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NU COUNTRY TV RETURNS JUNE 11 2011

THE ENGINE ROOM

Nu Country TV returns to air on C 31 in Victoria - Wednesday December 7 - at 10 pm for Series #17.

Acclaimed media teacher Ashley Hall - who edited most of Series #16 - returns to the editing chair.

Ashley and Tom Swinburn took over the reins for the winter series from fellow academic Peter Staubli.

The NSW Sapphire Coast secondary teacher, now running a successful film business, edited three series after picking up the baton from Kerry Richardson.

Staubli remains active on Nu County, shooting hosting roles of daughter Anneliese and fellow teacher Mid-Pacific Bob Olson.

Ashley and Peter share a rich background in secondary media teaching - Ash's 14 years at the helm resulted in a 2007 Australian Media Teacher of The Year Award.

Hall is also working as editor and cameraman on Azaria Media's 10 part series Fringe Lane and New Age Wrestling - both on C 31.

The multi-talented teacher edited Transonic Films 2011 Tropfest entry Pathos and Shepherd's Hill, screened at St Kilda Film Festival.

Hall's other credits include his own film 3 Minutes and Ann-ihilation.

He also appeared as an extra in Ten TV series Rush, telemovie Hawke and Geoffrey Rush film Eye Of The Storm.

FESTIVALS AND SPONSORS

Nu Country covers the lavish national festival and touring circuit during summer and autumn.

We thank all members, renewing members, sponsors, record companies, tour promoters, festival organisers, bands and artists for their support.

Nu Country TV is indebted to CMC Rocks The Hunter, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson and Joe Nichols promoters Michael Chugg Entertainment and Rob Potts Entertainment Edge for their generous sponsorship.

This time around they are sponsoring Nu Country TV with Melbourne concerts by superstars Tim McGraw and singing spouse Faith Hill, the Texan Eli Young Band, Dierks Bentley and Lee Kernaghan.

Bentley, who toured here with Brooks & Dunn, returns here for the CMC Rocks The Hunter Festival and an intimate concert with Aussie country king Lee Kernaghan at the St Kilda Palais on Tuesday March 13.

McGraw, Hill and Eli Young Band perform at the Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday March 20 after headlining CMC Rocks The Hunter.

Bluegrass maestro-prolific songwriter Jim Lauderdale, who had a cameo in the Country Strong movie, with McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow, also returns for his third Australian tour at the Hunter Festival at Hope Estate.

Also on the bill are U.S. artists Craig Campbell and Colt Ford, expatriate Quorn born guitarist Jedd Hughes and hit writer Sarah Buxton aka Buxton Hughes and Kernaghan.

Other Australian artists include multiple Golden Guitarists Beccy Cole and Sunny Cowgirls, expatriate Texan Doug Bruce, Bendigo neighbours The Davidson Brothers, Luke Austen, Harmony James, Peter McWhirter and many more.

RED HILL FESTIVAL SUPPORT NU COUNTRY

The acclaimed Red Hill Country Music Festival, begun in the eighties, also supports Series #17 of Nu Country TV.

Among previous headliners were Minnesota born honky tonker Joe Sun, and artists diverse as Beccy Cole, Anne Kirkpatrick, Lee Kernaghan and Conway, The Wolverines and Troy Cassar-Daley.

This time Northern Territory born Markus Meier and Londonderry singer Jayne Denham head the interstate cast on Sunday January 8.

Also on the bill are eighties favourites Gunslinger, Peter Baylor & The Roadhouse Romeos, Rough Cut, Amber Joy Poulton, Rick Bartlett and Chris Lee.

There's also the lavish Hot Rod Show and Ute Muster with former Nu Country FM and K Rock disc jockey Gary Turner the MC.

We also support other summer and autumn festivals including Port Fairy, Whittlesea, Bunyip and Wandong who supply video clips and access.

Stay tuned to Nu Country TV for music by most of the artists featured.

CLICK HERE for Tonkgirl's Gig Guide for full details of all festivals and concerts.

SERIES #17 MUSIC

We have some exciting new video clips and live footage for Series #17.

Videos include expat superstar Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zac Brown Band, Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley, Pistol Annies, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Alabama, Jamey Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Kenny Chesney, Ronnie Dunn, Eric Church, Luke Bryan, Sunny Sweeney, George Strait and expats O'Shea and Air Supply singer Russell Hitchcock.

Catherine Britt, Steve Forde, Jayne Denham and Victorian raised Jetty Road, Davidson Brothers, Tracy Killeen, Adam Harvey, Adam Brand, Jordie Lane, Damian Howard, Prairie Oysters, Harmony James, Little John, Troy Barrett and Bona Fide Travellers also feature.

We have clips by international acts Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, Dirt Drifters, Reba McEntire, Jake Owen, Danny Gokey, Crystal Shawanda, Bradley Gaskin, Darius Rucker, Steel Magnolia, Doc Walker, Scott McCreery, Rhonda Vincent and Eilen Jewel.

Lee Kernaghan, Beccy Cole, Shane Nicholson, Kirsty Lee Akers, 8 Ball Aitken, Peter McWhirter, Candice & Nadine, Melinda Schneider, Luke Austen, Jackie Dee and Katrina Burgoyne head homegrown artists whose clips have arrived.

WIN AIR SUPPLY RUSSELL HITCHCOCK CD & DVD

We are proud to offer the new Tennessee CD and DVD by former Air Supply singer Russell Hitchcock.

Russell, 62 and born in Melbourne, recorded the 20 track double CD in Nashville with acclaimed producer Rob Rappaport.

Hitchcock and Graham Russell fronted international chart topping band Air Supply from 1976.

Here is your chance to soak up the countrified vocals of Hitchcock and A team session singer Wes Hightower.

The double CD features famed Music Row session players diverse as pedal steel guitarists Robby Turner, Dan Dugmore and Sonny Garrish and violinists Rob Hajacos and Larry Franklin.

All you have to do to win this collectors' item CD and DVD featuring five video clips and an exclusive interview is either become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership.

It costs just $20.

But email us first at music@nucountry.com.au as stocks are limited.

ERIC CHURCH-LUKE BRYAN BONANZA

We preview Series #17 of Nu Country TV in December with exciting tidings about artists we will feature.

EMI Records Promotions ace Bianca O'Neill has donated copies of new albums by young guns Eric Church and Luke Bryan.

Eric, 34, and Luke, 35, topped the all genre Billboard Top 200 on debut with their third albums Chief and Tailgates And Tanlines.

Church, a controversial North Carolina nouveau outlaw, and Georgian hunk Bryan also have new video clips.

ALAN JACKSON - MIRANDA LAMBERT PRIZES

We have great news for fans of Georgian born superstar Alan Jackson and CMA Award winning Texan star Miranda Lambert.

We have their latest CDS as prizes for viewers who renew Nu Country TV memberships or become members.

Sony-BMG promotions chief Emma Smith has also given us Miranda's new DVD - Revolution: Live By Candlelight.

Alan's 34 Number Ones features his biggest hits including his duet with Zac Brown Band - As She's Walking Away.

The bonus tracks also include his version of the late June Carter Cash-Merle Kilgore written Johnny Cash hit Ring Of Fire and the rare track Look At Me.

Emma also donated Miranda's quadruple CMA Award winning CD Revolution.

As a bonus there is Miranda's brand new DVD featuring rare acoustic performances of six songs White Liar, The House That Built Me, Love Song, Heart Like Mine, Love Is Looking At You and Rolling Stones country classic Dead Flowers.

AUTOGRAPHED KEITH URBAN CDS

Expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban returned home for a triumphant tour with his chart-topping mates Lady Antebellum in April.

And Keith's long time record company EMI-Capitol has great news for Nu Country TV viewers.

Promotions ace Bianca O'Neill has donated copies of his huge selling ninth album Get Closer to you.

All you have to do is either become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership.

It costs just $20.

Please send a cheque or money order made out to Nu Country Music to us at P O Box 625 - Northcote - 3070.

We also now have electronic banking for membership payment and renewal.
But email us first at music@nucountry.com.au as stocks are limited.

TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS CD OFFER

	Universal Music has donated copies of teen sensation Taylor Swift's huge selling second album Fearless to Nu Country TV. Viewers who become members or renew their membership for just $20 can win the Fearless CD. Swift, 19, played capacity audiences on her debut Australian tour in March and returns in February, 2010. Please email us at music@nucountry.com.au with your pledge.
Important note - please email us first. Don't send membership cheque until you have been confirmed as the winner.

WIN SLIM DUSTY CLASSIC BOXED SET

We have more good news for viewers - EMI Records has given us an invaluable collectors' item - a 4 Box set by late Australian country legend Slim Dusty.

Sittin' On 80 features a lost, classic track discovered by Slim's widow Joy McKean.

Joy found the song Give Me Room from a 1997 recording at their home studio Columbia Lane.

Give Me Room was written by one of Slim's favourite writers John Dohling.

John, an outback station hand and good mate of Slim's passed away in November of last year.

Sadly he never heard the final version of Slim's recording of his classic trucking song.

It has now been released as a single and included on Sittin' On 80.

Slim's legendary Travelling Country Band played on the song that has been digitally re-mastered by Australia's mastering guru Don Bartley.

All you have to do to win Slim's 4 Box set is become a member of Nu Country TV or renew your membership.

It only costs $20 and includes postage.

Please email us first at music@nucountry.com.au

We will then send you the CD on receipt of your cheque or money order made out to Nu Country Music.

OUR HISTORY

Singing actor Peter Hosking created Nu Country TV in 2002 after a long stint as a DJ on our radio station during its seven-year era at Beer Can Hill, Northcote, and Harley House at the Paris, Texas, end of Collins St in the CBD.

The aspirant radio station began at Bundoora in 1994 with the late former Preston mayor Bill Corrie as its embryonic president.

Hosking recruited fellow Nu Country FM DJS as hosts, filmed concerts and produced-edited the first four series.

The voiceover maestro, now living in exile in Prague, handed the reigns to Sofie Blichfeldt for Series #5.

Sofie then produced her own show Alone With Everybody for C 31 before graduating to Rockwiz on SBS-TV.

ABC-TV 2 has picked up Alone With Everybody and commissioned a new series - she might find time during sleep to film celebrity hosting roles for Nu Country TV.

Her workload, including long running Ten Network soapie Neighbours, prompted her to be succeeded by Kerry Richardson who edited Series #6, #7 and #8.

Richardson filmed concerts while Kris Walker edited Series #9.

Kris's successor Sean Tierney carried a hefty workload as he took over the filming and editing of Series #10.

Sean filmed several Nu Country TV concerts including the international showcase by Nashville singing satirist Kacey Jones and Oklahoma stone country star Becky Hobbs.

The famed show at the Noise Bar in Brunswick on February 1, 2008, was a nominee in the Antennas - the national community TV awards.

Kerry Richardson returned to editing Series #11 and #12 of Nu Country before handing the role to Peter Staubli for Series #13.