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UNITED EFFORT BY ENTERTAINERS IN
TELEVISED BUSH CHRISTMAS APPEAL
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

IN DECEMBER, a swag of Australian artists banded together for a special Bush Christmas Appeal at Mornington Racecourse for HAY MATE, raising funds for Rural Aid that was shared with farmers struggling with drought. Headlined by John Farnham, with Jon Stevens, Daryl Braithwaite, Vanessa Amorosi, John Williamson, The Black Sorrows with Vika & Linda, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Tim Wheatley and Little Georgia, the HAY MATE concert was broadcast as a live telethon on Channel 9.

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Rock Gunn turns to country
With award-winning results

By SHIRLEY BROUN

FINDING your own niche when entering the world of live stage performance can be a little daunting especially when you are not quite sure where your talents could best be showcased.
For this year’s recipient of the Slim Dusty Country Artist of the Year MO Award BENN GUNN the journey of discovery began singing in a rock band at Sydney venues as a teenager in the 1990s.… Members read the rest!

Spirit of Anzacs sees banner held high

By SHIRLEY BROUN

ENTERTAINERS Dee Donavan, Sylvia Raye, Lorrae Desmond, Dinah Lee, Jacki De Paul, Lynne Fletcher and Little Patti have given Australian performers who entertained the troops in war zones a special place in Sydney’s annual April 25 Anzac Day march.

Until seven years ago, performers who travelled to the war zones in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Iraq, East Timor, Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, and the United Nations to bolster the spirits of our fighting diggers were relegated to finding a spot with one of the battalions if they wanted to march – never having a `unit’ of their own in which they could all march as a combined `force’.

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Flashback to Variety Today 1990
Kerri-Anne Kennerley

GOODMORNING Australia host Kerri-Anne Kennerley goes back just two years to her most memorable Christmas.

"Celebrating with my husband John's family at The Bear Pub at Woodstock, England, would have to be the most memorable," she said.

"After enjoying a traditional hot Christmas dinner, we all sat in front of a log fire and sang Christmas Carols with my sister-in-law Emmy Lou Harris (married to John's brother Paul).

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Latest awards are `icing on the cake' for major talent
Flashback to Variety Today 1995

TAKING the hat trick at this year's Australian Country Music Awards in Tamowrth is the icing on the cake for singer-songwriter Graeme Connors.

Based in Mackay, Queensland, Graeme since 1988 has been growing in stature and has been one of the most successful chart artists of the past few years, scoring five straight No.1 hits on the Country Track chart.

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Variety Today 1996

Shirley Broun wrote in 1996:

 A Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. That may have been the case once, but John Williamson has rewritten the adage and turned a bird in the bush - Old Man Emu - into 25 years in show business.

Affectionately referred to as the `boy from the Mallee' who is every bit `true blue', John has endured the test of time and has built up an unshakeable following to boot.

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