Music in the Mulga

Music in the Mulga is held each year in May at Wandilla Station, about 15 kms out of Eulo in south west Queensland. It is a weekend where artists mix with the audience, beginning with a Celebrity Cook Off.

Each celebrity is asked to cook a meal outdoors in a camp oven, bbq or over the fire for Friday night dinner. Meals are then sold and the money goes to Angel Flight charity. George took on the task of cooking a Beef Curry with a damper. Both were special recipes, the beef curry from our very good friend Kim, the cook at Durham last year. The damper was from another good friend Norm, our indigenous stockman at Durham who George has become great mates with.

Each celebrity / muso then had to spruik their meals to gain a ticket which was used to count their sales. Each guest paid $20 and received 4 tickets to purchase their meals. Both 

musos and guests enjoyed themselves.

The headliners were Simply Bushed, Tanya Kernagan, Adam Brand, Jarred Porter, Graham Rogers to name a few.

George had a great time across the weekend ! He was booked to do a performance on the Saturday morning and help with organising the walk ups. But it was a relaxed weekend and many of the artists joined in during the walk up times as individuals or in groups. After the main show at night all the artists would get together around the campfire to jam. Those of the audience who stayed awake into the small hours were treated to a wonderful mix of music from the artists. 

It's safe to say George had a ball playing and singing with them all.

George on stage on Saturday

George was honoured to be asked by Graham Rodgers to back him in the night shows ! It seems the two of them have modern ballads and songwriting in common.  Looks like there will be a few more of these gigs in Qld next year.

As I said it was a fairly laid back Music Festival, day and night, with lots of opprtunities for Musos and audience to to mingle. Here are some photos of the late afternoon shows. Unfortunately my night ahots did not come out too well.

We will definitely have the Music in The Mulga festival on our list for next year !

By Lynne