The Mildura Country Music Festival was an annual
Australian country music festival
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based in
Mildura
Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 in 2021. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point and Merbein are included, the area h ...
,
Victoria
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. The 1994 event was held in October, which the Australian Country Music Ambassador, Kelly Tassone felt was "fast becoming a favourite festival
with performers."
In 2005 it was sponsored by
Telstra
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Countrywide. It focused on independent country music artists (about 95 percent of performers in the Australian country music industry).
Mildura Country Music Festival
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This festival has been virtual since 2020.
Winners
Much of the Festival is free and a live concert and radio presentation of the Australian Independent Country Music Awards, recognising the achievements of independent recording artists. Previous Independent Country Music Awards finalists and winners include:
*Kate Ballantyne
*Vanya
*Darren Coggan
*Michael O'Rourke
*Dianna Corcoran
Dianna Elizabeth Corcoran (born 20 June 1979 in Parkes, New South Wales) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Among numerous awards, she is a three-time Golden Guitar winner
History
Corcoran's initial interest in country music inv ...
*Carter & Carter
* Brendon Walmsley (1999)
*Allan Caswell
David Allan Caswell, publishing under pen name Allan Caswell, is an English-Australian songwriter and performer, author, record producer, freelance journalist and teacher. Caswell wrote " On the Inside" (the theme from the television series ' ...
* Angus Gill
* Aleyce Simmonds
* Luke O'Shea
Performers have included:
*Felicity Urquhart
Felicity Ann Urquhart (born 4 May 1976) is an Australian country and western music singer-songwriter, and a TV and radio presenter. Her single "Big Black Cloud", co-written with Randy Scruggs, reached No. 1 on Country Tracks National Top&nb ...
*Craig Giles
*Peter Horan
Peter Horan (1926 – 17 October 2010) was an Irish flute and fiddle player from Killavil, County Sligo, who is known for having developed a unique style influenced by the local irish fiddling tradition. He was called "one of the country's bes ...
*Tracy Coster
Tracy Coster is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. She was born on 12 April 1966. Her father, Stan Coster, was an acknowledged songwriter.
Early life
It is hard to determine the time Tracy Coster started her career. She was born ...
*Reg Poole
Reg Poole is an Australian country singer-songwriter. Poole won three Golden Guitars, was inducted into the Roll of Renown in 2006, was awarded an OAM for services to country music in 2006 and in 2016 was elevated to Country Music living legen ...
*Glenn Jones
Glenn Jones (born September 27, 1962 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American R&B/soul singer. He is best known for his songs "Show Me", "We've Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)" and "Here I Go Again" which reached No. 1 on the Billboa ...
*Fisk & Cristian
*Pater Pratt
* Owen Blundell
*Terry Gordon
*Sweeney Killeen
*Michael King
*Carter & Carter
*Kiara Rodrigues
See also
*List of country music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of country music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on country music. This list may have some overlap with the larger topic list of folk festivals, and may also overlap with the related t ...
*List of folk festivals
A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods.
Handicr ...
*Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
References
External links
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{{Music of Australia
Folk festivals in Australia
Music festivals established in 1982
Music festivals in Victoria (state)
Country music festivals in Australia
1982 establishments in Australia
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