This year’s Big Red Bash at Birdsville is only a few days away and organisers have released a schedule of who is playing on what day.
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The three day feast of music and family friendly entertainment in the Simpson Desert includes desert drag races and indigenous craft workshops and has become a top Australian bucket-list event.
The Bash starts Tuesday July 4 and goes for three days to Thursday July 6.
Now in its fifth year, the festival will feature some of Australia’s best-loved country and rock musicians.
The 2017 line up features Missy Higgins, Lee Kernaghan, James Reyne and Mark Seymour.
Tuesday July 4
Missy Higgins headlines the bill on Day 1.
Higgins said she was so excited to play this gig.
“To get out into the Australian desert, get some red soil on my feet and share a stage with so many incredible country artists. It's going be fun,” she said.
Wednesday July 5
James Reyne and ex Hunters and Collectors Mark Seymour top the bill on a big day.
The pair have joined forces in a celebration of their famous songs as well as a suite of new numbers.
The pair will combine the forces of their separate bands working under the moniker of The Eleanors.
Full Wednesday line-up:
Ray Ryder
Russell Morris
Kate Ceberano
Ian Moss
James Reyne
Mark Seymour
Thursday July 6
Top of the bill is Lee Kernaghan though he will be challenged by fellow country and western legends Troy Cassar Daley with The McClymonts also on a stellar bill.
The Wolfe Brothers
Christie Lamb
James Blundell
Tania Kernaghan
The McClymonts
Troy Cassar Daley
Lee Kernaghan
Lee Kernaghan said celebrating my 25th anniversary at the Bash with a bunch of mates from throughout his career was going to be an event to remember.
“We are putting together a huge show that will be an epic celebration of 25 years of The Outback Club,” he said.
Comedy duo the Crack Up Sisters will MC the event.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
