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Features / Music

Caitlyn Shadbolt / Casey Barnes / Sara Berki / Blake O'Connor

Countrytown’s Must-See Acts At Groundwater’s 10th Anniversary Festival

released a string of phenomenal standalone tracks, leading her to win the famed Toyota Star Maker competition earlier this year. WHEN IS SHE PLAYING? Like Hinterland, you’ll have three ... well-earned accolades under his belt, including the top prize at the 2019 Toyota Star Maker competition, as well as the 2020 Golden Guitar Award for New Talent

Dan Davidson, Travis Collins

Dan Davidson & Travis Collins To Headline 2024 Stock Route Music Festival

winners Ashleigh Dallas and the legendary band The Bushwackers , 2022 Toyota Star Maker Max Jackson , and Central West's Robbie Mortimer . In addition

Loren Ryan / Courtney Keil

Loren Ryan, Courtney Keil & More: The Highlights From This Week’s ‘Grass Roots’

Home Loren Ryan releases Take Me Home , her second single as the 2023 Toyota Star Maker winner. The song is an idea that's been floating around in Loren

Tamworth Country Music Festival

The Wolfe Brothers, Lane Pittman, Beccy Cole & More Added To Tamworth Country Music Festival Line-up

ARIA nominated The Wolfe Brothers lead the second announcement, followed by 2022 Toyota Star Maker winner Max Jackson , Tamworth local and Luke Combs ’ Australian tour opener Lane Pittman ... Andrew Swift, 2023 Golden Guitar winner Ashleigh Dallas, 2023 Toyota Star Maker winner Loren Ryan, Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham, multi-award winning artist Shane

Max Jackson

Max Jackson Announces ABC Music Signing

Toyota Star Maker winner Max Jackson has officially signed with ABC Music after recently teaming up with Stephen White Management . Today, she continues the journey, announcing a new single, Little ... follows a massive twelve months, including winning the 2022 Toyota Star Maker - Australia’s most prestigious country music competition. By joining Stephen White Management, Jackson becomes part

Features / Music

Loren Ryan

Loren Ryan Takes The Countrytown & KIX Country Centre Stage With An Empowered, Culturally Enriched Determination

singer-songwriter Loren Ryan – a proud Gamilaraay woman and winner of the 2023 Toyota Star Maker competition – squeezes several appearances into a short space of time, riding high

Features / Premiere

Sari Abbott

VIDEO PREMIERE: Sari Abbott - 'Two Way Street'

music video below. Two Way Street was co-written with the 2022 Toyota Star Maker winner, Max Jackson , while Abbott attended the CMAA Academy of Country Music in January

Max Jackson

Max Jackson Signs With Stephen White Management

Like It Is . It follows a massive twelve months, including winning the 2022 Toyota Star Maker - Australia’s most prestigious country music competition. By joining Stephen White Management, Jackson becomes

Features / Music

Jarred Taylor

Rider Essentials: Jarred Taylor

performing I Won’t Sleep Tonight as a Grand Finalist in the 2020 Toyota Star Maker contest, the Australian country singer shot to the top of the iTunes Country Singles

Loren Ryan

Air Date Set For Loren Ryan’s ‘Play School’ Episode

along with Kiya, Little Ted and I on a Dino Hunt!” the 2023 Toyota Star Maker wrote on social media . “I used to fake sick to stay home from school ... clapsticks. Hailing from Tamworth in New South Wales, Ryan was also a Toyota Star Maker Finalist in 2022. Having shared the stage with Jessica Mauboy and Kelly Rowland , Ryan

Loren Ryan

Loren Ryan Announces EP Launch Show In Tamworth

first music video for Suddenly , which marks her first single as the 2023 Toyota Star Maker winner. “I love the realness of this music video, it's a peek into ... singer Loren Ryan broke her own barriers earlier this year, winning the Toyota Starmaker competition in Tamworth. The Gamilaraay woman told Countrytown in an interview just prior

Features / This Album Changed My Life

Charlie Fittler

This Album Changed My Life: Charlie Fittler On Tyler Childers’ ‘Purgatory’

Shotgun on The Voice Australia . In 2022, Charlie was named a Toyota Star Maker top ten finalist. Additionally, he has opened for many artists, including Troy Cassar Daley

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