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Tamworth Music Festival well underway with big name acts making surprise appearance
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/22/2025
Country music star Max Jackson speaks of the ‘whole new buzz’ at this year’s Tamworth Country Music Festival. More than 40-thousand people are expected to attend this festival in northeastern New South Wales.
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Well, it is the center of the known universe here at Tamworth.
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Now, I'm joined here by someone you just mentioned there, Max Jackson, who has taken just a brief
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moment to get away from signing signatures, hugging fans, taking photos.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Another Tamworth Country Music Festival.
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What's it been like?
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Oh, my gosh.
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It's always good to be back in Tamworth.
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It's such a great way to kick off the year, and I just feel like there's a whole new buzz.
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You know, country music is trending everywhere, so I feel like there's all new people here,
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and it's very fun.
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Now, you are a regular here.
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The face of Tamworth Country Music Festival this year again.
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What is it like, you know, being a household name around Tamworth?
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You know, I've grown up coming to the Tamworth Country Music Festival as a fan, and so being
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on the other side of it now, I'm just incredibly grateful, but I think it's a festival like
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no other.
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There's music for every person, and, you know, for every artist, there's an opportunity,
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whether it be the very first time you pick up your guitar to maybe, you know, winning
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a golden guitar like I was lucky enough to do last year.
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Now, a former Star Maker winner, we've just crowned a new one.
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It must have been so exciting to see a new artist be bestowed with such an honour.
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You know, it was only a couple of years ago, the same thing happened to you.
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I have Star Maker to thank so much for everything that I'm doing, and, you know, I was so excited
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for Felicity and of course for Wade last year, and every new Star Maker winner.
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It's just a huge year ahead, and I just wish her all the best.
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So what's coming up for you?
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We're Day 6 of the 10 Day Festival.
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Hey, we've still got the long weekend to come, so there's still plenty of fun to happen.
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What's on the agenda for you?
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So I've just played here in Fan Zone down in Field Street, and there's so many people
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around, and tomorrow I've got my headline show at the Long Yard at 2 o'clock, so really
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excited for that.
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And at the end of it all, I'm actually co-hosting the Golden Guitars, so going to be very busy
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for the rest of the time.
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And we all know that it's been on the tip of everyone's lips, the Golden Guitars.
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We're going to have a very, very special guest there, Keith Urban.
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How excited are you?
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Oh, I cannot believe that Keith is coming.
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You know, whenever I've gone overseas, just because I'm from Australia, people go,
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oh, so you know Keith?
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And I'm like, no, I haven't met him yet.
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So hopefully we'll get to meet him while he's here.
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We've got all that and plenty more happening here at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
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Max, thank you so much.
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I'm sure we'll hear plenty more from you.
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Back to you.
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