THEIR NEW SINGLE IS DUE FOR RELEASE IN JUNE 2013 THE GIRL, THE BOTTLE, THE MEMORY! It has been a fast and furious ride for The Wolfe Brothers since coming in as runners up on Australia's Got Talent almost a year ago. Within weeks of completing their run on the prime time nationally televised show they were booked to tour with country music legend Lee Kernaghan for his entire 2013 Beautiful Noise national tour. Their first tour with Lee was with the American superstar Dwight Yoakam in major venues all over Australia - an amazing experience for the guys. They also signed a recording deal with ABC/UNIVERSAL and their first album, IT'S ON, entered the ARIA Country charts at #2 in January 2013. The band has been playing to huge crowds all this year on Lee's Beautiful Noise tour and winning over new fans at every show.
- a mix of industry and the general public. This prestigious yearly event is an official American Country Music Association event that marks the start of the biggest week in country music's calendar in Nashville - CMA Festival week. The CMA Global Artists Party features artists from all over the world including Canada, France, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil and the UK.
No one can say that The Wolfe Brothers are not a hard working band. They are performing in Shepparton on Sunday 2nd June with Lee Kernaghan. After the show they drive to Melbourne for a 6am flight to Los Angeles via Sydney on Monday 3rd June. Thanks to crossing the international dateline they pick up a whole day and arrive in Los Angeles at 6.30am on Monday 3rd. After a few hours lay over, they board another flight for Nashville to arrive at 6.30pm, take a quick shower and are on stage at 9.30pm.
“We thought about it, and the CMA Global Artists Party is only once a year and we did not want to wait another year to introduce ourselves into Nashville,” Tom Wolfe said. “I am sure the adrenalin will take over the jet lag when we hit the stage for our first show overseas.”
"In fact it is our first trip overseas, if you don't count King Island as overseas," laughed Nick Wolfe. "We are really excited about getting to Nashville and doing a few shows in the town that has had so much influence on us all. Being invited on a CMA event is just amazing and an opportunity we could not pass up".
This event will be streamed live world-wide on http://aristoworks.com/clients/global/ starting at 10am on Tuesday 4th June Eastern Standard Time in Australia. The Wolfe Brothers will be on stage live at 12.30pm - so stay at your desk for lunch and join the boys live in Nashville on Tuesday 4th June - AEST.
The band has also been invited to showcase some their brand of Aussie Country Rock at Honky Tonk Central, one of the largest bars on the Broadway Honky Tonk Strip in Nashville. They will be performing at Honky Tonk Central on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June at 9pm for a one hour set on both nights. More shows will be added at various honky tonks in Nashville during the week. Stay tuned on Facebook for details.
On their return from Nashville the band will release their second single - THE GIRL, THE BOTTLE, THE MEMORY. Award winning video director Duncan Toombs has produced the video for the song which will be released on Monday 17th June.
The Wolfe Brothers
The Beggars next concert will be at Trinity Sessions on Friday June 14th to launch a 23 day tour of Europe through June and July. This will be the bands fourth European tour.
Of 19 concerts across Switzerland, Germany and Denmark the highlight will be performing as part of a big Aussie line up at Skagen Denmark’s premier folk music festival. This concert celebrates the bands fourth European Tour, the release of their fourth album SING! and the bands continuing musical journey.
Some of the comments attributed to the band are :
"The best Australian vocal band since the Seekers" Normie Rowe 2012
"World-class musicians" Rocktimes 2010 [Germany]
"Super Australian band: Renee Donaghey is a genius." Bote der urschweiz Lucerne. 2008. [Switzerland]
When The Beggars formed it was quickly apparent there would be few places for the band to play at home in Adelaide, so they grasped the nettle of interstate and international touring right from the word go!
18 months after the band started they had a debut album of original songs, a single in the European charts and were performing in Switzerland and Germany. Treading the international stage so early in the bands career focused their sense of their Australian identity and attachment to 'home'. Their next two albums Desert Flower and Australian Songbook have a crystal clear Australian sound. 
Their Australian handmade acoustic sound has won them fans around the world resulting in multiple Australian and International tours. They have topped the European country music charts and made over 200 appearances on the iTunes singer songwriter and world music charts.
The Beggars comprise
Renee Donaghey: [vocals, guitar] Born on the family farm in Esperance, Western Australia. Hard times forced her family off the land and she moved to Adelaide. She has a crystal clear voice that rings out with the sound of folk and roots music
Quinton Dunne: [vocals, double bass] from the green hills of Ireland via London to the wide brown land of Australia. Quinton has played bass for many great Australian and international artists including The Seekers.
Stuart Day: [vocals, guitars, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica] Born in sunny Queensland, grew up in rainy Mt Gambier in the South East of South Australia. He is a highly regarded, ARIA nominated instrumentalist, composer and producer.
On Friday 14th The Beggars are joined on stage by Trev Warner and supported by The Texettes,
Friday June 14 at 8pm at the Trinity Sessions
318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park, SA, Ph 82974037
Tix $20/15
https://www.dramatix.com.au/events/1088
Dianne Lindsay has toured and performed at festivals and musters throughout Australia in the past few years enjoying many successes. A multi-award winning artist, Dianne writes and performs her own style of traditional Australian music. Among her many talents is her ability to interpret and present the real meaning of a bush ballad and this has made her a very popular and much sought after artist which included an invitation to represent Australia in the USA in 2011 at a Traditional Country Music Festival.
‘All Things Country’ is Dianne’s 5th album. This wonderful variety of country songs are presented in true traditional style with a strong ballad flavour. Fifteen tracks in all - seven originals, some classics and favourites. The album’s title ‘All Things Country’ is very fitting and included in the many standout tracks is a lovely vocal harmony duet with her cousin, Anne Kirkpatrick.
Dianne comes from a family that has played a huge role in the development of country music in Australia, her parents being Reg Lindsay and Heather McKean.
In 2012 and 2013 Dianne was a Golden Guitar finalist for ‘Bush Ballad of the Year’ at the Tamworth Country Music Awards and was also voted ‘Most Popular Female Vocalist’ in the 2013 Peoples’ Choice Awards at the Tamworth Festival cementing her place as Australia’s leading Female Balladeer artist.
CHIMNEY IN THE PADDOCK is the first single to be lifted off All Things Country. Travelling countless miles of country roads between shows and taking in the landscape gave Dianne the inspiration to tell the story of a lone chimney standing in a paddock and, as many of us do, to wonder about the history of these relics.
‘You Aint Never’ the latest radio single from Toowoomba-based Victoria Edwards is the second to be lifted from her sophomore album “Authentic”. The track is a duet with fellow Queensland artist Paul Cowderoy and was penned by Victoria and her guitarist Micah Bacquie.
It’s a fun-take on a long-term love story – the words ‘you aint never NOT gonna get none of my love no more’ make perfect sense if you live in a trailer park with ten kids and a husband that promised the world... and you’re still waiting. The song was born when friend Andrew 'Muddy' Waters retold the tale of when he over-heard a young mum with a pack of kids growl similar words at her son. As soon as he delivered the story Victoria knew there was a song in it!
Shayne Cantly from Evolution Studios in Toowoomba, QLD was the brains behind the associated video clip and has produced clips for Jimmy Barnes, Gina Jeffries and Travis Collins. While Paul Cowderoy provided vocals on the track, Dane Anderson is the face in the clip planned for release in mid June. Dane, a local guitarist who Victoria works with, has also toured with Warren H Williams.
The clip is set in a dollhouse which Victoria created herself along with the green dress she and her doll body wears. After four hours of shooting plus approximately the same for some outside shots and with the help of a little magic, Victoria will be living her happy-ever-after soon enough.
“Authentic”, released in September 2012, is a truly international collaboration with the vocals recorded in Queensland and the music in Nashville. The eleven track release includes nine written or co-written by the 2013 Toyota Star Maker finalist along with tracks from Shay Watson and Joe Nash (Gretchen Wilson, Tanya Tucker) and a song penned by Jaclyn North (her songs have been placed ‘on hold’ by Lady Antebellum and Reba McEntire) and Steve Williams (Buddy Jewell & Black Shelton).
The College Of Country Music graduate found her singing voice at an early age as she was going to church choir with her mum and insists that travelling and driving down highways is in her blood. And after hearing she was born in Canberra but has been to 13 different schools across Australia and New Zealand, there’s little room for doubt.
The green light has been given to a three-day country music festival that promises not only to showcase top-line entertainment, but to boost the coffers of a northern NSW area feeling the economic pinch.
The Clarence Valley Country Muster will be held at a property in the tiny settlement of Calliope – just 17 kilometres north east of Grafton – over the first three days of November.
Joint organiser Wendy Gordon, who will host the event on her property, said the muster was deliberately planned to coincide with the Valley’s famed Jacaranda Festival.
“It is an established fact that the Jacaranda Festival draws thousands of people – locals and tourists alike – to a colourful and extremely successful event in Grafton that goes back many, many years,” she said.
“Now those people will have another attraction to enjoy. The Clarence Valley Country Muster has been in the planning stage for several months. I was overjoyed and almost reduced to tears when Clarence Valley Council gave its stamp of approval to the event. It will inject a lot of money into Grafton and surrounding areas.”
Wendy Gordon, who is organising the festival along with former husband Terry Gordon and property owners Kerry Flanagan and Ken Watters, is no stranger to the planning of such events.
She has been involved in past Tamworth country music festivals and with ex-husband Terry – who boasts more than 50 years in the business – have organised and produced similar events at home and abroad.
“District people are behind us, the performers are lining up and it’s all systems go for the Clarence Valley Country Muster – an event never before seen in these parts,” Wendy Gordon said.
A part of the Calliope property that will be turned over for the three-day country music muster.
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