The Singing Shearer
HIGHFIELDS Pioneer Village are pleased to welcome a new regular volunteer and one with a passion for entertaining.
For the past 30 years Terry Arnold has run a successful farming and grazing property and is a wheat and sheep man.
Terry has been riding horses for over 60 years and operating machinery and motor bikes for half a century.
“I have processed and classed my own wool and competed in many shearing competitions over the years, I have developed many friends in the industry many of whom I have known for 50 plus years,” Terry Arnold said.
He has had a varied and colourful life working as a barman at various clubs and working as an entertainer for the past 25 years at some very interesting venues.
“I played not only the pub circuit, but the country shows, race meets, rodeos and shearing competitions, woolsheds and literally hundreds of weddings.
“It has been great and certainly kept me busy I can tell you,” he said.
For the past eight years Terry has focused on tourism.
“I travelled to China and Europe and in recent years worked for Lone-Pine Sanctuary entertaining the visitors there.”
Today, Terry and his wife Carmel currently run a very successful Bed and Breakfast venture in Warwick.
“It certainly keeps us on our toes but I just love coming to Highfields and entertaining the tourists there,” Terry said.
Terry will be entertaining at the Highfields Pioneer Village on the January 26, shearing a sheep at 10.45am and 1.15pm and playing a variety of music to suit all crowds.
There will be mini-steam train rides for the kids, Minimarkets and food, a damper making competition, face painting, Aboriginal dance workshop and bucket making with David Harriman.
There will even an official award ceremony at 2pm.
For more information please visit the Village Facebook page or phone the Village office on 07 4696 6309.