near Peel St - Stage
* 11:30am Bronze Bust Unveiling of living legend
Frank Ifield - Pioneers' Parade
* 11:30am Jessie Allen - Regional Australia Bank
FamilyZone - Stage
* 11:30am Lennie Live - Hogs Breath Cafe -
Street Stage
11:30am Lunch Time Roundup with Country
Flavor, Floreena Forbes, Kerrie Johns, Malcolm
Doyle & Karla Clancy - Red Cross Hall
* 11:30am Uncle Bob's Jug Band - Imperial Brew
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House - The New Arena Stage
* 11:30am Walk-up Artists - The Atrium - Festival
Stage
* 11:30am Zonta Queen of Country Music &
Quest Sashing - Toyota FanZone Stage - Fitzroy
St near Peel St - Stage
* 11:45am Sarah Leete - Tamworth Shopping-
world - Festival Stage
* 12:00pm 2019 Toyota Star Maker Grand Finalist
Blake O'Connor - Toyota FanZone Stage - Fitzroy
St near Peel St - Stage
* 12:00pm Carly Robinson - Regional Australia
Bank FamilyZone - Stage
* 12:00pm Dan Murphy & Murphy's Law - Wests'
Diggers - Diggers Courtyard
* 12:00pm Gayle O'Neil - Oasis Hotel-Motel -
Main Bar Lounge
* 12:00pm Kevin Sullivan - Tamworth Services
Club - In The Lounge
* 12:00pm People's Choice Showcase - The
Atrium - Festival Stage
* 12:00pm Sean McMahon - The Welder's Dog
* 12:00pm Smith & Jones - The Pig & Tinder Box
- The Pig Stage
12:00pm Toyota Hat Promotion - Toyota Zone -
Fitzroy St near Kable Ave
* 12:30pm Chad Morgan - Tamworth Shopping-
world - Festival Stage
* 12:30pm Felicity Dowd - Regional Australia
Bank FamilyZone - Stage
* 12:30pm Mic Conway & Robbie Long - The
Albert Hotel - Front Bar
* 12:30pm Paul Costa - Toyota FanZone Stage -
Fitzroy St near Peel St - Stage
* 12:30pm Walk-up Artists - The Atrium - Festival
Stage
* 1:00pm Country Horizon - Oasis Hotel-Motel -
Main Bar Lounge
* 1:00pm Finnian Johnson - Hogs Breath Cafe