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Karen Davis, from Hervey Bay, chats with Waterhole Rocks organiser Terry Mackrell, along with friends Kevin Brand, Maryborough, and Jan and Marc Chapman, Hervey Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 20, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

A $5500 grant from Nanango’s Heritage Community Bank which allowed organisers of The Waterhole Rocks festival to add a giant dance floor to the event has proved to be a winner.<\/p>\n

More than 500 guests packed into the festival which was held at Nanango’s showgrounds over the weekend.<\/p>\n

It was the biggest crowd the event has attracted since the idea for a weekend-long rock’n’roll festival began in 2012.<\/p>\n

Guests came to enjoy displays of veteran and vintage cars, hot rods and caravans; rock’n’roll memorabilia; and – of course! – lots of energetic rock’n’roll dancing.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Heritage Community Bank gave the festival’s organisers a grant to purchase a portable dance floor after guests at previous festivals had complained the concrete floor in the Showground’s main pavilion wasn’t suitable for rock’n’roll dance styles.<\/p>\n

The giant dance floor was erected just days before this year’s festival, but word spread quickly amongst the tightly knit rock and roll dance community.<\/p>\n

Guests travelled from Bundaberg, Maryborough, Hervey Bay, Tweed Heads, Brisbane and Toowoomba – and several even came from Coffs Harbour and Lismore – to take advantage of the new dance floor.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had nothing but positive feedback this year,” Terry Mackrell, from the South Burnett Gas Guzzlers, said.<\/p>\n

“There were several times on Friday and Saturday night when the dance floor was so packed you couldn’t fit any more dancers onto it.<\/p>\n

“It’s just fantastic.”<\/p>\n

Nanango Show Society president Les Schloss agreed.<\/p>\n

“This dance floor is brilliant and crowd numbers are well up on last year,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We couldn’t be happier.”<\/p>\n

Festival organisers are now considering enlarging the dance floor at next year’s festival by moving one or two of the main pavilion’s walls further back.<\/p>\n

“We could probably get an extra 10 or 20 metres if we did that,” Terry said.<\/p>\n

“The dance floor would be just vast.”<\/p>\n

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Cutting the 3rd birthday cake – Nanango Show Society president Les Schloss, Rhonda Mackrell from the South Burnett Gas Guzzlers and Gloria and Barry Fleming from the Nanango Show Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mark and Michelle Peters and Gary Oaten, all from Bundaberg, dressed for a rock’n’roll weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Many guests spent Saturday afternoon practising their dance moves on the festival’s new dance floor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Members of the TT Rockers dance club travelled from Tweed Heads to dance the night away in full rock’n’roll style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The festival also included displays of hot rods and vintage caravans, like this 1923 T-bucket hot rod<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Rock & roll band Shazam kept the crowds packing the dance floor on Saturday night with classic 1950s and 1960s dance tunes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The new dance floor proved so popular that it was completely full on many occasions over the weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Festival organisers paid special tribute to Nanango’s Heritage Community Bank, which provided the funding that allowed a dance floor to be added to this year’s event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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