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    Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival 2015

    Having missed last year, I again attended the festival staged with a new promoter/main sponsor this year which I understand it to be the Amazing Mill Markets in concert with Ballarat Regional Tourism & the City of Ballarat. Most of the bands played at the George Hotel and a couple of other venues on Lydiard Street. In its inaugural year, the festival was quite huge with great excitement surrounding the event. I remembered it was staged in a number of huge surrounding venues & stages catering separately for rock & roll, rockabilly & swing music genres. I thought it was a relatively very successful event so I am unsure as to the reason(s) for the changes made.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this year's festival too although it was staged on a much smaller scale. I believe numbers wise, it was down too. But there was less differentiation between the various music genres this year so in many ways, it was a more seamless, "one size fits all" event with rock & roll, rockabilly and swing dancers basically all fronting up at the same venue(s) to dance. So it's good that there was more mixing of the crowd although I do think there was less hard core "rockabilly" people at this year's festival. Nevertheless, all the usual attractions were available on show throughout the weekend ranging from hotrods & kustoms display, merchandise stores, fashion parade and Miss Pin Up competition, dance classes and even burlesque.

    No international bands this year but we had lots of excellent local bands from Melbourne, Queenland, South Australia and NSW including the Lincolns, TJ & the Twinspinners, No Brakes, Atomic Hi Tones, the Detonators, Skyrockats, Ezra Lee & the Havoc Bnad, West Texas Crude and the Sateliites, Jump & Jive, Dirty Boogie Band etc. I didn't get to see all the bands but enjoyed very much listening and dancing to the bands I did get to watch.

    Well done to the festival's promoter(s). They did well given the circumstances. The weather was generally pretty good although they was a bit of rain on Saturday. Let's keep on supporting our 1950's scene and festivals. Love it or lose it - like the saying goes .....















    Last edited by Jitterbug; 18-02-2015 at 11:27 AM.

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