2011
Emu near Goondiwindi. Camel near Uluru. Wallaby near Katherine. Mum hit an already dead roo on the road up to Darwin. That takes skill.
2012
Almost got to perform at our first Festival. Except for the flood.
2015
Mum, Marcus and Ella questioned and almost arrested by Police while busking in Queen St, Brisbane on New Year’s Eve. They looked similar to another Family Band who were on the run!
2017
Queensland Regional Busking Champions – Best Band, Overall and People’s Choice
Australian National Busking Championships – Best Band
2018
Tamworth Country Music Festival Busking Champions
Queensland Regional Busking Champions – Best Band, Overall and People’s Choice
Australian National Busking Champions
2019
ARIA for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album – Various Artists from ABC series The Recording Studio.
Nearly didn’t make it to Ewingar Rising Bushfire Benefit (due to a bushfire). Ironic.
2020
Arts Queensland RADF Grant
Australian Songwriting Association competition shortlist (it was a very long shortlist)
2021
Hermitage located 6km out of Greater Brisbane 3 day COVID lockdown area. The next few got us.
Finalist in Folk Alliance Australia’s inaugural Australian Folk Music Awards – Community/Cultural Project of the Year
Performing Highlights
ABC Radio Darwin – live to air after our first ever busk
Arts Ablaze Festival
Australian Geographic – featured in article about life on Highway One
Australian Light Horse Association President’s Dinner – premiere performance of The Horses Stay Behind (One Last Ride)
Ballina Country Music Fest
BUg Brisbane
Buskers by the Creek, Buskers by the Lake
Byron Markets, NSW
Commonwealth Games Baton Relay
Ewingar Rising Bushfire Benefit
Fires on tops of Mountains
Fremantle Markets, WA
G:2 – opened Stage 2 of the Gold Coast Light Rail
Groundwater
Gympie Music Muster
Hillbilly Hoot radio show, Adelaide
Neurum Creek Music Festival
NightQuarter
Old Bonalbo Soldiers’ Memorial Hall – EP Launch
Peel St, Tamworth – the hottest busking we’ve ever done
Pigstock
Rockin’ the Rainforest
Salamanca Markets, TAS
Snowflakes Festival
Tamworth Country Music Festival
Witches Falls Winery – EP Launch
Woodford Folk Festival (Bushtime)
(If your Festival or venue starts with D, I-Q, U, V, X, Y or Z, please feel free to contact us!)
