This year’s Making Music in Manjimup Festival was a huge success leaving a legacy of happy hearts and lighter living across the community post festival.
One of the initiatives for this year’s festival was a song writing competition where entrants had to compose words to a well know bluegrass song or tune while including the words Live Lighter” and “Manjimup”. The Live Lighter campaign was the message delivered through the Western Australian Healthways, Health Promotion Foundation that was one of the major sponsors for the festival weekend.
The Queensland based group were the feature band for the weekend and the songwriting completion judges. Their selection was a song written by Kathy Hill, using the melody to the well-known traditional song “Will The Circle Be Unbroken”. The Company performed the winning song at the main concert on Saturday night of the festival after the announcement of the winner and award presentation.
Here is a video clip of the evening featuring The Company.
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I’ll Live Lighter and Live Long
I was roamin’ round West Aussie, a little lost, and fancy free
When I heard about some bluegrass, way down south among the trees
Chorus:
So to Man-jim-up I’ll wander, find an active, healthy path
There’ll be music through the village, happiness will warm our hearts
I had passed my mid-life crises, and was on that down hill roll
Could this bluegrass lift my spirits, that’s the question in my soul
Zeniths Music had some banjos, And as well, a cool guitar
I plucked those strings, and knocked a tune out, hey, now this could take me far
Chorus:
So to Man-jim-up I wandered, found that active, healthy path
Music echoed through the village, happiness sure warmed our hearts
I headed down the Harvest Highway, to those fertile fields so green
Found the Southern Forest Food Bowl, where the arctic wind blows clean
So to Man-jim-up I wandered, found that active, healthy path
Music echoed through the village, happiness sure warmed our hearts
So come on you Manji people, join The Company, join the throne
You’ll see me smiling, hear me singing, I’ll live lighter and live long
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