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James Bennett performs Giants live on air on ABC Mid North and Coffs Coast on Thursday February 11, 2016. 

James Bennett performs Giants

Lucky Zoe Laing from Warinyan Farm in the NSW Manning Valley. She's getting a red whipper snipper for Valentine's Day! Bring on Bazza.

Spicing up the Country Hour

Lee Kernaghan has described Christie Lamb as a star of the future, and this year in Tamworth the 23-year-old picked up the Golden Guitar Award for New Talent of the Year. The recognition was well earned with the young artist juggling multiple national tours over the last year with Lee Kernaghan, The Wolfe Brothers, Amber Lawrence and Aleyce Simmonds. 


2016 New Talent of the Year Christie Lamb

I finally grabbed a coffee and chat with Karl Broadie last December. We talked about becoming a 'Nundleer', farming kale & chickens, recording a new album, veganism, love & family, visiting Scotland, producing music, covering the Proclaimers, coaching songwriting, the Tamworth country music scene...  Here is the full unedited version of that interview recorded on Sunday December 6, 2015 at Bent on Food in Wingham.

Coffee with Karl Broadie

Jeff Gibson from Nundle won Best Album for Tin Dog Road and Best Song for It's Good to Know, while Tamworth's Allison Forbes received the award for Best EP for Augustine. 

Australian Roots Music Awards @ Nimbin Roots Fest.

Rural Report for Friday April 21, 2017. Tuncester dairy farmer Paul Weir on the damage done to his property by the recent floods.

Dairy farmer Paul Weir on the Rural Report

Mid North, Coffs Coast, North Coast Rural Report Thursday April 20.

Report covers flood damage to soybean and macadamia crops.

North Coast Rural Report Thursday April 20.

Imagine living on a farm where it floods every single year.  That's the case for dairy farmer Geoff Heazlewood from Latrobe in northern Tasmania. But a year ago today he experienced what was by far the biggest flood he's ever seen through the area. He and wife Anne, a fifth generation farmer on the property, were forced to evacuate and air-lifted by helicopter to safety. They lost 8 cows and 30 calves on the Jersey stud. The whole farm was under 2 metres of water. The damage bill was more than $750,000. He says the date June 6 is printed on his memory forever. (Photo: Neil Hargreaves)

Flooded Tasmanian dairy farmer one year on

It would be fair to say that Amy Nelson is in love with Australia. The Canadian country songstress from Saskatchewan is on her fifth visit here in the last 14 months, and we've embraced her. Both of her songs released so far down under, 'Ish' and 'Hey Love', have charted.

Canadian country star Amy Nelson

It's been 14 years between drinks at the Tamworth Country Music Festival for Kempsey born and bred Martin Oakes.

At 17 Martin left the dairy farm in the Macleay Valley and headed to northern Australia to work on stations breaking in horses.

It wasn't until he was 23 years old though when he picked up the guitar and learnt to play.

He was last in Tamworth in 2004 when he was up for a Golden Guitar for his bush ballad Good Cattleman, the year he says Sara Storer pretty much won everything. 

But this year Martin headed back to perform at the invite of Tom Curtain who he'd taught to play guitar many years ago.

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