These and many other of Joy’s renowned bush ballads and her constant support and involvement, helped propel Slim into becoming one of Australia’s most successful recording artist and ensured that Joy herself was widely known and recognised. McKean and her sister Heather had risen to fame as the yodelling McKean Sisters. Sat in the gallery of Tamworth Town Hall looking back at the stage she once commanded, McKean remembers her youth with fondness, but not through rose-coloured glasses. Joy McKean, Australasian Country Music’s most loved and venerated leader, tonight was elevated to the Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown in Tamworth. Tickets are on sale now. Among those acknowledging their debt to her are Beccy Cole, Sara Storer, Gina Jeffreys, Amber Lawrence, Felicity Urquhart, Catherine Britt, Dianne Lindsay, Tania Kernaghan and Lynn Bowtell. Tamworth Regional Entertainment Conference Centre, Tamworth NSW. McKean is also one of the founders of the Tamworth Country Music Festival and the Country Music Association of Australia, and is also a biographer (Slim Dusty: Another Day, Another Town). It was a fitting climax to a Festival long celebration of Joy’s 90th birthday which, she reached last week. "I always think a good song has to have heart, I can't believe in making a hook - you have to say something.". It was an absolute pleasure to meet Joy in Tamworth ahead of the amazing tribute given to her by the best of the Australian Country Music community. After a chance meeting on a Sydney Harbour showboat they were sent on a three-week tour with the late Slim Dusty. Google+. 2TM announcers Pete Huxley and Sally-Anne Whitten emcee the sell-out concert to celebrate Country Music legend, Joy McKean and her 90th Birthday. Ltd. All Rights Reserved, | About | Media Kit | Jobs | Privacy | Terms | Cookies. But it was her unmatched skills as one our nation’s most prolific and talented songwriters, that has given Joy McKean a status and and respect among fans as well as the artists who make and perform the music. Concert for Joy will take place at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Conference Centre on Wednesday, 22 January 2020. WhatsApp. And at 90, Joy well and truly takes her own advice having just finished writing a new song that was specially performed for the first time by her grandson James Arneman and partner Flora Smith, the musical duo A Small Town Romance. When Joy McKean met Slim Dusty, he thought she was a stuck-up city slicker and she thought he had tickets on himself. "It was an education in life, the stories - you can't get away from that. She is chair of the Slim Dusty Foundation Ltd, the organisation established to build and operate the Slim Dusty Centre, which opened in Slim’s home town of Kempsey, NSW in October 2015. (He was born 11 Sep 1930.) The Tamworth Country Music Festival returns January 17—26, 2020. After a more than a three hour tribute to the music of Joy, son David invited his mum to the stage to say “a few words.” Joy’s response “I’ve got more than a few words, David!” The sold-out crowd hung on every word, listened, laughed and cheered. "On your 90th birthday, may you only know the joy, peace and health that comes with a life well lived." Happy 90th Birthday to Joy McKean, a true songwriting trailblazer. And on her 90th birthday, we salute Joy McKean for a trailblazing career in songwriting that has in turn, influenced and shaped the music industry in Australia. McKean was born in Singleton in the Hunter Region, NSW. “Joy has been an inspiration to our industry and in a … She has penned some of the most cherished songs in country music, and many are Slim's most popular, including ‘Lights on the Hill,’ which was written during a drive on a stormy night and won Joy the first ever Golden Guitar Award at Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1973. It was a fitting climax to a Festival long celebration of Joy’s 90th birthday which, she reached last week. She is a best-selling author for her memoir Riding This Road and the Slim biography Another Day, Another Town. Amidst the revelry in Tamworth, Chief Exec Dean Ormston attended the concert and had a cuppa with Joy to congratulate her on all her achievements and thank her for always keeping songwriting at the heart of what she does. A Concert for Joy features Paul Kelly, Cold Chisel's Don Walker, Beccy Cole, Troy Cassar-Daley and more with their own versions of McKean's compositions at TRECC, January 22 at 1:30pm. "Sending you birthday wishes Filled with happiness, Brightened by rainbows, and warmed by love." Acknowledged as an important female singer-songwriter pioneer, Joy McKean had scores of musicians lining up pay tribute to mark her 90 th birthday. This week, she's back where it all began with a special concert headlined by Paul Kelly to celebrate her 90th birthday. When Joy McKean met Slim Dusty, he thought she was a stuck-up city slicker and she thought he had tickets on himself. Her steel guitar playing parents encouraged her to take up music, and she learned to play accordion, piano and steel guitar. Have a very lovely 90th Birthday." News >
"That's what keeps you going, your love for music - music always.". Sat in the gallery of Tamworth Town Hall looking back at the stage she once commanded, McKean remembers her youth with fondness, but not through rose-coloured glasses. I left St. Louis on September 6 to drive to 2,000 miles to Walla Walla, Washington, to help my father celebrate his 90th birthday. She got to know Slim Dusty when the McKean Sisters were on a three-week tour with Slim, and they married in 1951, the same year Joy became an APRA member. Mark Holden fronts Aus Idol podcast featuring past contestants, Netflix to stream new Blackpink doco featuring Australia’s Rose, Warner Music chief looking past streaming for revenue growth, Royal Australian Mint issuing AC/DC coin set, ARIA’s Dan Rosen named president of Warner Music Australasia, Amy Shark to headline NRL Grand Final entertainment, Geoff Jones, Roger Field discuss live music’s rocky road to recovery, Gudinski’s ‘The Sound’ renewed by ABC TV for second season, Vampr eyes more global growth with two fundraising initiatives. Other notable songs written by Joy for her husband include: ‘Walk A Country Mile,’ ‘Indian Pacific,’ ‘Kelly's Offsider,’ ‘The Angel Of Goulburn Hill’ and the bittersweet ‘The Biggest Disappointment,’ which was covered by Troy Cassar-Daley in 1998, and Missy Higgins with Dan Sultan in 2014. "I don't regret any of it, I think I might have told myself to toughen up a bit quicker," she said. Son of Joy and Slim, David Kirkpatrick says, “We are so excited to be able to celebrate this incredible milestone in Tamworth. It was a sellout audience at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre today, as thousands gathered to … "I wrote Lights on the Hill thinking about that, how long it would be until someone found me if I went over. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. CELEBRATION: Joy McKean will celebrate her 90th birthday with a Concert for Joy headlined by Paul Kelly. One of the highlights of the Festival was a special Concert for Joy at which many major stars performed in a tribute to country music’s “grand” lady. Joy’s Roll of Renown Award is in recognition of the extraordinary leadership role she has performed over many decades, mentoring and supporting the country music industry and its members in so many ways.
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