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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