Join Felicity Urquhart every Wednesday and Sunday from 2pm to hear a repeat of Saturday Night Country.
On the show this week, Felicity catches up with Rose Carleo at the Mud Balls and Music Festival in Queensland, Steve Cheers plays live in the studio for Down at the Local, and Chris Webbe is on the phone to tell us about his brand new album. Plus, we get the lowdown on the Canberra Country Music Festival and hear from Eric Bogle's new release The Dreamer. All that, and the best Country music from Australia and beyond...
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Blake Shelton has become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.
The singer was inducted by Opry member Trace Adkins before a sold-out Opry House audience on Saturday night.
He opened the show with It's All About Tonight, then returned later to sing We Wouldn't Be Gone, followed by a duet with Adkins on Hillbilly Bone.
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Earlier today, tickets for the Garth Brooks concert in Nashville on Dec. 17th went on sale and promptly sold-out.* Then, as we anticipated, Garth started adding shows.* First one, then two and by the time it was all said and done, nine shows in all were sold out.** Sound familiar?* You might remember back in [...]
Grammy winner Brad Paisley is set to write about his musical heroes and influences.
The book called The Diary of a Player, will pay tribute to some of Paisley’s favourite guitarists from a variety of genres, along with "the very personal story of how Paisley became who he is today," according to the book's press release.
The singer is co-writing the book with Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild and it is expected to be released by May 2011.
Paisley is also planning to release a double album of studio and concert recordings, Hits Alive, in November.
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Dot Dawson, the widow of country music legend Smoky Dawson, had died at the age of 104.
She passed away in her sleep at a Sydney nursing home on Wednesday evening.
Dot was born Florence Cheers in Maryborough in Victoria in 1906.
She was one of the first women broadcasters who worked for the ABC during the Second World War as well as a radio actress, producer and drama coach in her own right. She also helped establish Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight in the 1930s to raise funds for polio victims.
The other half of one of the most long-lived love stories in Australian showbusiness, Dot married Smoky Dawson in 1944.
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