Wolfe Brothers hope to snare their first Golden Guitar award
THEY’VE received a fair share of nominations but next year country rock band The Wolfe Brothers hope they will finally take home their first Golden Guitar.
With five nominations the band, along with country music queen Kasey Chambers’s seven nominations, lead the Tamworth Country Music Festival Golden Guitar awards nominees announcement yes- terday in Sydney. “Thirteen nominations and 13 losses, not that I’m counting,” Tom Wolfe joked to AAP.
“I feel like this is our best work so if we are going to get one I feel it probably would be [ this]. I’m positive forecasting.”
Young talent broke out into multiple categories including the Hunter Valley’s Tori Forsyth who was nominated for New Talent of the Year, Fe- male Artist of The Year and Alternative Country Album of the Year.
Forsyth’s alternative country style show was so popular at last year’s festival she had to be upgraded to a larger venue.
“There is such a diverse amount of country music that plays there now,” she said.
“You can kind of get whatever you are into. I think it’s really special it’s a music festival that caters for all the different sub- genres.” The award’s night on January 26 will be hosted by musicians Amber Lawrence and Adam Brand.
“In January every year no matter where you are in Australia all roads lead to Tamworth,” Brand said.
More than 700 performers across 2000 events will entertain the 300,000 fans that will swarm to Tamworth come January 18 for a week of the country fun. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the Toyota Star Maker competition which has helped launch the likes of Keith Urban, Travis Collins, Beccy Cole and more.
A special concert will be held at the festival featuring 28 previous Star Maker winners.
NOMINEES: Male Artist of the Year: John Williamson, Butcherbird; Graeme Connors, from the backcountry; Travis Collins, Brave & the Broken; Andrew Swift, Call Out for the Cavalry; Adam Harvey, The Nashville Tapes.
Female Artist of the Year: Beccy Cole, Lioness; Imogen Clark, Collide; Tori Forsyth, Dawn of the Dark; Kristy Cox, Ricochet; Missy Lancaster, Piece of Me.