New South Wales
TamworthFamous for its annual world-class country music festival, Tamworth is a hub for country music lovers, as well as rodeo fans and people wanting to explore the flavours of its emerging food and wine scene.Each year, the bustling town hosts the ten-day Tamworth Country Music Festival, which is both the largest music festival in the southern hemisphere and one of the top ten festivals in the world.
Despite these close ties with country music (a relationship solidified by the construction of the famous 12 metres high Golden Guitar), there's a lot more than music to discover in this culturally rich and naturally beautiful country city.
The breathtaking Tamworth region is dotted with pristine waterways and beautiful national parks, offering ample opportunities for bushwalking, rock climbing, paragliding and off-road adventures, fishing, and bird watching.
Accessible by car, plane or train, and at only five hours from Sydney and seven hours from Brisbane, there's nothing to do but breathe in that fresh country air.
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Visit the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame
An unmatched collection of memorabilia from Australian Country music artists.
The Country Music Hall of Fame is now open at its new location in Tamworth. The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, including the Walk a Country Mile exhibit, features an unmatched collection of memorabilia from Australian Country music artists.
Displaying clothing, musical instruments and other collectibles from the earliest pioneers of Australian country music such as Smoky Dawson, Buddy Williams, Tex Morton June Holms, Shirley Thoms right through to current artists Beccy Cole, Adam Harvey, Amber Lawrence and many more. The displays are changed regularly.
Some of the current displays are of The Blanch Family (Arthur, Berice and Jewel) along with their Boomerang guitar. Pitt Family. A stage with Buddy Williams stage clothing and three of the artists who toured around Australia with him.
The Walk A Country Mile display has a range of static displays as well as videos depicting the history of Tamworth and the Australian Country music stories
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