 Horsham Country Music Festival 2008
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What an exciting 4 days it was. We arrived in Horsham at around
5pm.Friends Helen Quin, and Alison Smith helped me
throughout the festival.Friday morning we headed off to the Plaza to watch many
of the very talented walk up artists and stayed throught the show before heading
off to see Horsham.A great friendly Country town.
We were joined later
by,Kerrie Archibald and Roz Webb
members of the Avalanche band that gave me nice harmonies at the
festival.
Thursday evening after tea we set off to
see the great sound shell we had heard so much about to meet
up with Lyal Wheaton,he was to show us around the venues
where our performances were being
held.
Friday afternoon we ventured down to
Roberts Place in the centre of town to enjoy more walk up artists through out
the afternoon
The Sound Shell was the
highlight of the venue’s ,lit was up at night with the coloured lights
blending into the shell was a sight to see a photo displayed
in this write up shows how beautiful it was. My first
performance was at in
the
Golden Oldies Tribute, as Dolly Parton, Dolly came out well in front singing
most of Dolly’s own compositions. like Coat of Many
Colours,Applejack,Joline and many
more. The more the crowd cheered the more I
performed
Other artists
in the tribute were:
Anne Conway as Patsy Cline Slim Conners Slim Dusty Stephen R Cheney John
Denver Dave Prior Johnny Cash
with Shady Deal as our backing
band. (A brilliant Band.)
Laura Downing Rodney
Vincent Cameron Mason
Anne Conway
Floreena Forbes Slim
Conners Stephen R Cheney Allan Carrol Brianne Lee
All the
artists put on a wonderful performance and were given great
applause after each act.
To look out and see all the fans
of country music filling the venue proves country music will always be
here to stay, they showed their excitement by buying our CD’s and wanting to
talk after our performances. and singing along with the
music.
The
evening finished at 9pm we headed back to the Westlander Motel were we met up
again with Kerrie and Roz out came the guitars and we had lots of fun going over
our songs for the next day after a lot of laughter and sips of coffee we went to
bed at 1am.
Morning Muster :After rising early, I was to compare the morning show in
the middle of town at a place called Roberts
Place. The show kicked off with the Bootscooters showing
their style between 9.10am organised by the Horsham Bootscooters and Bootscooters
from other parts of Victoria and NSW joined in followed 3 hours of Australian
music by a variety of country music artists including Bendigo’s Anne Conway singing several of her Australian songs she perfects so well .
The show finished
off with Kerrie, Roz and myself singing our selection of Australian songs.
We moved on to have lunch then headed off to the Sound
Shell once more to appear as myself “Floreena (not Dolly ) “This time I sang
many country classics with Kerrie and Roz with their
harmonies.
Backing Band Shady Deal.
Appeared with the crowd tapping their toes,clapping their
hands wanting more they were a highlight of the festival for sure.
We then stayed behind and enjoyed the show listening to
all the other acts. till the close of the program
Neil McArthur Don
Mitchell
Sunday morning heading to the end of the festival Neil McArthur and Don
Mitchell with their poetry and humour, put a smile on everybody face, then all
the artists were called to the stage singing 3 songs each all singing together
at the closing “I am Australian with Anne Conway leading us
all.”
The crowd was fantastic cheering us on for more. The
show closed at 1pm. at the Sound Shell.
That was the end of a great 3 days at the 1st Horsham
Country Music Festival we headed for home feeling pleased that the festival was
a great success and are looking forward to returning again next year.My
congratulations to the festival organisers for such a well run event and we
encourage everybody to make each year bigger again
Floreena
Check out the Horsham Country Music Festival web
site
horshamcountrymusic.com.au/
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Horsham Country Music Festival 2007
