Every 1st Sunday of the month, the Visitor Centre hosts FREE live music…….. Matt Scullion and Lawrie Minson, Tamworth’s musical geniuses, will once again be playing at Banalasta, on Sunday 4th November, 12-3pm.Haling originally from Sydney, Matt Scullion has traveled extensively across Australia, USA and India and has written and recorded songs for the likes of American legends in Nashville, USA, for Cathy Louvin, Mark Chestnut and Steve Ford; and in Australia for Tom Curtain and the Davidson Brothers, Tanya Kernaghan, Bobby Cash and Jonahs Road. In December 2006 Matt headed over to the Middle East to perform for the troops to boost morale.

Matt started his musical career at 16 with his first guitar purchase and has made the finals for best new talent at the Victorian country music awards, made the semi-finals and finals in the Music Oz awards at various times and has also been nominated for a Golden Guitar. He has also won various industry awards such as the ICE award (Independent Country Entertainer) for best country rock performance and has received rave reviews throughout his musical career as an independent artist and also with his various bands.

Matt and his band, The Lost Moments, headlined 4 big shows at the 2007 Tamworth Country Music Festival to great success and also signed a record/publishing deal with Rajon Music at the beginning of this year.

Multi-instrumentalist from Tamworth, Lawrie is a 4 time Golden Guitar winner and is the son of legendary radio broadcaster ‘Mr Hoedown’, John Minson. Lawrie has recorded and toured with the biggest names in the industry, Buddy Williams, Slim Dusty, Jimmy Barnes, James Blundell, Gina Jeffreys, Sara Storer, Ross Wilson and Trisha Yearwood, to name a few! Lawrie has played on all of lee Kernaghan’s albums and has now been a member of his touring band for the past 14years. Lawrie has also produced 2 albums for India’s only country artist, Bobby Cash.

Lawrie hosts a monthly country songwriter’s night in Tamworth and the Hohner Golden Harmonica championships every January.

He has released several award winning albums including ‘Memories of Home’, ‘Family Tree’ and ‘In Another World’.

We look forward to seeing you enjoy yourselves at the Visitor Centre.

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