| G'Day folks...
Well Tamworth and
Bungendore are over once again and we are back
home, but not for long we have a few shows
around the ridges which i am sure you will
hear about, we like to use local Community
Radio and l;ocal Abc Radio wherever we can,and
we would like to thank them all for promoting
our Shows and our Material. We will be doing a
couple of short Tours this year down to Tassie
over to SA and out back Queensland ,the Qld
leg with Reg Poole hopefully and doing a few
Festivals in between.
We would like to thank Graham and Marie Doring
at the Balladeers Shed Tamworth for looking
after us and to Ginger and Marie Cox and all
the Kimberley folk for the cooking and great
music we will be back next year with many
more,we will catch up to them on our tour next
year with Rachel and Dave Richards,we would
like to Congratulate Rachel on her Win and we
know she has a big future ahead of her and
will be helping her wherever we can ,also to
Sharon, Dean and Evan they are all Winners
just for keeping the old Bush Ballad alive.
Congratulations to Wave Jackson The Legand for
his Songmaker Award.
We would like to thank Katania at One Stop
Entertainment for their distribution the best
thing we ever done, if you are looking for a
song just mention our name and One stop
entertainment to your record store. Thanks to
all of the balladeers who Recorded my songs
last year and congratulations to all the
winners in all Awards and to Tapping Teddy and
Sharon Smith for helping out in Tamworth and
to Graham and Debbie Snow. Thanks to all at
the Bulletin and hope to catch you around the
ridges somewhere soon.
Yours With An Aussie Song
Keith Jamieson, Alisha Smith and Caitlyn Jane
RESULTS
NT COUNTRY
SONGWRITING AWARDS AND COUNTRY SONGWRITING
COMPETITION KATHERINE NT.2008
WINNERS marked in
red:
BUSH BALLAD
Our Women Pioneers -
Ray Rose
One Of Kidmans Men- Buddy Thomson
Born And Bred In The Nt- Ben Jacobs / Shaza
Leigh
Banjo And Henry - Peter Coad
Woman On The Land - Graham Rodger
CONTEMPORARY
Wild Flowers -Clelia
Adams
Thank God- Jay Collie / Tim Dutton / Jasper
Sommerville-Collie
Free To Be Me - Michelle Little / Patricia
Cruzado
Dreamland - Danny Hooper
Long Gone - Rodney Auld / Jay Collie /Jasper
Sommerville-Collie
COMEDY/NOVELTY
The Boobs Song - Rita
Schneider / Kath Fleming
Postman Kangaroo - Nathan Charlton
We're Real Aussies - Craig Stewart
Down On The Farm - Rita Schneider
There's A Hole In The Mozzie Net - Graham
Rodger / Deidre Wilmington
NT COUNTRY SONGWRITING COMPETITION TOP FIVE
FINALISTS:
PROFESSIONAL SECTION (Unreleased Material)
Temporary Loan - Lola
Brinton
Million Miles - Leah Briggs
Manabadgerie Run - Graham Rodger/ Mark
Kleinschmidt
I've Done It - Brent Lillie
Manarichie Rails - Johnny Kaye / Tom Mcivor.
AMATEUR SECTION
Katherine Through The
Ages - Lindy Lou
Box Of Kisses - Lauren Brede
Island River - Mary Flynn
Coming Home - Edward Everingham
Rip It Up - Christie Lamb
LYRICS ONLY SECTION
The Old Brindle Bull - Lindy Lou
The Pride Of The Stockman - Alec Raymer
How Two Boys Lived Their Dream - Merv Webster
Strum - Manfred Vijars
The Fire At Granite
Creek - Lindy Lou / Zac Finden
Song of the year wild" WILD FLOWERS" Clelia
Adams.
Congratulations to all Winners and Finalists.
GOLDEN GUITAR FINALISTS
2008!
INSTRUMENTAL
Alisha Smith & Charley Boyter - Tanami
Track
Kross Cut Records
Full awards listing:
http://www.country.com.au/index.cfm
2008
TSA SONGWRITERS’ SALUTE AWARDS OF
AUSTRALIA FINALISTS
BUSH BALLAD OF THE YEAR
Follow
In The Footsteps – KEITH JAMIESON
COMEDY/NOVELTY
SONG OF THE YEAR
Old Pete’s Yellowbelly – KEITH
JAMIESON
Full listing of finalists
www.tsaonline.com.au
Dinki Di Country Tour 2007- November
We have just
finished our around Australia tour with Reg and
Dot Poole and Graeme and Debbie Snow, we had a
great tour except for doing a gearbox at Casino
but with the help of the NRMA and The RACQ it
pays to belong, we had the ute sent to
Toowoomba,
where a mate of ours Stan Bennett pulled the box
out with a bit of help from me and Andrew who
owns the workshop located a gearbox for me in
Brisbane and the rest is history we got rolling
again.
>> Keith, Alisha & Reg
at Port Pirie
So
if you are ever stuck and need a hand call on
Andrew, Stan and the crew at Toowoomba Engine
Centre. and thanks to Stan and Carrol Bennet for
their hospitality from myself, Alisha and
(Caitlyn who ransacked their
house
and fed the chooks.)
<< Caitlyn at
Port Pirie
>>
Reg and Dot at Port
Pirie
We we're honoured to have Reg with us as he
added heaps to our shows and were all on the
same wavelength and was great to travel with,
Dot and Debbie were very efficient on the door
and Graeme was a great help looking after
Caitlyn as she wanted to be with Mum and Dad on
stage some times.
To all the people that looked after us, the ones
that supported our shows the radio stations and
media on behalf of Reg and Dot, Graeme and
Debbie, Alisha, Caitlyn and Myself we thank
you sincerely and to the roadhouses that Ripped
us off, next time I will be bringing a fuel
tanker with me.
We finished or tour at Widgee Balladeers muster
to a Great crowd and lots of caravans thanks to Lex K and the Committee and
Tappin Teddy
Thompson for your tappin’ Mate.
<< Farewell at end of Tour:
L-R: Graeme, Reg, Debbie, Keith, Caitlyn, Dot, &
Alisha.
>>
Keith and Caitlyn
Mimbi Caves near Fitzroy Crossing WA.
Thanks to all
at the Bulletin for their coverage of our tour,
if you get a chance to tour make sure you have a
look at our Beautiful Country first and we hope
to see you all again soon, have a great
Christmas and we will see you at Tamworth or
Bungendore or at a show near you.
Yours With An Aussie Song
Keith Jamieson, Alisha Smith, Caitlyn Jane, Reg
and Dot Poole
''FAIR DINKUM
COUNTRY '' ON
TOUR...UPDATE October
What a great trip we are having around
Australia again. This is our third lap and
still enjoying it more and more, we have a
beautiful country.
Reg Poole and his lovely wife Dot are
travelling with us and loving it. This is
their first tour up in the Territory and the
Kimberley and will be their first time across
Nullabor.
We
have
had some
great shows since starting at Casino which we
started on a sad note with the passing of
Shorty Ranger. Alisha, Caitlyn and I attended Shorty’s Funeral at Kempsey.
Our Shows have taken in Clubs, Caravan Parks,
Aboriginal Communities and Hotels with great
distances between some shows and we have met a
lot of nice people.
We have only been knocked back from playing at
one Caravan Park which was the Fitzroy River
Lodge Caravan Park at Fitzroy Crossing, due to
some noise freak the night before we got there
or so they say. Our new CD "Our Bush Ballad
Family" is going well as is Reg Poole’s CD's.
<< Keith and Alisha
Reg was surprised at the amount of Aboriginal
People that know and love his music from The
Desert Shows to Broome. You meet a lot of
different people from all walks of life while
you are travelling and you break in more new
people to Bush Ballad Music. ( Reg Poole
>>>>)
I released my new song Barn Hill Station at
Barn Hill to a great response.
Reg has been doing well with his new tribute
song to Slim Dusty written by Barney O'Donnell
from WA and the Bull song written by Trevor
Day and Chainsaw by Tom McIvor.
<<< Bush Clothes Line _ Reg Poole)
Alisha has been playing a lot of her new
Instrumentals from "Our Bush Ballad Family".
Soon we will be heading into to SA, to Narrawong
and Warrnambool Vic., across to Tassy to do
seven shows and on our way back up through the
Gippsland from Yallourn bowls to Bairnsdale
RSL. Then Goulburn Railway Bowls and Eagles
Nest Christian Centre at Yass then up to
Hexham Bowls, Wauchope RSL, Powerhouse Motel
Kempsey, Redcliffe Country
Music Club other
venues in October to be confirmed and
finishing our tour on 28th October at Widgee
Balladeers Muster.
(>> Alisha and Ringer Sam)
We have
had Graham and
Debbie Snow with us on the tour who have been
a great help and we would all like to thank
them. They had their huge motor home and
four
wheel drive in tow
and got to have a look at a piece of Australia
they hadn't seen before.
On behalf of all of us, a big thankyou to
everyone around Australia who helped with the
tour, all the venues, radio presenters and to
everyone for their wonderful hospitality.
(<< Caitlyn and Alisha Cable Beach -
Broome)
Hope to catch up with you all around the
ridges somewhere,
Yours with an Aussie Song,
Keith Jamieson, Reg Poole and Alisha Smith
Keith
Jamieson
NEW
ALBUM "OUR BUSH BALLAD FAMILY"!!
Keith Jamieson and Alisha Smith
released their new
album
at their Pittsworth show on 1st July coinciding
with their around Australia tour. The
album is dedicated to all of the bush ballad
fans
around Australia and is titled "Our Bush
Ballad Family". It features eight bush ballads
from Keith and seven instrumentals by Alisha,
one of which she recorded as a guitar duet
with the legendary Charley Boyter. The album
was produced by Lindsay Waddington at Krosskut
Records and features some of the best
musicians in the industry.
Keith
Jamieson
THE
2007 GIDGEE COAL BUSH BALLAD AWARDS WINNERS!
MARKED WITH *►
Trophies made by John
Staunton
MALE
VOCAL
Peter Coad - Banjo And Henry
Jeff Brown - Old
Ringer Sam*
Reg Poole - A Tribute To Slim
FEMALE VOCAL
Jenny Bennetts - Cold Wind
Dianne Lindsay - The
Local Mary Magdalene*
Denise Brooks - The Vanishing Breed
SONGWRITER/S
Jeff Brown/Glenn Perrett - Beneath The Green
And Gold
Peter Coad - I Heard
A Hillbilly Song*
Wave Jackson - The Augathella Fella
ALBUM
Peter Coad - Outback Chapters
Jeff Brown - Harvest
Time Again*
Dean Perrett - Return Of The Stockman
GROUP/DUO
Dean Perrett/Peter Pratt - Riding Down The
Valley
Barry K & Lin Chandler - We're From This Land
Terry & Jenny
Bennetts - I Miss The Good Old Days*
INSTRUMENTAL
Lindsay Waddington -
By A Fire Of Gidgee Coal*
Peter Simpson - The Man From Snowy River
COMEDY/NOVELTY
Graham Rodger - There's A Hole In The Mossie
Net
Neil Buttsworth - Couldya, Would Ya, Do Ya
Wanna
Reg Poole - Ode To A
Bull*
NEW TALENT
Leigh Moneghetti - Dusty Guitar
Denise Brooks - A
Scene From Long Ago*
Evan Platschinda - Travelling Australia
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD
Leigh Moneghetti -
Dusty Guitar*
Featuring a
wide array of bush ballad artists, the awards
were staged at the Pittsworth (near Toowoomba)
Town Hall on Sat 17th & Sun 19th NOVEMBER.
For Information on Awards Ph 0427731088 or
0749340950.
<<
CAITLYN JANE
Here she is the
little Guitar Pickin Chick born to
proud parents Alisha Smith and Keith
Jamieson on the 16/02/06 at Rockhampton Qld
at 4.25 am weight 7lbs.7oz.
Mum and baby doing well.
Thanks to all the
wonderful people for your support right around
Australia.
From.
Alisha , Keith and Caitlyn Jane
Pt. 2. Around Australia Tour 2005
We had a great tour. We were on the road for
about 7 months of the year, first with Jeff
Brown and Sharon Smith and then later in the
year we went around Australia again with Rick &
Cathy. We spoke about some of our tour
earlier
on the site, at the time we were about
halfway through the tour and in WA. After we
left there we headed out across the Nullabor to
perform several shows in SA at Lock, Pt Pirie,
Wilmington, Nuriootpa, Moonta and Hindmarsh
Valley. We had some great support from the SA
people and really enjoyed performing over
there. We then called in at the Mildura
festival for a few days and caught up with some
of our mates who were performing at the
festival. We did a guest spot on Warren
Mahoney's show at Apex Park which is a great
venue for bush ballads.
From there we performed at Robinvale where Wave
Jackson was a special guest artist on his way
home from Mildura. We then did a show at
Narrawong in Victoria and left our caravans with
Alby and Joan Martin at Koroit before heading
over to Tassie on the Spirit of Tasmania for two
weeks. We had a great time in Tassie once again
with some great hospitality from Pam & Brian
Lewis and Gaylene and Maurie Faulkner. We had 7
good shows in Tassie with great support from the
people at Lindisfarne, Huonville, Bruny Island,
Tam O'Shanter, Launceston, Ulverstone and
Deloraine.
After Tassie we headed back to Koroit via the
Great Ocean Road to pick up the vans and perform
at Warrnambool, which was organised for us by
our friends Ron & Jan Morgan. We then showed at
Traralgon, then onto Bairnsdale Country Music
Club where we had a great crowd and our special
guest artists were Lindsay & Gail Hammond and
Les Willams. Then we were on the home run, as
we started to make our way north, performing at
Wagga Wagga, Yass, Canberra and Goulburn. We
had a few days off so we called in and stayed a
couple of nights with Ted & Merelyn Olive at
Maitland while Rick & Cathy spent some time on
the coast at Woy Woy.
Then we headed up the coast to perform at
Wauchope with Ken "Chainsaw" Lindsay as our
guest artist. We were very privileged to have
the legendary Shorty Ranger and his fiddle
player Darrell Turnbull and young balladeer Amos
Morris on our show at the Powerhouse Motel at
Kempsey which was organised by Bob Campaign &
Jillian. It's a great little venue if any other
balladeers are
looking to perform in Kempsey. We had a great
show once again in Kyogle the following night,
thanks to Lyn Manning. Matt Manning and Jeff
Gibson performed on the show as well as "Tappin'
Teddy Thompson". We got to catch up with Jim
Laffin & Marion Dargusch,
also Frank & Kath Early who travelled down to
Kyogle for the show. We then travelled up to
Wynnum in Brisbane where Julie Perandes was our
guest artist for
the
afternoon, it's great to see Julie still
performing bush ballads and thanks to Jean for
organising the show.
Photo:
L-R:
Alisha Smith, Shorty Ranger, Darrell Turnball,
Keith Jamieson and Cathy Deite.
Our last show for the tour was at Pittsworth
near Toowoomba where we had a huge supportive
crowd of about 250 people. Jeff Brown, Sharon
Smith & Ted Thompson all performed and the show
was compered by a legend of radio and rodeo Mr
Ted Hintz. Thanks to Marion once again for
looking after the door for us. It was a great
feeling to be finished the tour and on our way
home again after four and a half months straight
on the road and 28000 km's. Thanks to everyone
who supported the shows and helped organise the
shows, a few people we haven't mentioned are
Alan & Natalie Cunningham, Laurel & Niffy
Robinson, Natalie & Barney Pearce, Merv Schapell,
Glyn & Rosemary Squires, Lois Holland, Bill
McIntyre, Molly Leary, David Shaw, Ray Bean,
Nancy & Allan Evans, Peter & Meroli Wicks, John
Goode, Wayne Brennan, Brian Annetts, Joy & Max
Lewis, and big thankyou to Ros Scotney, Stan &
Carol. Also Chris Jensen, Dennis O'hara, Wayne
Shearman, all the crew at 4DDB and many other
community radio presenters and ABC early morning
presenters around Australia. Thanks to all
involved with the ABBA for their support over
the past year.
PT. 1. Around Australia
Tour 2005. We started our tour on
the 24th June at Chinchilla QLD and continued on
to Warwick, then Tent Hill Hotel where we had a
great show and launched Keith's new album,
"Songs From a Bush Ballad Pen" and his
autobiography "Life's Highway". "Songs From a
Bush Ballad Pen" is an album of Joe Daly's poems
which Keith put tunes to and features the last
recorded lead guitar of the late Paul Lester.
We also launched Rick & Cathy's brilliant new
album "Through Our Eyes", which was recorded at
Regency Sound by Marc Lea.
From there we
headed up the QLD coast playing at Maryborough,
Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Mackay to some very
appreciative audiences. Then it was out west to
Capella and Blackall, where we caught up with
Bill Coleman, then Isisford where we stayed with
Kevie and Dolly Woodlands, Winton, Mt Isa, then
onto the Barkly Homestead where we played for a
couple of nights.
We did a couple of shows in
Katherine at the Katherine Country Club and
Crossways Hotel and spent a bit of time with
some of the committee of the Katherine Country
Music Muster. In Katherine we met up with John
and Margaret Staunton from Millmerran who are
travelling around Australia for 12 months. John
does a lot of the cooking for the Camp Oven
Festival at Millmerran. They travelled with us
right across the Kimberley and down to Eighty
Mile Beach. We really appreciated their help at
the shows where they did the door and looked
after our CD's, they are great people and we'll
miss them (and John's good cooking) for the
rest of our trip. Pic above: L-R: Margaret
Staunton, Keith, Alisha, Rick & Cathy and John
Staunton at Barn Hill Station WA
We then went across
to Timber Creek where we had a great show and
then to Wyndham where we played with Bruce
Johnson and his boys at the hotel. Bruce is a
great lead guitarist who plays in the style of
Barry Thornton. From there we played at Warmun
Community, then stopped for a night at the Mary
Pool rest area between Halls Creek and Fitzroy
Crossing where we decided to do a show using 2
generators to power the equipment. It was a
beautiful setting right on the banks of the
river under some beautiful big old gum trees.
We met some lovely people there who we kept
running into right down to Eighty Mile Beach. We
stayed a few nights at Fitzroy Crossing where we
played at the Fitzroy River Lodge and also the
caravan park. We also performed at a few
aboriginal communities around Fitzroy - Bayulu,
Wantkatjunka, Noonkanbah and Yakanarra with the
help of Martin Smiler and family, also Ronnie
and Andrew. Andrew took us on a tour of Mimbi
Caves (between Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing)
which are absolutely beautiful. Pic Above
Right: Rick, Cathy,Alisha, & Keith at Mary Pool
Rest Area WA
We spent a week at
Derby playing for the tourists at the Kimberley
Entrance Caravan Park where Ian and Julie looked
after us, then went onto the Broome Caravan Park
and played there for four nights, thanks to
Graham and Donna. We caught up with our great
mates Ginger and Marie Cox in Broome who were
great friends of Barry Thornton. Ginger is a
great lead guitarist as well and plays in the
same style as Barry. He took us up to play at
the Beagle Bay Community, north of Broome where
we met some lovely people and got to see a
beautiful old church which was built in 1917 and
has all pearl shells inlaid into the walls and
floor.
From Broome we travelled about 130kms south to Barn Hill
station, which has a caravan park which
overlooks the ocean with beautiful cliff faces.
It's a beautiful spot and a lot of tourists from
down south go up there for a few months of the
year to escape the cold weather. We played
there for 2 nights and had a great time, Keith
loved it so much that he is writing a song about
the place. We spent a couple of nights playing
at Eighty Mile Beach and then had to say goodbye
to the Stauntons as we headed south through Port
Hedland, playing at Carnarvon and Geraldton then
down to Perth, where we played at Balga with the
help of Ken Lindley. We had a great show at the
South Coast Country Music Club at Albany, which
was organised by Dulcie & Trevor and all the
crew.
We
also had the pleasure of catching up with
Rick Carey at our Albany show where Keith
sang a song he had just finished writing about
him and his days as "Cousin Ratsack". After
that we performed at Narrogin, York and Northam
with the help of some great people - Sandra
O'Neill and Ken and Pauline Tillbrook. We are
now still in York for a few days and spending a
bit of time with Ken & Pauline.
Pic
Left: L-R: Keith Jamieson, Rick Carey,and
Alisha Smith.
We will start
heading east across the Nullabor and into SA
where we will be performing at several venues
for a couple of weeks including Lock,
Wilmington, Pt Pirie, Nuriootpa and Victor
Harbour, then to the Mildura Festival and down
to the bottom of Victoria to Narrawong. Then
it's over to Tassie on the boat for two weeks
where we will do six shows. We are looking
forward to that as we enjoyed our trip over
there in February and Rick &
Cathy haven't been
there before. After Tassi e we will perform at
Warrnambool, Traralgon and Bairnsdale, then
start heading north up through Wagga Wagga, Yass,
Canberra and Goulburn then over to the coast
where we will work our way up through Wauchope,
Kempsey, Kyogle and Wynnum. The tour will
culminate in a big concert at Pittsworth Town
Hall with special guests Jeff Brown and Sharon
Smith, which will be compered by Ted Hintz,
radio announcer from the early Hoedown days on
2TM. This show is being organised by our good
mate Ros Scotney and will be on Sunday afternoon
6th November.
Pic Right : L-R: Cathy, Rick Carey & Rick
We would like to
thank everyone who helped us organise our tour
and supported the shows right around Australia,
there are too many people to
mention you all but we do appreciate all of your
help. We look forward to catching up with
you all at the Frog and Toad in Tamworth 2006.
Yours With an
Aussie Song,
Keith Jamieson, Alisha Smith, Rick & Cathy
Keith
Jamieson
>> This is a photo of my great niece
Lilly Crouch at our show at Wynum Hall
WA with Alisha.
She has my hat on. This was taken on our
round Australia tour in 2004. A real cutie!
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