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Post Info TOPIC: Nambung Country Music Festival up near Cervantes this weekend.


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Nambung Country Music Festival up near Cervantes this weekend.


Anyone else going to this event?. We are going up Friday morning for the weekend then up to Cliff Head or somewhere on the beach  for a spot of fishing for a couple of day. We dont religously watch every act cos we tend to socialise a fair bit!! So if anyone else is going please give me a pm and we can catch up.



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Thanks for this info Sue and Phil, as I was unaware of this festival

I have sent a PM



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Well we are at Nambung and Tony pulled in 15 mins after us...had to have wet the bed and got a super early start to come from Bunbury.
Have lots of photos but there is no phone reception (so much for you beaut blue tick use any where phone!!) and they are all on my phone. Got internet with an external aerial. Lots of people here, easily a 150 vans so far and it doesn't start till 4 pm. Should be a good weekend.
Watched a caravan pull in a while ago.. now these are drive thru sites. How hard is it to do?? simply drive in and switch off would be the norm but no, she gets out with her two way and stands IN FRONT OF CAR directing him forwards, via the 2 way, and he had to back up and do it again as he was on a slight angle to where she was standing.. we are in the middle of a 1000 acre paddock and of course space is at a premium!!
And the genny brigade are alive and well!! Thank goodness there is a 9pm curfew!!

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Hello Sue, Phil, and Len

You were all very good company at the Nambung Country Music Festival, so thank you all very much for that

If you can let Len know that I sampled the fish and chips at Cervantes, on the way home.
He was a bit doubtful, when I mentioned that I had read a bit of a recommendation, that they were OK.
I liked them, but as they say simple minds (such as myself) are easily pleased.

Got back to Bunbury about 9.30 pm this evening, so all is well in this part of the world

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Tony pulled in 15 mins after us...had to have wet the bed and got a super early start to come from Bunbury.

Now I know who has been reading my letters LOL



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We have always had good fish and chips from Cervantes.
200 vans and 550 people passed thru the gates and most were campers..
$10,000 was raised for the various charities and we didn't win any of the raffles either.
A lot left at the end of the day but there would have been 75 vans still there over night . We left about 8 this morning and there had been a steady stream of vans departing from about 6am
On again next year around the same time.
It was a great weekend.

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Went to Nambung again this year

Sorry that you could not make it Sue, and Phil
I have heard that you left hospital on the 27th
Sincerely hope that you can both make it, next year

This year it was cold, and overcast until Sunday afternoon, so it was only the true believers, who went

smile And perhaps those who had pre paid smile

  • It was twice as big as last year
  • There were more toilets
  • Two lots of shade, one shade clothe, and one canvas
  • Bigger dump point
  • Water was taken around to those who required it
  • Wood fired Pizza 
  • Spicy food
  • Sausage sizzle ran by St Johns Ambulance
  • Ice Cream
  • Larger concrete dance area
  • 30 walk up artist, last year there were only 10
  • Ambulance on site

I estimate that there were around 1,000 people there

The Poets breakfast was booked out by Friday

$75 per person for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I assume most went home on Monday

Thursday and Friday entertainment, was from about 4 pm to 10 pm

Saturday 9 am to 11 pm

Sunday 7 am to about 4.30 pm

If you are a man with a sense of humour, I can recommend an artist by the name of Laura Downing
She is a singer, with some jokes thrown in for good measure
The compare mentioned that she is looking for a rich man, age unimportant
She would have a good time, spending his money

She received a standing ovation, with her last song, "The Man from Snowy River"
She was very good

If you are a man without a sense of humour, then she is probably not for you
She explained why both her marriages failed, she was seeing this bloke, and her husband did not like it

She explained why God is not a man, but actually a woman
God made everything in seven days
A man would start on Monday, then stay on the toilet until Tuesday

I estimate that 99% of the people there, were around retirement age, and all campers
There were no problems to my knowledge
Glasses, gold bangles, and ear rings, were found and handed in
90% of the people left their chairs near the stage, from Thursday to Sunday

The wife went with me this time, and said that we will be going again next year



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It certainly was a great event, despite the cold & wind I went up on Thursday & left Monday morning. Thought there would be some forum members around somewhere in the crowd. No hope of finding anyoneconfuse phone and internet very hit and miss as well.

Laura Downing what a great entertainer Had a great time, definitely on the calendar for next year. 



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Bumping this post up, as the Nambung Musical Festival is in again, this Thursday 25, to Sunday 28

There are no prices on their website, but I think that someone mentioned $75 per person

We shall be heading off tomorrow, Tuesday 23, and hope to be there Wednesday

If I spot anyone with a Grey Nomad sticker, I shall certainly say hello

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Had a good time at Nambung

Met up with Sue & Phil, big Len, and Cathy (Jayco Gypsy)

Sue gave me her permission, to say that she is coming along OK

Went a day early, to find out that those sneaky mature people, also went a day early

Price was $75 per person, for the Thursday to Sunday, entertainment, plus $10 per person, for the extra day, (Wednesday)

A few changes from last year were:-
All chairs to be removed each night, to give everyone a chance of getting to the front
There was more shade this year
Water (rainwater) to top up a caravan, was a $2 donation
Bigger and better dump point, no idea about the capacity, they had three 100mm pipes coming out the ground, as well as the original dump point
They no longer had the secret mens business trough, it was now called mens loos, and it was a loo with a view, as the hay bale wall which held the trough, was about four foot high
Parking was north/south, and not east/west, so my spare portable solar panel, was not required
Approximately 1,200 people went along
Approximately $17,000 was given to charity, the main charity being Make a Wish Foundation

Once again there was no problems, (to my knowledge), as over 95% were mature age people

Days were warm, but the nights were cold

When the compare asked if we were all coming back next year, my wife shouted out, "YES"

All things being equal, we shall be going again next year




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