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Like many places across Australia this past weekend the 2012 Australia Day Awards recognised and honoured many Australians for their outstanding contributions to their communities. The Yinnar based band, Strzelecki Stringbusters, picked up two awards for their services to the community. The group received the Exceptional Citizenship Award – presented the Strzelecki Stringbusters for their [...]
The Strzelecki Stringbusters have proudly announced that as part of his 2012 Australian tour, Peter Rowan and his Bluegrass Band will be performing in Yinnar on Sunday March 25th. As a house-hold name in US bluegrass circles, Peter Rowan’s legacy to the genre is still being written, but rest assured that after more than 40 [...]
The Strzelecki Stringbusters held their last monthly Yinnar Pub show for the year recently, and what an evening it turned out to be. With the dinner plates still clanking, and patrons jostling for drinks at the bar, the night kicked off with the 30-strong Stringbuster’s Bluegrass Beginner Band performing all songs learned during the year. [...]
Earlier this month, Jan Dale from PBS radio’s Southern Style program invited the boys up to the big smoke to perform on the ‘Studio 5 Live’ spot. Click http://www.pbsfm.org.au/ to listen the pod cast from about the 30-minute mark. Given the humidity on the day, The Stringbusters would also like to thank PBS for access [...]
Submitted by John Werner – Vic Bluegrass Parkway received an unbelievable reception at their debut Yinnar Pub show last week, as special guests at the Strzelecki Stringbusters last Wednesday of the month gig. Fresh from the successful Great Alpine Pick, this fine West Australian band performed a red-hot set of their favourite tunes, dazzling the [...]
All roads lead to The Yinnar Pub The word is out. The stellar lineup of performers presented by the Strzelecki Stringbusters so far this year has cemented The Yinnar Pub’s reputation as one of Australia’s and certainly Victoria’s leading Bluegrass / Old Time venue. The boys have made a habit of attracting a variety of [...]
Australia’s newest Bluegrass & Old Time venue, the Yinnar Hotel in Gippsland, played host to the Strzelecki Stringbuster’s final End Of Month show for 2011 last week. Joining the boys this month were Coolgrass, who made the trek down the highway from Melbourne to entertain the crowd with their unique and irreverent take on Bluegrass, [...]
The Strzelecki Stringbusters launch new website. The Strzelecki Stringbusters (the stringbusters) is a 14 piece string band featuring guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, fiddle, double bass and harmonica. This group plays many styles of music from bluegrass and western swing to country and the blues. The band members live, work and play in the hills around [...]
Submitted by John Werner – Victoria David Long and his entourage have finished up their east coast tour of Australia at one of the country’s newest and emerging bluegrass and acoustic music venues – the Yinnar Hotel. The band were engaged to play the Redlands Bluegrass Convention earlier in July this year, and thanks to [...]
Submitted by John Werner – Victoria. John Werner and Garry Roberts continue their journey in search of music. Here they are in Virginia taking in more of that famous southern hospitality and hot picking. On Sunday afternoon, we headed back up to the Grayson Highlands National Park for a cookout and jam organised by Martha [...]
As they near their last few days in the USA our intrepid travelers John Werner and Garry Roberts head of to the Wayne Henderson Festival in Virginia. Their story continues: Friday evening saw us attending the Blue Ridge Music Centre, located outside Galax on the famous Blue Ridge Parkway, for an outdoor concert headed up [...]
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