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To view photos from the fantastic 2005 Mungindi Music Festival Festival EventsIn addition to the many festival concerts around Mungindi featuring all the visiting ensembles, these special events will also take place: friday Festival Warm Up Groups that have arrived early in Mungindi will be performing on the main street ensuring everyone is in the mood for a weekend of music and fun. Meet and Greet
The Land Sings, The Land Swings
SATURDAY Sunrise to Sunset Let the Piano Play Let the Piano Play concert will give all those piano players a chance to be part of the fun and also instrumentalists who want to perform with David Miller, the resident pianist. Yamaha are shipping one of their fine pianos to the Mungindi Memorial Hall for this event. If you play the piano, come along and play for the most supportive audience in the whole world. If you don't play at your best the first time, come back and play again later on in the day. This event will be co-ordinated by David Miller AM, one of Australia's top pianists and Chair of Ensemble Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium. If you don't play the piano but would like David to accompany you, bring your music - David can sightread anything. This concert will be very informal with the audience coming and going but the music will start at sunrise which is about 5 15am at this time of the year in Mungindi, and not stop until sunset Bird Watching Tour
Join our local bird enthusiasts, Jen and David on an early morning awakening or an afternoon sojourn to local water and timber habitats and experience the surprising range of birds native to our district - from the common Magpie, Butcher Bird, Galah or Parrot to the various common and rare species of Wren, Finch, Honeyeater, and Dove, to the Grey-Crowned Babbler or Rufous Whistler – just a smattering of the scrub birds a timber habitat may reveal - Or at the water’s edge, join our guides in search of Ibis, Cormorants, Pelicans, various common and rare Duck species, varieties of Grebe and so on. Cost: $10 (2x pre-booked tours discount = $15/adult) Secondary Students $5 (Maximum of 12 to a tour. Bird Watchers may attend more than one habitat tour, so avoid disappointment and book early. Please wear suitable dull coloured clothing to blend with the environment. Hat and water canteen recommended) Grand Street Parade All the performers at the Festival will march down the main street from the Memorial Hall to the Park where in the spirit of the Olympics there will be a solemn lighting of the Mungindi Festival Cauldron (44 gallon drum) and Marg Harrison, Festival President, will declare the Festival open. It is hoped that each group marching will make a banner announcing where they are from and the group with the winning banner will be allowed to be at the front of the lunch queue. One Ton Post History Tour
The One Ton Post is the largest wooden survey peg in Australia - must-see for any visitor to Mungindi. The peg was cut and placed by surveyor, John Cameron on the banks of the Barwon River, 3 miles west of Mungindi on the 29th Parallel, (where the straight line of the NSW/ Qld border finishes and the wiggly line starts) - as a testament to Cameron's amazing achievement in surveying and fixing the Inter-Colonial Boundary Line at the 29th Parallel of latitude. Don't miss this one! Guide: Alf Glass Cost: $10 (Secondary Students: $5) Concerts in the CBD
Bus Shelter Blues
We are looking for duos, trios or quartets to perform in the bus shelter during the day. If a bus does by chance stop, the Festival Committee will take full responsibility and their office is just behind the shelter. Tell the bus driver that the shelter has been seconded for the duration of the Festival and whatever happens don't get on the bus because it will take you away from all the Festival Fun. More Concerts in the CBD
Cotton Farm & Gin Tour Gain insight into the A to Z of cotton farming, with a tour to a local mixed operation farm - managed by ‘Roo’ Forster, followed by a tour through our local Namoi Cotton Gin - conducted by District Manager, Drew Hawkins. Learn about the innovative operations, technology, research, machinery and best management practices of successful irrigation and dry land farming. See wheat, oats and cotton in various stages of growth. See first-hand what the processing of cotton entails and gain a healthy respect for our valuable primary industries. Cost:$15 (Students $8) Minimum number of bookings required by August 31 for the cotton gin part of this tour to be available. Early Bookings advised. Even More Concerts in the CBD By this stage of the day you may well feel depressed that in less than 36 hours the Mungindi Festival will be over. You will feel inspired, enriched and fitter than you have for years. Hopefully you will have talked to everyone as they move from one concert to another and life has never been better. Rehearsal Time Festival Orchestra Festival Choir Festival Big Band Street Party - Music on the Pavement Mungindi's main street will be closed off for the biggest music street party ever to be held in a border town. Food stalls will be set up along the street serving delicious country food and there will be music on every street corner. Brother in Concert Brother is an Australian band based in Los Angeles who describe their music as “mongrel music” a combination of rock/world/folk a fusion of bagpipes, didges, delicious vocals and mongrel percussion. Brother has a huge reputation in the US and their soundtrack credits include Baraka, Twilight Zone, and ER and they have toured with Joe Walsh from the Eagles and Colin Hay from Men at Work. Fusing their signature vocals to the deep pulse of the didgeridoo and the soaring highs of the bagpipes, Aussie trio BROTHER blends Rock, Folk, Dance and tribal rhythms in an irresistibly charismatic live show. ...go and get hit over the head with this music...there's just nothing else like it. SUNDAY Bird Watching Tour Join our local bird enthusiasts, Jen and David on an early morning awakening or an afternoon sojourn to local water and timber habitats and experience the surprising range of birds native to our district - from the common Magpie, Butcher Bird, Galah or Parrot to the various common and rare species of Wren, Finch, Honeyeater, and Dove, to the Grey-Crowned Babbler or Rufous Whistler – just a smattering of the scrub birds a timber habitat may reveal - Or at the water’s edge, join our guides in search of Ibis, Cormorants, Pelicans, various common and rare Duck species, varieties of Grebe and so on. Cost: $10 (2x pre-booked tours discount = $15/adult) Secondary Students $5 (Maximum of 12 to a tour. Bird Watchers may attend more than one habitat tour, so avoid disappointment and book early. Please wear suitable dull coloured clothing to blend with the environment. Hat and water canteen recommended) Cotton Farm & Gin Tour Gain insight into the A to Z of cotton farming, with a tour to a local mixed operation farm - managed by ‘Roo’ Forster, followed by a tour through our local Namoi Cotton Gin - conducted by District Manager, Drew Hawkins. Learn about the innovative operations, technology, research, machinery and best management practices of successful irrigation and dry land farming. See wheat, oats and cotton in various stages of growth. See first-hand what the processing of cotton entails and gain a healthy respect for our valuable primary industries. Cost:$15 (Students $8) Minimum number of bookings required by August 31 for the cotton gin part of this tour to be available. Early Bookings advised. Yarrawah Wheat Paddock Concert Baa Lines at the Cleveland Shearing Shed
One Ton Post History Tour For full description see Saturday's tour here
Guides: Alf Glass Rehearsal at the Crossing In preparation for the final Campfire concert we will all cross the border into Queensland and after clearing customs and immigration the Festival Orchestra, Big Band and Choir will rehearse in preparation for the final concert Campfire “Rhythm on the River” Concert
MUSICIANS: PLEASE BRING A LIGHT FOR YOUR MUSIC STAND The Mungindi Music festival is a subcommittee of the Mungindi Progress Association Incorporated Y2937447 |
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This is going to be the most sociable music festival ever so what better way to start the weekend than with drinks and food in the Memorial Hall garden – let the festivities begin. 
Nothing could be more appropriate than to open the The Mungindi Festival at the Memorial Hall with the evocative sound of the Mungindi didgeridoo players? These wonderful musicians will open and close the Festival. The first half of the concert will feature a range of vocalists and choirs. After the interval the jazz will begin featuring various combos and the legendary clarinet, flute and sax player Don Burrows with Kevin Hunt, the leading jazz piano player.
Performances will start all around the Mungindi CBD and the audience can choose to stop off at St James Church on their way to St Josephs Church but there again what is happening in the Library just might be too good to leave. Because of the clever town planners nothing is too far apart in Mungindi.
The good people of Mungindi are extremely proud of their bus shelter on the main street. From the photo you can see that this is a very superior construction and the location is perfect for all the shops. It doesn't really matter that there is no bus service in Mungindi!
Yes, you are getting the idea - all the different venues are within a comfortable stroll. You can cheer on your fellow performers and already you will know Mungindi better that your own home town. 
The historic 15 stand historic Cleveland Shearing Shed will be a wonderful place to drift back in time and sit back and enjoy the music in this rustic location. The audience will be able to relax knowing that no one is going to fleece them and the performers will enjoy shearing their music with ewes. 
This concert will be held on the banks of the Barwon River and will feature the Mungindi Festival Orchestra, Festival Choir and Festival Big Band. The grand finale will have all of Mungindi rocking to the sound of music. The campfires will be blazing and the coolibah trees will be twinkling and music will resound in NSW and Queensland simultaneously.