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Accommodation Tamworth News
Your Guide To The Festival
Thursday January 15, 2009
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Many events at the Tamworth Country Music Festival are free.Going Going Gone
Saturday August 9, 2008
Newcastle radio presenter John Clarke and wife Margaret have set out to share their love of France and its food. You can join them through French Chateau Stays from November 16 to 26 for seven or 10 days in south-west France. Available to just 10 guests, the trip costs $4500 per person for seven days or $6000 for 10 (land only) including accommodation, in-house meals, wine and sightseeing. See www.frenchchateaustays.com.au.Nashville Beckons Young Stranger With Stars In His Eyes
Sunday January 27, 2008
MARK WELLS arrived at the country music festival in Tamworth a stranger in a sea of cowboy hats and twanging guitars.Mum's Home A Motel
Thursday January 17, 2008
A LACK of available accommodation in the Hunter's tightest rental market in 20 years has caused a Lake Macquarie woman to temporarily call a motel room home.Birds Given A Council Snake-up
Wednesday November 21, 2007
EVER since Tamworth Council tried to beautify its town centre with new trees, hordes of nesting starlings have done their best to deface it.Hamlet With A Heart
Saturday October 27, 2007
City slicker Rachel Smith falls in love with an old goldmining town that's just a hop, skip and a jump from Tamworth.Music Festival Puts City On Map
Friday July 6, 2007
TAMWORTH is a vibrant, prospering, beautiful regional city with about 38,000 people living in it, working across a diverse range of occupations, including agricultural, industrial, aeronautical, medical and many other fields.Meet Me At The Oasis
Saturday February 24, 2007
Retreat at Froog-Moore Park, TamworthPerfectly Natural
Saturday January 20, 2007
It's impossible to take the country girl out of Felicity Urquhart. Since picking up a guitar at 10 the former Tamworth lass, now based on the Central Coast, has remained delightfully down to earth, as BEN QUINN finds.Grand Ambitions On The Hoof
Saturday July 15, 2006
TAMWORTH'S ambition to challenge the Upper Hunter as horse capital of Australia has been renewed with a proposed multimillion-dollar horse and livestock centre.It Ain't All Boots And Missing Teeth
Wednesday February 2, 2005
Tamworth is coming to the big smoke and Sara Storer wants to change how people view country music, writes Sophie Best.Learning To Polish Their Lyrics Instead Of Their Boots
Monday January 17, 2005
Where does an aspiring country music star hone the rebel yell? The Country Music College in Tamworth, naturally.
"They teach you how to get just the right 'yee-hah'," joked Mellissa Baker, 21, who yesterday graduated from the college, run by the Country Music Association of Australia since 1997.A Nice Twang
Sunday January 20, 2002
They are toe-tapping in Tamworth this weekend Rob Woodburn reports on the annual festival.Music Lovers Making Tracks For Tamworth
Sunday January 20, 2002
To borrow a line from country music singer Kasey Chambers, it's a case of: ``Clear that track, we're coming on down the line."A Model Town, But Where's The Pool?
Monday February 19, 2001
It was a little like the arrival Santa Claus, bearing a bag of gifts of everything except the present that you really wanted. Yesterday, the NSW Premier visited a model Aboriginal community, Walhallow, near Tamworth, and announced a $20,000 State Government grant to make a video alerting the world about what a model Aboriginal community it is.Tamworth - Historic By Day, Country By Night
Saturday November 11, 2000
ANDREW THURTELL strapped on his boots, grabbed his guitar and headed for inland NSW to find Tamworth's hidden secrets. IN 1973, the city of Tamworth hosted the first Australian Country Music Awards. They were so successful, they quickly became one of the most popular events of any kind in AustralTamworth Hotel With A Country And Western Beat
Wednesday August 23, 2000
An icon of Tamworth, Joe Maguire's Pub, has been placed on the market. The hotel, which features prominently during the annual Country and Western Music Festival, is named after Joe Maguire, who built it in 1916. He operated the hotel until 1957, when his wife, and then son, took over. It was Rug Up And Hoe Down
Sunday May 28, 2000
Country music fans have another reason to visit Tamworth, writes Susan Jarvis. REGULARS at the Tamworth Country Music Festival know the blistering January heat, summer downpours and a constant search for shade. They often wonder what Tamworth's like in winter. Now festival organisers are givinTania's Riding High, Thanks
Sunday January 23, 2000
BEING told she looks like the side of a bus won't bother country star Tania Kernaghan one bit at this year's Tamworth Country Music Festival. Tania's image has been plastered all over the official festival bus, with the slogan ``Ride with Tania" a reference to one of her recent hits, When Clint Will Keep Battling On
Saturday June 19, 1999
WHO'D be a parent? You're like a football coach. You get the blame if things go bad and no thanks if things go well. Country singer Clint Beattie wonders how his parents persevered with him. The Tamworth Golden Guitar winner of a few years ago remembers how they despaired of his early childhoo