23/02/2023
Some updates of our successful events so far please have a nice read:
Since the pandemic very much the same as many other businesses we at All Ways Entertainment have had to change our business model in some ways, ways that have started to become successful in not only being a booking agency but also being a touring management company in which we organize all the acts itineraries e.g., flights, meals, accommodation, tour schedules and touring liaisons with festival organizers etc. We have a whole team that organize the schedule for you e.g., flights, travel, hire cars, accommodation, meals, promotion, and liaisons which we hope will in the future take a lot of pressure of acts and managers of acts that tour well-known or up-coming acts to travel Australia or abroad.
We liaise with the festival organizers and the management from acts as a go between to help make festival traveling and the behind the scenes promotion and organizing before and after the events a lot more successful covering all of the things that should be covered in a contract between the artist and us and the festival organizers so that nothing is left out and all entities have had a great experience from the traveling to the festival, performing and then traveling back home.
You and your managements or festival organizers still have the control of any promotional materials created for your multimedia or your great festival experience which we can also assist with OfCourse just that some acts like to do it themselves which is no problem with us whatsoever.
We do have a film crew available to film your festival experience but that comes with an extra cost to both entities the artists and the festival managements which can be negotiated between us and our filming crew team. It can also be livestreamed by the best livestreaming equipment and team available.
The good reflections of good filming with High Resolution cameras are you will look at your best in TV quality when being livestreamed and recorded.
If you are a band or an up-coming artist and wish to tour Australia and abroad, we have the team to take you there and give you a successful experience.
Maitland Country Music Festival River Royal Inn Hotel in Morpeth October -2 2022.
We at All Ways Entertainment having just registered our own Country and Folk and Jazz Festival called the Maitland Country Music Festival began with this new festival with the help of The River Ryal Inn in Morpeth providing us with their great outside venue which can comfortably seat up to 120 people. We started the festival that day with a Maitland Duo from the Folk Circuit called “Nerds in Music” who kept the people interested listening to their great folk classics and the love of music amongst friends. Then the Bushwackers came on as our major act that wowed the crowds into the best moods for their well-known classics written and performed by the band for over 50 years. The response we had with ticket sales and by the crowds on this day was enormous with a standing ovation and request to come back on for an encore twice. The venue managers were non other than astonished with the bands performance and the organization of the day that they invited them back for another festival on Australia Day. The day went without a problem whatsoever and The Bushwackers were very well received by an starving crowd for good entertainment in the local area spanning from Singleton even Scone, Muswellbrook, Dungog, The Central Coast and even Taree the event was a full house great time had by all making great memories of an entertainment precinct come back after the pandemic blues.
Maitland Country Music Festival River Royal Inn Hotel in Morpeth January-26 “Australia Day” 2023.
The comeback of the Bushwackers and adding MT-Pockets and The Jungle Kings some great local talent “3 Bands in One Day“ was a great success. The ticket sales went through the roof where we had to tell people to bring their own camp chairs to sit on which they did, and it made the event even more like a festival vibe. Even though we battled the rainy unsure weather not a soul left the building it was amazing the support and the understanding of the people that bought tickets and enjoyed the atmosphere and the show that all the acts put on. Mt-Pockets duo started of in the early afternoon being Emil Matla and Anthony Gibbons also known as Tony Johns they played some of Tony Johns’ s original songs but also their pub and club classic covers played for many years and what they have been known for as that classic pub and club duo. The Jungle Kings were the next to play on the afternoon’s bill with adding Tony Johns to play Harmonica on some of their much-loved classics. The jungle Kings have been a festival band for many of years playing at some of Newcastle’s best-known festivals and venues and becoming a household name in Newcastle and Sydney Venues and Festivals at wineries and jazz venues. Their music throughout the day became infectious and started getting some people off their seats and dancing in the gaps of the venues and the dance floor area in front of the stage. The day was also a bit hot but the rain before the Bushwackers came on had brought a bit of a cooling off for everyone which made the Bushwackers performance a very successful experience by all Dobe Newton and Roger Corbett and the band were very well received by the crowds and had traveled all the way from Tamworth just finishing off their well know yearly performances at The Longyard Tamworth during the Tamworth Country Music Festival to large crowds. Their performance after their travels back to Newcastle to perform at our festival was none other than energetic considering their tight performing schedules in Tamworth this had no bearing on their performance given at our festival.
Again the day was a great success and well received by the venue and the crowds who came the Maitland Country Music Festival was reborn on this day with great tenacity and performance by all three of our acts thankyou to all the performers and the organizers and the sound and lighting crew and the venue staff and management for helping making this a great successful event, but mostly the best well received audiences who have supported our new festival the Maitland Country Music Festival.
Touring With The Bushwackers Feb -17 – 19 2023 Buyup Brook Country Music Festival 2023.
We have in 2023 just toured with the famous Bushwackers inductees to the Hall of Renown in Tamworth and taken them to Western Australia to Boyup Brook Country Music Festival and have had the best experience with meeting the organizers and the Boyup Brook Country Music team. The band was superb non other than ultra-professional the Bushwackers are one of Australia’s treasures as a band with many years of heritage and adding the younger generation into their team and performances they are onto something great for the future and any new or established festivals coming up.
They performed with a full 5-piece band with 2 other local session musicians on Saturday night the 18th of February 2023 and wowed the dancers on the dancefloor into an all-out frenzy with baby boomers and children as young as 4 or 5 years old hitting the dancefloor dancing to traditional songs written and sung by the Bushwackers in a over 50 years career. The sight was amazing to see as soon as people heard the music with that mesmerizing beat, they ran to the dancefloor to become involved in a live experience as not very much to be seen these days.
Although we all battled the heat and the sun it had no bearer on their infectious performance to get people up of their seats.
On Sunday afternoon the 19th of February again battling the hot sun and having to decide to perform as a 4-piece band they were again dynamic in their music ability and performance but also with the crowds who were mostly baby boomers in their 60- and 70-year age group.
They were received with much interest and appreciation by the sitting crowds of at least 800 to a 1000 people who were all sitting in the shade battling the heat and the humidity which had no bearer on them at all it was amazing to see how people were happy to huddle in the shade. Some dancers from a Line-Dancing group were the stars of the show also as they kept the afternoon mostly interesting with some great dancing moves the afternoon ended on a mostly positive note with again some infectious songs to get everyone involved in dancing and singing along to the Bushwackers classics.
The professionalism and tenacity of this band The Bushwackers is some of the best in Australia our Australian treasure in music and a must have for any folk or country music festival that needs that extra finesse having Australian homegrown talent.
We at All Ways Entertainment and The Maitland Country Music Festival are planning some new upcoming events so please stay tuned for a new event in May.
