Smith, the Festival’s President & Concert Co-Ordinator.

The Variety Concert will be held on Friday June 6, 2008 at 7.30 pm with the Grenfell Town Band providing a welcome to the venue from 7.00 pm.

The concert will not only feature our own fine local musicians and performers, but also well-known Celtic/Australian Folk group, the ‘Wheelers & Dealers’ playing a great mix of country, rock and traditional Irish music. The Wheelers & Dealers have received many awards, the most recent being the 2007 Folk Alliance Australia Presenter’s Award.

The group consists of Christine Wheeler (Voice/harp/flute), Ged Corben (guitar, mandolin), Mike Kerin (Fiddle, mandolin, guitar and vocals), Michael Vidale (bass) and Tinker Duffy (accordion, bodhran and vocals).

Mike Kerin was a 2007 recipient of the Victorian Country Music awards as well as winning a Gold Fiddle Award 2008 for Best Solo CD at Tamworth.

The Wheelers & Dealers have included the song “The Days When We went Swimming” (words by Henry Lawson), on their latest album, Full House.

The Wheelers & Dealers appeared at the National Folk Festival in Canberra on the Easter weekend and also performed as backing for guitarist Albert Lee’s 2007 “Live at the Basement” which will be screened on ABC-TV on April 22 at 11.00 pm.

Speaking of the National Folk Festival, a major launch of the updated reprint of Chris Kempster’s Henry Lawson Songbook took place at the Folk Festival.

Watch this space, for further details on concert ticket sales and bookings—coming soon.