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Sights and sounds from the 2009 Gympie Muster
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It was an unusually hot, dry and dusty six days and nights of great music, entertainment, camping and camaraderie at the National Music Muster, the nation's second largest country music festival after Tamworth, held during the last week of August over 50 hectares of beautiful bushland in south-east Queensland's Amamoor State Forest.
At least 25,000 country music revellers made the pilgrimage to the annual Gympie Muster to turn the bush into a tent-city amid the unseasonal heatwave, some arriving up to seven weeks early to reserve prime bush real estate and set up some seriously impressive (not to mention, substantial) campsites - one notable dwelling know as ‘Swill Hill' even boasted an upper deck, front bar and washing machine.
The festival included a massive musical line-up, from modern country, to traditional country, blues, roots, bluegrass, rock, alt-country and more. Country music favourites like Kasey Chambers, Troy Cassar-Daley, Shannon Noll, James Blundell, Adam Harvey and Melinda Schneider, along with cheeky Muster veterans like Chad Morgan and Ted Egan, featured next to young up-and-comers. Meanwhile acts like Jeff Lang, Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing, The Wilson Pickers, Sarah Tindley and The Wildes provided an alternative take on the mainstream country sound.
The ABC Country team and local ABC Wide Bay crew were there to capture the week in sound and pictures and met some colourful characters along the way, proving the festival's affable adage: 'There are no strangers at the Muster, just friends you haven't met yet.'
Flick through our Gympie Gallery below and check back in soon for more sights and sounds from the huge event.
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Good memories!
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