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Drive ten hours for a half hour gig: Nathan Cavaleri has the passion for blues

Nathan Cavaleri tells a cute story on his website about the time he met greatness and didn't recognise him.

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Minnie Marks, guitarist, young, having fun, not afraid to take a chance

She's got a big blues voice and the kind of guitar playing that had Lloyd Spiegel in raptures.

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Dancing, chatting, midnight munching: the people at the Blues

A video slideshow as day turns to night, at the Blues at Bridgetown.

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Nat Col and the Kings photo gallery Blues at Bridgetown

When the vapour coming off drummer Col Hatchman wasn't just from the smoke machine

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Crafty frolics and family fun at the Windy Harbour Regatta

The home made boats will fly, or maybe flounder, over the southern ocean on the weekend as locals and visitors vie for line honours and dodge the flour bombs.

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From Bunbury to the big time: Corey Colum

Love travel, love music, love the family. Corey Colum has it made if he can combine all three.

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Regional venues back live music push

When the music industry celebrates SLAM Day this year, the movement that began in the inner city will spread to regional towns across the country.

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Hopes surfers boost south west image marred by attacks

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Willie Nelson never sang about bullet bunnies

Gleny Rae Virus and the Tamworth Playboys swing into the Folkworld Fairbridge Festival bringing with them a music that was fired in Nashville and tempered by NSW

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Folkworld Fairbridge Festival close up in pictures

Images from the 2013 Folkworld Fairbridge Festival

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Fairbridge Folkworld Festival video

Buskers, markets, kids, colour and music, music, music at this year's festival in Pinjarra

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How to sell your book idea to a publisher

Know your audience if you want to get your book published.

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Nannup blossoms in beauty - slideshow

Nannup is green, red, white and gold in time for the Flower and Garden festival this weekend.

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David Wenham on acting, directing, and being a performing monkey

One of Australia's most loved actors answers questions from the audience at a CinefestOz function.

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Kids flip, trip and fly at the WA Circus Festival

Circus performers from around Australia and the world start training kids in the state's south west ahead of the Western Australian Circus Festival.

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What's new and appening in social media

Big, little and screens in between. A web presence needs to work on everything from mobile to desktop says a social media expert.

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Regional music festival Groovin The Moo puts Bunbury on the map

Australian electronic music duo The Presets is planning to shake things up at this year's Groovin The Moo festival in Bunbury.

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Old Australian stories turned into new Australian music

Things of Stone and Wood instrumentalist teams up with Archie Roach guitarist for Arden and Brady

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Australia's richest film prize on offer from the South West

The first ever CinefestOz Film Prize will be awarded in 2014 for excellence in Australian filmmaking.

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Bunbury Youth Councillors have grown up plans for the City

Youth mayor and deputy mayor Sean Smith and Jack Manoni want to give Bunbury a kick along

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Fairbridge Festival brings up the family

Children who were in prams when the Fairbridge Festival began 22 years ago, took to the stage to perform in 2014.

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Youth festival planned by young people

A festival of arts, all genres, using local and outside expertise. That doesn't sound anything out of the ordinary. Except that this festival will be organised by a group of 14 to 19 year olds.

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An extraordinary life in film

From Skippy to Redfern Story, Sue Milliken has led an a very interesting life

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Keeping James Cameron alive at the deepest point of the ocean

John Garvin had James Cameron's life in his hands. The deep sea diver and screenwriter worked with Cameron on the film maker's latest documentary, Deepsea Challenger.

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Award winning film shows teenagers the beauty of the real world

A young introverted girl who doesn't see the value of life was the idea behind the winning film in the Cine-snaps student short film competition in Busselton.

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Southbound music festival promoters fail in attempt to move to rural property

Southbound music festival's attempt to create a 'Woodstock like' festival knocked back by Margaret River residents.

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Bluegrass: great tunes at breakneck speed

Bluegrass fiddle and banjo champion player George Jackson is heading to Manjimup for the Bluegrass Weekend

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There's no write or wrong way to craft songs: young people are invited to...

Fairbridge Festival is giving young songwriters the opportunity to hone their skills ahead of the festival's Youth Songwriting competition. The Quest workshops will be held in January and February in...

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Fashions in fireworks: new fireworks for Bunbury this Australia Day

The sky lights up. Bang, swoosh, thump and thud. Oooh, says the crowd. The fireworks have started. Bunbury will see WA's biggest display outside of Perth this Monday.

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Young musician Siobhan Cotchin has had her best year ever thanks to the...

In 2014, the Nannup Music Festival audience voted Siobhan Cotchin of Perth as the winner of the Emerging Artist award. Siobhan was thrilled but she wasn't to realise how many doors the award would open.

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Fairbridge Festival has been successful in send vast tonnages of waste to...

Fairbridge Festival has turned two thirds of its rubbish into recycling and compost. It is an example of festivals being more conscious about their effect on the environment.

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Aussie birdsong inspires Canadian musician on an ancient Japanese instrument

Toronto musician Jessica Stuart will introduce the ancient Japanese koto to WA audiences at the Fairbridge Festival this weekend.

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Fairbridge Festival finale in photos: Mic Conway and Baka Beyond

Sunday night at the Mandja marquee capturing the fun and dancing and the great festival feeling after two and a half days of non-stop music

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Holiday accommodation scam targets music fans heading to Groovin the Moo...

A scam falsely advertising local homes as holiday accommodation targets fans travelling to a popular music festival in the WA town of Bunbury.

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Police and rally officials continue investigation of the WA Forest Rally crash

The death of a child watching the WA Forest Rally will be thoroughly investigated says a former rally champion

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Australia's richest film prize again on offer at CinefestOz

Australian director Robert Connelly is in no doubt that winning the first ever CinefestOz film prize helped make Paper Planes the success it was.

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Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival: the art of writing about sport

Steve Butler is a senior reporter at the West Australian newspaper. He's written hundreds of thousands of words on the subject of sport in his two and a half decades of writing for the press.

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The Nannup Garden Festival takes you into the night garden

Tulips, daffodils, tulips and more tulips. You know you're at the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival in August when there are tulips everywhere

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Art Break entices passersby to try a bit of art and craft in downtown Bunbury

Shoppers and workers could try their hand at tapestry, badge making, and flag making during the first Art Break event organised by the City of Bunbury

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Bunbury Pridefest stirs memories of first Sydney Mardi Gras for WA man

It has been 37 years between firsts for Peter Keogh, but he reckoned it was worth the wait.

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Southbound festival: Special benefit show to raise money for WA bushfire victims

Music festival Southbound announces a special benefit show to help raise money for those affected by the WA bushfire.

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Southbound music festival in Western Australia moving from January to December

Western Australia's biggest music festival Southbound is moving from January to December, after promoters were forced to cancel this year's concert when bushfires swept through parts of the South-West.

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Festivals are the lifeblood of small country towns

As the pub circuit for live music fades, festivals such as Nannup play an important part in the development of young bands and solo acts.

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Venom expert Bryan Grieg Fry visits Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival

Snake stories, science fiction, and self-publishers are all on the agenda at this year's Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival.

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Ben Elton begins shooting of Australian feature film in regional WA

The Black Adder writer is turning to an Australian music festival for inspiration in his new film.

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Gympie Music Muster: What does it take to be a muster fanatic?

There are certain rituals you do each season, but for these Gympie Music Muster fanatics winter is the cue to pack up and set up camp in Queensland's Amamoor State Forest.

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WA rodeo community saves popular Boyup Brook event after death of organiser's...

Western Australia's rodeo community bands together to save one of the most popular events on its calendar, after the organiser lost his wife to leukemia and could not continue alone.

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Signing Santa elicits laughter, tears of joy from hearing impaired children...

An Auslan-trained Santa brings joy to deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their families during a meet and greet at a shopping centre in Western Australia's South West.

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Music and magical moments at Tamworth Country Music Festival 2018

Tamworth's population doubles as country music lovers move in at festival time.

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Boyup Brook Country Music Festival concerned scalping website could lead to...

Organisers of Boyup Book's famous Country Music Festival, in Western Australia's south-west, are concerned underhand tactics by a ticket re-selling website will have a detrimental impact on this week's...

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