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.
View ArticleMinnie 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.
View ArticleDancing, chatting, midnight munching: the people at the Blues
A video slideshow as day turns to night, at the Blues at Bridgetown.
View ArticleNat Col and the Kings photo gallery Blues at Bridgetown
When the vapour coming off drummer Col Hatchman wasn't just from the smoke machine
View ArticleCrafty 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.
View ArticleFrom 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.
View ArticleRegional 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.
View ArticleWillie 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
View ArticleFolkworld Fairbridge Festival close up in pictures
Images from the 2013 Folkworld Fairbridge Festival
View ArticleFairbridge Folkworld Festival video
Buskers, markets, kids, colour and music, music, music at this year's festival in Pinjarra
View ArticleHow to sell your book idea to a publisher
Know your audience if you want to get your book published.
View ArticleNannup blossoms in beauty - slideshow
Nannup is green, red, white and gold in time for the Flower and Garden festival this weekend.
View ArticleDavid 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.
View ArticleKids 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.
View ArticleWhat'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.
View ArticleRegional 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.
View ArticleOld Australian stories turned into new Australian music
Things of Stone and Wood instrumentalist teams up with Archie Roach guitarist for Arden and Brady
View ArticleAustralia'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.
View ArticleBunbury 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
View ArticleFairbridge 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.
View ArticleYouth 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.
View ArticleAn extraordinary life in film
From Skippy to Redfern Story, Sue Milliken has led an a very interesting life
View ArticleKeeping 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.
View ArticleAward 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.
View ArticleSouthbound 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.
View ArticleBluegrass: great tunes at breakneck speed
Bluegrass fiddle and banjo champion player George Jackson is heading to Manjimup for the Bluegrass Weekend
View ArticleThere'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...
View ArticleFashions 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.
View ArticleYoung 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.
View ArticleFairbridge 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.
View ArticleAussie 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.
View ArticleFairbridge 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
View ArticleHoliday 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.
View ArticlePolice 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
View ArticleAustralia'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.
View ArticleMargaret 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.
View ArticleThe 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
View ArticleArt 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
View ArticleBunbury 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.
View ArticleSouthbound 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.
View ArticleSouthbound 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.
View ArticleFestivals 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.
View ArticleVenom 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.
View ArticleBen 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.
View ArticleGympie 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.
View ArticleWA 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.
View ArticleSigning 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.
View ArticleMusic and magical moments at Tamworth Country Music Festival 2018
Tamworth's population doubles as country music lovers move in at festival time.
View ArticleBoyup 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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