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Murrurundi is Getting Ready to Rock! By Laura Sykes

Taking inspiration from the nearby Pages River, the White Hart Hotel will provide the scene for local music event, ‘Music by the Pages’, next month, and if you purchase your ticket by 30 September, you will receive a $20 voucher to spend at the festival.The event, set for 19 October, is a fundraiser for the John Hunter Children’s Hospital, as well as the Murrurundi Hospital, Murravale Nursing Home and the Frontier Festival.

Headline entertainment ‘Dragon’ will be supported by a mixture of bands; some regulars and some new to the area. ‘The Lamplighters’ lead guitarist, Brendan Pittman, is the grandson of locals Bill and Sue Brown, while the Larkham brothers from Tamworth are reuniting after twenty years of playing in their own bands to bring audience ‘Le Blitz’. Regular White Hart performers, and one of the brothers, Brent, will be launching his latest release at the event. Other supporting acts include regular Matt O’Leary, ‘Crazy Train’ and ‘The Slones’. Main act ‘Dragon’ brings with them a well-founded international fan base and never fail to get the crowds dancing.

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Jesse Vee on the RiseHome grown and doing us proud, Tamworth-local Jesse Vee has been making it in the music industry at only twenty years of age. Following in his distinguished family’s footsteps, the budding, young talent began singing at the age of ten, before picking up the guitar two years later. Jesse’s debut gig was with his fi rst band at Tamworth’s well-known Imperial Hotel, where they wowed the crowd in a ‘Band Search Competition’. With father, Mike Vee, well known for his ‘Whispering Jack’ show and his sister Amy, known internationally for her original music, Jesse is predicted to be just as successful.

With a modern choice of music and an enthusiastic personality, Jesse is the ideal entertainer at any venue with rave reviews from his previous functions. Remember this name because the already-popular Jesse Vee is on the rise and we will no doubt be seeing alot more of him in the future.

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Murrurundi is Getting Ready to Rock! By Laura Sykes

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The White Hart Hotel is no newcomer to putting on a great evening of music and entertainment. With weekly live music from bands from all over the Liverpool Ranges and Upper Hunter and surrounding regions; the French family has made live music as high a priority as quality food and good service in their hotels for the past fifteen years.

Music by the Pages will be held at the White Hart Hotel festival grounds in Murrurundi on 19 October, 2013. Ticket prices are $99 inc. GST plus booking fee. Gates will open at 1pm. Tickets are available now at www.trybooking.com or from the White Hart Hotel, 02 6546 6242. For updates and news you can follow the Facebook page by searching for Music by the Pages Music Festival Murrurundi.

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Images: [Above Left] Amanda Berry, Terry Cox & Kim Watts enjoying the opening [Above Right[ Kirsten McKimmie & Tim Lamacraft with one of the pieces from Craft as Art [Below Right] Murrurundi’s Jean Davies with her work Emirates Crossing [Below Middle] Muswellbrook photographer John Hodges with his extraordinary miniature Barkscape [Below Right] Scone artist Teresa Byrne with one of Jean Davies works


Opening Night of New Exhibitions at Arts CentreCraft as Art: Australian Ceramics from the Collections 1971-2012

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Miniatures XVI: Local artists explore the small

The Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre saw the opening night of three new exhibitions last Friday. The opening night crowd was treated to the first time in the arts centre’s history that all the ceramic artists in Muswellbrook’s permanent Collections were on display. The ceramics ranged from tiny boxes and pots to complex statues over a metre tall. Arts centre manager, Brad Franks addressed the guests saying that, “This exhibition Craft as Art captures the period in Australian ceramics when great changes took place as the studio potters gave way to the artist as craftsperson and the functional object became a showpiece and then a sculpture. These changes didn’t happen overnight and the works in this show cover the period from 1971 to 2012”.

As well as Craft as Art the evening also saw the opening of Murrurundi artist Jean Davies exhibition: Follow the Page. Jean is well known for her excellent mastery of pastel and watercolour and this exhibition of scenes along the Pages River allows her skills and love of the river to shine. It is an exceptional exhibition by a local artist and not to be missed. Jean was thrilled on the night to have a large contingent of supporters from Murrurundi attend the opening. The night also saw heavy sales of Jean’s very collectable works.

In the centre court gallery the ever popular Miniatures exhibition series reached number XVI. This is quite an achievement for local artists from across the Upper Hunter with seventy eight tiny artworks on display including wire sculptures, embroidery, silverpoint, watercolour and drawings in ink, pastel and graphite. Many of these works are also for sale and it is a terrific opportunity to acquire and support local artists.

The exhibitions were opened by the Deputy Mayor of Muswellbrook Shire Councillor Malcolm Ogg.

The Craft as Art exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour illustrated and informative catalogue of the ceramics collection and this publication will be launched at the Muswellbrook Creative Arts Fair being held on Saturday 5 October 2013 between 10.00am and 3.00pm at The Pot House in Lion’s Park, Lower Brook Street, Muswellbrook.

The opening night was sponsored by Stone Hill Vineyard, Hunter Belle Cheese and the Mad Hatter Café.

The exhibitions are on display at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre until Sunday 27th October 2013.

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Creating a Quilting Tradition in SconeBy Laura Sykes

Scone High School P&C is proud to announce their second quilt show to be presented next month from 25 - 27 October. With the success of the initial event, the staff and parents of the school are excited to exhibit their latest quilting masterpieces ranging from traditional to contemporary art quilts in this upcoming exhibition.The exhibition will open on Thursday 24 October with an invitation-only function in the school’s library, where the exhibition will be housed throughout its duration, closing on its final day at 2pm on Sunday 27 October.

Tea and refreshments will be available at the exhibition. Entry cost is $5 per person, with all proceeds going towards Scone High School’s P&C. There will also be a raffle on offer, with a first prize of a stunning quilt made by the group along with several other quilting-themed minor prizes.

Several local business houses from Tamworth, Scone and Muswellbrook have pledged their support for the event and will have stalls featuring a range of quilting and crafting products on offer. Come along to not only support a great cause but find some inspiration among the spectacular range of traditional and contemporary art quilts on display.

Coinciding with the Scone High School P&C’s quilt show will also be the Beef Bonanza event plus the Department of Primary Industry Rural Women’s Gathering – all three events are heavily participated in by Scone High School with pride and enthusiasm.

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Top Class Dressage Comes to the Upper HunterLocal dressage enthusiasts will once again have the chance to compete against the state’s top dressage riders at the upcoming Upper Hunter Dressage Association competition on September 29. The event will be the last official competition for the year that the local club will be holding, following on from the association’s successful championships in July. The event will be held at White Park in Scone and will commence from 8.30am with a number of arenas in operation. Spectators will be well catered for, with a full canteen in operation and plenty of quality horses on show. Local riders, Robyne Smith and Lisa Martin, who will have just returned from competing at the state dressage championships will be taking part along with other local riders.

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A Tranquil Hunter Valley Retreat for MaresThe fringe of the northern boundary of the ancient Wollemi National Park, one which stretches from the Blue Mountains to a frontier to the Upper Hunter Valley and one which, in its mysterious depths, hosts a coniferous tree dubbed the Wollemi Pines estimated to be 200 million years old, has nurtured some of the most fertile soils in the region.

Bisected by the Hunter River, it is a region headquartered by the village of Jerrys Plains that attracted its pioneer settlers in the 1820’s and which has enjoyed reverence now for nearly two centuries for the quality of the cattle and horses it produces.

It is currently a byword for thoroughbred excellence that has been generated by world-breeding and racing giant - Coolmore’s complex situated on the outskirts of the village and further west along the Hunter river at Woodlands; a leading stud farm under George Ryder (post World War 11 to the 1970s), the Inghams for a quarter century and today by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley empire.

Besides these conglomerates, there are other breeding farms in the Jerrys Plains district including a fairly recent newcomer which under the banner of Retreat Thoroughbreds has been developed in the nearby Apple Tree Flat Valley as a tranquil retreat for broodmares owned by breeders who do not have their own facilities or are outside the Hunter Valley.

Although it is new in providing a Hunter Valley base for broodmares, its principle, Allen Barry is the fifth successive generation of his family since the mid 1980s to produce stock in the Apple Tree Flat Valley, a short drive away from Jerrys Plains and almost within ‘coo-ee’ of Coolmore. They are a branch of the Barry family very well known in the nearby Denman district.

The abundantly-watered Apple Tree Flat Valley is rather unique in that it is bordered on three sides by the Wollemi and consequently over the centuries has been enriched by the flow down from the mountains.

As is indicated by the accompanying photo, Retreat Thoroughbreds Farm is a picturesque undulating property with a wide variety of healthy trees and a mountain backdrop that looks like it would be an ideal home for broodmares and their offspring to find contentment.

Image: A view of Retreat Thoroughbreds, an agistment farm in the Wollemi nurtured Apple Tree Flat valley near Coolmore in the Hunter Valley.


Tartuca Features Artist Margo HumphriesLake Macquarie visual artist and 2013 Hunter Business Awards finalist, Margo Humphries, is holding her next solo art exhibition at Chocolate Hills Tartuca Espresso Bar Bistro, Denman from 1-31 October 2013 with all artworks for sale.From an early age Margo always enjoyed drawing and painting and has found it to be a form of meditation where she enters into another world and feels relaxed and focused. When Margo was only 12 years of age, she entered the Walkom-Manning Art Prize when she won the Children of the Manning Youth Award with ‘Wingham Brush’.

Margo taught herself to paint by studying books and other artists’ works, and has developed her own style; painting many different subjects and experimenting with different techniques. She was selected as one of ten artists for the Mattara Festival’s Inaugural Outdoor Art Exhibition and her ‘Look up in the Sky Tonight’ was draped over Newcastle Panthers in October 2011 - ten buildings participated in the art trail.

In 2012 Margo’s t-shirt design, The Line Up, made the final twenty in Redbubble’s SXSW t-shirt competition for New York band The Big Sleep, and she has also been involved in many community projects including the 2002 Peoplescape project in Taree.

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Travel to Malaysia with LaCityBy Laura Sykes

Tired of putting aside those dreams of visiting exotic lands, sampling new foods, and learning about other cultures? Well now you don’t have to wait, because next year is officially ‘Visit Malaysia Year 2014’!Tourism Malaysia is teaming up with travel agencies around the world to promote the area as a major, global, travel destination. With each month offering something new in the campaign, there will be events and attractions year round to suit anyone looking for their next adventure.

January 18 - 20 will kick off the official programme of events with the biggest tourism carnival ever to be held at Bukit Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, plus several other events also running including the Royal Langkawi International Regatta. Formula One fans will love the Sepang International Circuit in March while culinary buffs will be tantalised in October when a three-month-long Fabulous Food Malaysia feast kicks off.

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Clean Team for AberdeenThe Scone and Aberdeen Neighbourhood Centre recently announced the appointment of a ‘Clean Team’.

Lee Watts manager of the Scone and Aberdeen Neighbourhood Centre said, “A group of enthusiastic volunteers put up their hands at a community meeting last week to take on the role to educate visitors and the community on how important it is to get that litter in the bin. The grant that we have received from Keep Australia Beautiful will enable us to tidy up and reduce risks from fires and snakes.”

Co-ordinator for the project, Elizabeth Birch stated, “The volunteers who make up the ‘Clean Team’ are very keen to get started. They will be easily recognised in their green ‘Clean Team’ t-shirts as they go about cleaning Jockey Park. We have noticed people using the park - this number will only increase with the upcoming school holidays. There are many residents who already take great pride in keeping their yards and streets tidy and rubbish free; a clean landscape makes the town look more appealing to everyone. If everyone does their bit, we will be able to win the battle over litter.”

Over the next few weeks the Aberdeen ‘Clean Team’ will undertake a litter audit to identify other public areas that could be included in the clean up.

The Scone & Aberdeen Neighbourhood Centre would like to congratulate the volunteers that have taken the initiative to help make Aberdeen a more attractive place for families and visitors.

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Local Walking Tracks for all to Enjoy By Laura Sykes

With rising temperatures and longer days upon us at last, now is the perfect time to get outside and enjoy some of the many walking tracks that your local area has to offer.

Whether you enjoy hiking through stunning wilderness and national parks, or seeing the sites of the towns is more your cup of tea, there is something for everyone in the Upper Hunter. An impressive variety of walking tracks are available from historical walks through Denman, Murrurundi and Aberdeen to Burning Mountain at Wingen and Giant’s Leap at Sandy Hollow.

Muswellbrook, Scone and Merriwa also offer recommended walking routes throughout each town that will take you past dozens of locations of both historic and local interest. Walk for as long or as little as you like, and enjoy the shops and cafes that each town has to offer along the way.

For the more energetically inclined, Barrington Tops NP, Lake Glenbawn and other National Parks and designated areas around the Upper Hunter offer a number of walking tracks of varying lengths and difficulty.

Whether you’re after a relaxing stroll or are looking for a challenge, there is an official walking track in the Upper Hunter to suit you. More information about each track can be found at http://www.upperhuntercountry.com or by getting in touch with your local information centre.

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Big Plans for the Royal HotelBy Laura Sykes

The Royal Hotel in Muswellbrook is set to undergo some big plans for improvement under the helm of Allan and Lisa Moxham who could barely resist the opportunity to take up ownership of a hotel with such a long and colourful history.Built on the first block of land to be sold in Muswellbrook back in 1834, the Royal Hotel has been running as licensed premises since its completion the following year. The building that stands today isn’t the original, which burnt down in 1893.

After working in the club and hotel industry for several years, the Moxham’s dream of owning their own pub became a reality when they purchased the freehold of the Royal Hotel in Muswellbrook. Moving to the area from the Central Coast, it didn’t take long to realise that their five-year lease on the premises wasn’t going to be long enough to achieve all they had in mind. From there, the decision to make the purchase was an easy one.

“We realised we were very well suited to this business and decided to buy the freehold,” Allan says. “We have big plans for the improvement of the hotel and have been told by many patrons that our bistro has the best pub grub around.”

“Lisa manages the bistro while our chef, Michael Simon guarantees a great feed; our bar staff including Karen, Dimm, Jeff and Rick are some of the best bartenders around.”

One newly introduced feature at the pub that is proving popular with customers is the fortnightly addition of ‘Funked up Friday’. DJ’s and entertainment for the nights are sourced from across the country, hailing from Queensland to Sydney and Newcastle. Live entertainment is also available on every other Friday night, with karaoke running on Saturdays.

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Railway Hotel, MuswellbrookSunday 22 September Ryan Sampson @ 4pm Free AdmissionRoyal Hotel, MuswellbrookFriday 27 September Plastic Spurs @ 8.00pm Free admissionThe Railway Hotel, MuswellbrookSunday 29 September Chris White @ 4.00pm Free AdmissionRailway Hotel, MuswellbrookSunday 6 October Simply Bushed @ 3.30pm Free admissionWhite Hart Hotel MurrurundiSaturday 19 October @ 1.00pm ‘Music by the Pages Music Festival’ Admission $99 incl GST

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