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Hands of Fame Roll of Renown, the Tamworth Pro Rodeo and several others. It was also the year that a great tradition within the festival was born – the buskers of Peel Street. This month the streets of Tamworth will come to life between the dates of January 17 and 26. The pinnacle of the festival comes on the last Saturday in January each year with the red carpet event - the Golden Guitar Awards. Recognised as one of the top ten music festivals in the world, celebrities, hopefuls and just plain music-lovers alike all congregate to celebrate country music, meet up with friends and have a true blue good time. Stroll along Peel Street and listen to some of the best country musician hopefuls from all over Australia. You’ll hear some amazing voices, singing everything from favourite old Slim Dusty covers to original songs. Big names like Kasey Chambers, Keith Urban and Troy Cassar-Daley are just some names you’ll recognise who once nervously opened their voices and hearts up for the crowds on Peel Street. Around 55,000 visitors turn up every year, and while some locals may find it an inconvenience not to be able to find a park directly outside their favourite shop, Tamworth rejoices at the influx of people for ten days each year. Before the days of the festival, locals used to head to the coast every January to escape the heat and occasional summer flood, as ‘nothing much happened between Christmas and the schools going back in February’. The Tamworth Country Music Festival changed all that, and put the town on the map in a big way. And while locals breathe a sigh of relief when the thousands of extra visitors leave at the end, they wouldn’t give up their festival for the world. If you want to find out more information about the 2014 Tamworth Country Music Festival, you can look online at www.tamworthcountrymusic.com. au, with new updates and information continually being added in the lead up to this year’s event. Images: [Left] Keith Urban [Middle] Lee Kernaghan [Right] Adam Harvey and Troy Cassar-Daley.    

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Like wow! The are coming to town By Laura Sykes It isn’t often that a band maintains chart-topping success for three decades, but for the Hoodoo Gurus, its par for the course as they prepare to take the stage yet again at The Gum Ball Music Festival this year. Held at ‘Dashville’, the Johnston family’s bushland estate located at Belford in the Hunter Valley; the festival is now in its tenth year and has worked its way up from the bottom to become one of the area’s sweetest boutique music showcases. Live entertainment The 11 and 12 of April will see Belford come alive as music groups and fans AY HO ILW TE every Sunday from alike flock to the area. The Hoodoo Gurus are just one of several bands and A L musicians who will be entertaining crowds over the two-day festival. R 4.30pm to 8.30pm Food served from 6pm - 8pm The group began as Le Hoodoo Gurus in the early 1980s when they Full TAB and Keno facilities recorded their debut single, Leilani, and the journey took flight. Three relocated musicians - , Roddy Radalj and Restaurant – teamed up with -based to play a rooftop party in MUSWELLBROOK Lunch Wed - Fri (12pm - 2pm) Dinner Mon - Fri (6pm - 8.30pm) Sin City on New Year’s morning in 1981. Since then, despite a few changes to the group’s members, the Hoodoo Gurus have gone from strength to   +  E strength. Rendall moved on to the film industry, while Radalj formed another band. joined the crew on guitar, Clyde Bramley contributed January 26 (Australia Day) – Clayton Crosby his incredible skills as a bassist and Mark Kingsmith took over duties as a February 2 – Ryan Sampson drummer. Bramley was later replaced by Rick Grossman and the resulting February 9 – KYDA line up still stands today. Courtesy bus is available The opening track from debut , , set the stage Market Street Muswellbrook 02 6543 1061 for thirty years of continued chart-toppers and sold out tours, the band’s breakup and then powerball comeback. 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She is also responsible for the art curriculum. Vivienne teaches drawing lessons to both children and adults, and continues to be inspired by the smallest of things around her in Newcastle. She has been in Newcastle for fifteen years concentrating on changing urban and industrial landscapes. She was trained at East Sydney Tech in the 1960s, and then moved to Fiji for the next ten years. A major influence on her work is David Hockney’s drawings of streets, buildings and vegetables. Nelson is inspired by looking at shadows and boundaries, as well as looking at spaces between objects. Vivienne Nelson likes to rearrange elements of our world and create negative spaces and patterns. Nelson’s 2013 exhibition Fences documented some fenced and some fenced-off buildings in Newcastle. She was interested in the formation of shapes and patterns that hurricane fences imitated. Continued page 5

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Festive market was a real Christmas cracker The recent Scone Festive and Summer Homegrown and Handmade Market has been hailed a huge success. “The new market venue - the Uniting Church in Main Street – proved a terrific venue,” says market organiser Amelia Wilkinson. “Forty stallholders were in attendance and the market was well attended with many people looking to grab last minute Christmas presents.” A local creations fashion parade co-ordinated by fashion partner Marcody was well received by market goers as were the Homegrown and Handmade workshops: How to make a Christmas apron presented by Deb Fergusonn from Sew Scone and Seasonal Gardening Tips presented by Lynda Posa from new Murrurundi based nursery Plants on Pages. Live music was provided by Gillian Miles on piano and singer/performer Tori Vines whilst PowerFM were on site doing an outside broadcast from 9am. A total of $800 was raised for Scone’s Magic Garden Project from a market raffle and $5 donated from every market stall courtesy of The EVENT Storeroom plus part proceeds from rides at Saturday’s market with Valley to Vineyard Trikes. The raffle was drawn by Chris from Scone Home Timber & Hardware Scone with first prize - an outdoor timber bench setting valued at over $600 donated by Scone Timber Hardware & Roberts and Roberts Construction – being won by Sandra Windsor. Second prize - an event hire voucher valued at $300 donated by The Event Storeroom - was won by Victoria Austin. Plans are already underway for a bumper 2014 Festive Summer Scone Homegrown and Handmade Market. All images courtesy Katrina Partridge Photography.

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Watch out - Canine Cliff Ellis a true blue Parvo is about! Hunter Valley horseman By Brian Russell By Candace Russo - Pet Medical There is still a concerning number of dogs from Thousands will have fond memories of Cliff Ellis, one of the Christmas and New Year that are dying from Parvo. Hunter Valley’s most respected horsemen who passed Parvo is a normally fatal canine gastrointestinal away at Scone on the night of December 30, three days virus. Muswellbrook and surrounding suburbs hold after his 87th birthday. For a quarter of a century until the record for having one of the highest incidences his retirement from the saddle in 2011, he was one of of Parvo in NSW. Last week we had a dog not up the leaders on horseback in the annual Horse Festival to date with his vaccinations that was vomiting and parade at Scone in May each year, an imposing fi gure, the had diarrhoea. He tested positive to the disease and epitome of the horseman and of the history of the horse pulled through treatment but was critically ill for over in the Hunter Valley; a region in which he lived all his life. a week in hospital. Denman born and raised on the family’s dairy farm between that town and Jerrys Plains, Cliff was the second youngest of fi ve children of a great The dog had not left his owner’s property and had not been grandson of Thomas Ellis, a stockman who migrated from Devon in England introduced to any other dogs. The virus is highly-contagious, being in 1837 to manage the settlement established at Jerrys Plains under the commonly transferred via people’s hands, shoes, bags and clothes. name of Arrowfi eld - now home for thoroughbred breeding giant Coolmore, Dog-to-dog contact is not necessary for infection. by one of the Upper Hunter’s foremost pioneers, George Bowman. Supermarket disinfectant used to clean clothes, house surfaces or Cliff had eminent pioneer pastoralists on both sides as his mother your dog’s belongings does not kill the virus; therefore you need a descended from John Wood, a commodities broker who moved special product stocked only by to in 1818. He squatted on 180,000 acres of country vets. which he called Brundah Station southwest of what is Cowra.The town of As it is impossible to clean every Grenfel is on Brundah. surface, vaccination is essential. John Wood was also one of the fathers of the Australian thoroughbred. In We vets hate seeing dogs die from particular, he imported mares from Chile in South America which became this 100% preventable disease. the foundation of the horse breeding stock on Brundah and which no When you buy a puppy, take it to doubt can be found in some modern horses with colonial heritage. your vet to receive all three Parvo booster vaccinations which should Educated at a small bush school, Cliff Ellis, because of the shortage of start at 6 – 8 weeks of age. From labour owing to the war, went to work on the dairy farm at 14 years of age. then on, it is a simple and quick Fortunately for the horse world, the farm was sold in 1949 and he began yearly vaccination. more than fi fty years involvement following a love of the thoroughbred. Image: Candace Russo and friend. The fi rst twenty were in the historic Widden Valley, the fi rst four breaking in and educating horses under Bill Harris at his family’s Holbrook, then the home for the very good imported sire Persian Book. The balance was with the Flynns,Tom and his managing son Ross, at neighbouring Oakleigh and also Emu Vale, a holding accessed through the Widden Stud. It was  managed for a time by Cliff.   An outstanding source of good horses for over half a century in the pet   ownership of Herbert Thompson, a member of the Widden Stud pioneer medical family, Oakleigh was developed through the efforts of Ross Flynn and Cliff www.petmedical.com.au Ellis from the early 1950s into one of Australia’s most upmarket studs with the top sire being the importation Red Gauntlet. SCONE MUSWELLBROOK They pioneered modern methods of preparing yearlings for sale embracing DENMAN feeding and handling from weaning and sale grooming which are practised by most major vendors today. In presentation the Oakleigh yearlings, many Phone 6544 3201 of them shown in the ring by Cliff Ellis, were the jewels of the Inglis Easter Owner with her dog. sales in the 1960s. Scone Pet Parade 24 hour/7 day 2012 Big moments in the life of Cliff Ellis while at Oakleigh included the win of emergency service a horse he bred and sold, the Jack Green (Sydney) trained Hua gelding available Continued page 9 Experience. Sound advice. Positive outcomes. We think that just about covers it! MUSWELLBROOK  Market House ~ 4 Market Street Muswellbrook NSW 2333  02 6542 5566  02 6543 4397

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Johnno in track record time in the 1959 Scone Cup – total prize money $1,550, his marriage to Jenifer Crockett in 1961 and his topping of the fourth day (small vendors) of the 1962 Easter sale with a Pirate King half-brother to Johnno. The price of 3,000 guineas ($6,300) was good money at the time. Johnno, by the way, became a celebrity again when, after being caught up in a major flood on the Hawkesbury, he swam some considerable distance to safety and was found sheltering on the verandah of a house. The Ellis family Cliff, Jen and their then 5-year-old son Tim, left the remoteness of Widden Valley in 1971 and he became the stud manager for England born Major James Mitchell, the owner of Yarraman Park, a stud farm at Scone which he acquired from famous jockey George Moore. Yarraman Park flourishes today under the management of Major Mitchell’s sons Arthur and Harry. The wisdom of Cliff Ellis was very valuable for young horseman learning their trade at Yarraman Park. Two who went on to prominence as trainers are Guy Walter, a number-one Sydney trainer, and Murray Johnson. Murray flies the flag for Australia in America, a country in which one of his runners, Perfect Drift, finished third in the Kentucky Derby. A great joy for Cliff and Jenifer was entrusting into their care for foaling down and walking into a sire in 1994 of Sandy Tait’s and Jill Nivison’s Whiskey Road mare Whisked. A son of the Blushing Groom sire Nassipour, the foal subsequently raced as the gelded Tie the Knot out of the Guy Walter stables at Warwick Farm, winning 21 races,13 Group1s, and earning $6,212,835. He was one of a number of good horses delivered by Ellis after they left Yarraman Park and established an agistment complex Kingdon Farm, at Parkville near Scone, in 1979. The primary focus was the preparation and care of client’s mares, growing their offspring and marketing yearlings. In1983 yearlings prepared by Cliff Ellis topped not only the individual price, but also the aggregate price at the Easter Sale. They also stood the sires Piccolino, Sungazer and Blazing Ruler and for about a dozen years Cliff lectured on the horse industry at the Scone TAFE. Retired to Scone in 2000, Cliff Ellis was a major contributor to Scone racing and breeding administration your local club for a quarter of a century. He served on the race club committee for many years and was a foundation committee member of the Hunter Valley Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association. He was so highly respected, in 1987 he was awarded the Hunter Valley Bloodhorse Breeders Service Scone Jump Club to Industry Award, and in 1999 was the Scone and Upper Hunter Horse Festival VIP. He was also Marcia 0407 403 802 [email protected] made a Life Member of the Scone Race Club. www.sconehorsetrials.com.au Cliff Ellis is survived by Jenifer, his wife for over fifty years, their son Timothy and his wife Rebecca, Upper Hunter Riding for the Disabled “the daughter he always wanted.” Pres: Chris Hayes (02) 6541 3847 A funeral service conducted at St Luke’s Anglican Church Scone on Tuesday January 7 was followed Anne-Marie Williams [email protected] by private cremation. Riding & carriage driving: Muswellbrook centre Image: Cliff Ellis (1926 – 2013), 2005 Scone Horse Festival Parade – an imposing Tuesdays and Thursdays (3rd and 4th school terms). Open to all children and adults with figure, the epitome of the horsemen and of the horse history of the Hunter a disability. Volunteers welcomed and always Valley. needed. Look for us on FaceBook.

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Cinema under the Stars By Zack Phillips In 2014 the Cinema Under the Stars program will continue with its biggest season yet! The program visits towns all over Australia to screen some of the latest movies. Beginning in 2008, it has become bigger each year attracting over 20,000 people each season. This is a free outdoor cinema which is held during the spring/summer in many towns throughout New South Wales. The focus is on providing local communities with free, family-friendly events with a mix of blockbuster-family movies and entertainment by local groups. In 2014 the program will run in over twenty locations and has hit titles playing throughout the evenings. The cinema will be around the Hunter in three different locations this summer. On January 18, Despicable Me 2 will be screened at King Edward Park, Reserve Road, Newcastle. On January 31, Monsters University will be screened at Turner Park, Aberdare Road, Cessnock. On February 1, Wreck it Ralph will be screened at Highbrook Park, Ironbark Road, Muswellbrook. Gates will open at 5:30pm for an 8pm start. A small amount of food and drinks will be available on the night, but you can bring your own picnic if you would choose. You can bring low beach chairs, cushions, blankets and rugs to sit on. Entry is free so if you’re looking for a night to spend with family and friends, head to the website to find out when the Cinema Under the Stars will visit your town. Visit www.newcastlepermanent.com.au/Community/ Cinemaunderthestats/tabid/450/Default.aspx

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By Zack Phillips On 17 January 2014, the Johnny Cash Tribute Band will GIG GUIDE be performing at the Muswellbrook District Workers Club Muswellbrook District Workers Club White Hart Hotel, Murrurundi prior to heading to the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Friday 17 January Friday 31 January ‘CASH ONLY’ Show Karaoke @ 8pm This will be a free show that will start at 8:30pm on the The Johnny Cash Tribute Band @ Free admission night. 8.30pm Railway Hotel, Muswellbrook Free show in the main lounge Sunday 2 February In 2006, Cash Only formed and became Sydney’s premier Johnny Cash White Hart Hotel, Murrurundi Ryan Sampson @ 4.30 pm Tribute Band. They created a show that is suitable for all ages and covers Saturday 18 January Free admission all the aspects of Johnny Cash’s career. Good Corn Liquor @ 8pm White Hart Hotel, Murrurundi Free admission Johnny Cash began his career in Louisiana, with numerous duets with the Saturday 8 February Royal Hotel, Muswellbrook Jimmy Craz Band @ 8pm love of his life, June Carter Cash, and all the hits up to and including the Friday 24 January Free admission American recordings. Funked Up Friday Railway Hotel, Muswellbrook ‘Fairdinkum Aussie Party’ Cash Only provides live entertainment at its best. The band is passionate Sunday 9 February with DJ Animal @ 8pm KYDA @ 4.30pm about performing and they offer a professional service to deliver a unique Railway Hotel, Muswellbrook Free admission atmosphere of entertainment. Sunday 26 January (Australia Day) White Hart Hotel, Murrurundi Don’t miss the great night of entertainment with The Johnny Cash Tribute Clayton Crosby @ 4.30pm Saturday 15 February Free admission Band at the Muswellbrook District Workers Club on Friday 17 January, and Chris White @ 8pm White Hart Hotel, Murrurundi Free admission will also be performing at the Tamworth Country Music festival for various Sunday 26 January (Australia Day shows. For further enquiries contact the club on 6543 2011 or visit their Fat Man Don’t Dance @ 5pm website www.muswellbrookworkers.com.au/events/event/cash-only- Free admission tribute-show/ Image: Cash Only band members. Join the FREE New-Trition Active Fit Camp 4-Week Challenge

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