It was touch and go leading up to the 2017 Terara Country Music Campout, but despite the weather trying its best to dampen organisers’ spirits, the popular annual fundraiser went ahead.
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Crowds made their way to the Terara Country Music Campout to watch their favourite artists take to the stage.
Despite 370 millimetres of rain prior to the event, which put a stop to the annual pilgrimage of caravaners to the Terara property of Owen and Thelma Ison, the campout was conducted as planned.
Although the walk-up artists and dancing acts had been cancelled for the Friday program, the stage was still alive with plenty of talented musicians.
Headline act Chad Morgan, affectionately known as The Sheik of Scrubby Creek, thrilled the audience with some old favourites and a few new songs on Saturday night and had the crowd in stitches with his entertaining life stories in between songs.
Morgan was born in Queensland in 1933 and was discovered through Australia’s Amateur Hour radio program and started recording with Regal Zonophone.
He released his first album in 1952 and is renowned for his vaudeville style of comic country and western songs, and goofy stage persona. Chad is the ultimate comic of Australian country music and is instantly recognisable with his unique trademark – his teeth.
Morgan was supported on stage by husband and wife team Glennys and Ian Muir.
Fellow musicians who took to the stage as part of the three-day program included the likes of Peter Coad, the Coad Sisters, Jim Hermel, Pete Smith, Peter ‘Smokey’ Dawson, George Farnham, Tom and Patsy Routledge, Royden Donohue and the Gun Barrel Highway Men featuring Owen Blundell, Terry Gordon, and Reg Poole.
The event also included a performance by Terara Public School students.
For more photographs from the 2017 Terara Country Music Campout turn to pages 16 and 17 or visit our website at www.southcoastregister.com.au.
