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10<br />

Country Music Festival<br />

Main article: Tamworth Country Music Festival<br />

Tamworth’s big Golden Guitar<br />

Tamworth is best known for hosting the Country Music Festival. The Festival is<br />

held over a period of 10 days during January, and is the second biggest country<br />

music festival in the world. The festival has many times been counted among the<br />

world’s top ten music festivals. In 2007, Forbes rated it as number 8 of the<br />

World’s Coolest Music Festivals. [29] It features thousands of Australian and<br />

international country music artists performing live shows 24 hours a day. Each<br />

year, an estimated 100,000 people pass through<br />

Tamworth for the festival, with around 70,000 staying<br />

for a substantial duration of the festival, with some<br />

camping along the banks of the Peel River.<br />

The 10-day festival culminates in the Golden Guitar<br />

Awards – the most prestigious award Australian<br />

country music artists can win for their music. In honour<br />

of its country music, Tamworth is home to the ‘Big Golden Guitar’, the wax<br />

museum and the hands of fame park of successful country music artists. Homegrown country music stars<br />

include Felicity Urquhart and up-and-coming talent Chasing Bailey, whose music style is a mixture of country,<br />

rock and other genres.<br />

As this Travelling Gavel as of 2012 has visited well over 56 Lodges throughout the world and still being<br />

presented into Lodges, I must continue with this book. Tamworth Lodge held it for around a month before they<br />

passed it onto another town, this time to Manilla (NSW) to the following Lodge<br />

Wikipedia<br />

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2 nd Lodge to receive this Gavel<br />

14 th September 1994<br />

2 nd Lodge to receive this Gavel<br />

14 th September 1994<br />

District 64<br />

St. Andrews Lodge No. 281<br />

District 64<br />

Manilla;<br />

http://www.masonicregions.org.au/lodge281.aspx<br />

Meets 2 nd Thursday of the month. Installation 2 nd Saturday in September<br />

W. Master W. Bro. Ed Parris Senior Warden: Bro Scott Gayford Junior Warden: Bro M.Schofield<br />

Secretary: W Bro David Jones. (02) 6785 1735 (H) (02) 6785 1836 (W)<br />

manillamotors@bigpond.com.au<br />

2012<br />

The W. Master in 1993 was W. Bro. J. Mortimer<br />

Secretary, W. Bro. David Frank Jones<br />

2012<br />

DGIW RW Bro Don Janson Phone: (02) 6760 9648 Mobile: 0407 439<br />

659<br />

P. O. Box. 4010 Nemingha NSW 2340<br />

Email: djjanson1@bigpond.com<br />

I didn’t receive a letter back from this Lodge

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