Getting the most out of the Tamworth Country Music Festival
Buy the programme as soon as you arrive.
Buy the latest issues of Cap News and Country Update
for the preview articles about Tamworth.
Buy the local paper, The Northern Daily Leader.
Each day has extensive coverage of the festival,
with pictures from the day before, and a programme of the events for the day.
Look carefully for any small print or gosssip columns.
There are hot tips tucked away in the paper.
On the last Saturday the Leader publishes a "Souvenir Edition"
which is a collection of pictures for the week.
Most of the pictures have not been published in the paper.
Don't try to do too much. Just pick some things you really want to see,
enjoy your food and relax.
Go to a few different things
that are a little outside your comfort zone.
It might be a real surprize or a complete disaster for you,
but that's the only way to discover something new.
Let your friends pick things for you to go to.
The reverse of this is don't waste your time on something you simply won't enjoy.
There is so much on that it's not worth the bother.
If you don't like "world music" or whatever, then don't go to it.
Save time when reading the programme
- cross off stuff that is way outside your field of interest.
If you don't like outdoor concerts and big crowds,
then don't go to the concert in the park.
If you don't like processions and floats, then don't go to the cavalcade.
Limit the amount of time you spend walking up and down Peel Street
looking at the buskers. They deserve your attention but only up to a point.
The mainstream music is on at the big events,
and the interesting and different stuff is on at the smaller pubs and clubs.
Bus Services in Tamworth.
Normally there are four regular bus routes serving the suburbs
of Tamworth but during the festival there are four more
to help you travel between venues.
Firstly - a few vital points. The flat fare is $4.
And you can "hail and ride" - the bus will pick you up anywhere,
even if you are not at a bus stop.
All buses leave and return from Kable Avenue,
which is parallel to Peel street and runs alongside the river.
Route A:
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CBD
Shopping
Posters tell you whats on
Buskers
All good fun, allocate $10 at least to put in buskers hats.
Cheap CDs
Souvenirs, tee shirts
Read the Programme
What's on
Wendy's one page programme.
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Domain - yesterdayandtoday.com.au
Yes, we will be up at Tamworth again this year and will have a stall in the
courtyard of the Southgate Inn where we were a couple of years ago.
We will be there from approx. 8am-8pm on the 24th, 25th and 26th January...
that's Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Please come along and say hello. We will have plenty of bargains at only $5
(including some $5 bluegrass cds!!) and a great selection of cds at $18 and
$20 as well as some Texas independents you will simply not see elsewhere.
We'll even bring along some Bear Family box sets includig the recent George
Jones "United Artists Years" box. Simply irresistible!.
We will also have a fine selection of dvds including Alan Jackson "At the
Ryman" and Dale Watson "Live" which are only available in Canada and Holland
respectively....and of course Yesterday & Today Records.
The Southgate is one of the premier venues and everyone who comes should
take in one of their unbeatable meals. Simply the best in Tamworth. There
are 2 big rooms with an almost continual lineup of the best entertainers in
Tamworth.
So don't miss out! See you there. If there is anything specific you wish to
ensure is there please give me a call.
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