Our town has a new guitar star. Wauchope-based guitarist Anthony Baxter has really found his niche in the music world over the past 12 months. And he has eight shows at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
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Winning the Clarence Valley Muster walk-up at Ulmarra in October meant a $2,000 recording contract at Lindsay Waddington studios.
Anthony has also been very active over the past few months - he was nominated as a finalist in the Gold Medallion Media Award for the Musician of the Year competition which will be announced during the Tamworth Country Music Festival from today, Friday January 19 to January 28.
The talented young player is also a finalist in the Stan Coster Memorial Award for Duo of the Year.
“It’s been an amazing few months,” said Anthony.
“And I’m really looking forward to Tamworth. It will be wonderful to experience the atmosphere, and I’m delighted to have been nominated for two awards.”
He also has performances lined up in Kempsey in February, Cessnock in March, Nabiac and Kempsey in April and Bundaberg in Queensland in May where he will perform for seven days for the Coads Country Muster.
He has more gigs lined up during the rest of the year.
Letitia Fitzpatrick
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
