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Sisters Myrtle Johnstone and Joyce Walker were very happy campers indeed; they travelled down from Mackay to spend a full week enjoying the music at the Muster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 27, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett played host to more than a thousand tourists last week when 500 caravans and RVs packed Boondooma Homestead’s grounds for the annual Spirit Of The Bush Heritage and Bush Balladeers Muster.<\/p>\n

Organiser Buddy Thomson said he was delighted with attendance numbers, which were up on last year.<\/p>\n

The popular five-day music festival has been held around Anzac Day for the last 15 years and features an average of 50 bush balladeering artists, along with walk-up acts.<\/p>\n

Many Muster performers – such as well-known South Burnett balladeer Dean Perrett – are nationally famous.<\/p>\n

The historic Homestead also holds an Anzac Day service on April 25th so guests don’t miss out on this important national observance.<\/p>\n

This year the Homestead’s Anzac Day commemoration took on a slightly different tone when it was led by a rare World War I foot locker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The foot locker was bought to the fesrtival by long-time guest Jim Dutton, who normally lives in Mackay but has made an annual pilgrimage to Boondooma for the last 14 years.<\/p>\n

Jim and his friend, Boondooma Homestead’s famous Kevin “Brownie” Brown, led the march.<\/p>\n

Highland piping for this year’s commemoration was supplied by Alan Eagleson from Mon-Dee Coffee 2 Go, who had a coffee stand on site for the full five days.<\/p>\n

“The piper who was arranged for last year’s service didn’t show up and the organisers had to supply the music from a CD,” Alan said.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think that sounded very good, so this year I bought my own bagpipes along to help out.”<\/p>\n

The real magnet of the Muster, though, is the country music, the camp oven cooking, the relaxed camaraderie and camping out. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Buddy said a lot of guests booked in for the entire week, though there were plenty of day-trippers and weekend visitors too.<\/p>\n

This year’s attendance numbers had put a bit of a strain on the Homestead’s kitchen – which kept running out of food – but new supplies were quickly brought in to feed the ravenous crowd.<\/p>\n

“The weather was fabulous all week too, which was a big plus,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Things were a little bit windy on Sunday, but all the rest of the week was just perfect.”<\/p>\n

The Muster is one of the Homestead’s two major annual fundraisers.<\/p>\n

The other is the Scots In The Bush celtic festival, which will be held on August 14-16.<\/p>\n

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Popular country music performer Anita Ree was one of almost 50 professional acts who entertained the crowd over the course of five days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jan and Rob Newman travelled down from Gayndah for the weekend to catch some of their favourite acts and take in the Homestead’s historic surroundings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Muster is famous for its variety, and lively acts like Velcro kept toes tapping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Boondooma Homestead’s extensive grounds were awash with caravans and RVs all week, packed so densely they could be seen from the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Most of the acts performed undercover in the Homestead’s main building, right next to the camp oven kitchen and gift shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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