Posted on 01/10/2006 8:24:14 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
RUSSELL Crowe will dust off his cowboy boots and take to the stage at the 34th Country Music Awards in Tamworth later this month.
Alongside Australian music stars Paul Kelly, John Williamson and Troy Cassar-Daley, Crowe will present a main gong at country music's night of nights.
The Academy Award winning actor and musician will take a break from touring with his band to present the award and entertain the crowd with a song from his new album My Hand, My Heart.
Crowe has asked country singer and Golden Guitar nominee Felicity Urquhart to join him on stage to sing backing vocals with his band, The Ordinary Fear of God.
"I'm rapt," 28-year-old Urquhart said when she heard the news.
Urquhart is no stranger to playing with Crowe, having jammed with him at his property and performed at one of his Christmas parties.
"He's a top fella," she said.
"I'm not sure who will get a bigger kick out of it, the audience or me."
One-time Australian Idol contestant Shannon Noll will take time out from rehearsals for his Shine tour to also present an award.
Iconic musician Smoky Dawson and previous award winner Melinda Schneider will also present.
Meanwhile, the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) has just finalised a deal with the Southern Cross Ten Television Network and its affiliates to broadcast the awards for the next three years.
While the 34th CMAA Country Music Awards are being held on Saturday 28 January, the broadcast on the Southern Cross Ten signal will be on Saturday February 4.
Good actor...can't sing to save himself.
ping
What?! My fighting is peotry! You don't cut Russle Crowe's peorty ya testicle!
Fahtin'...fahtin'...fahtin' round the world...
What are the bands? Men at Work for Little Pay While My Woman Cheats on Me?
Aussie Dasher, Did you put me on the Russell Crowe ping list...or is this the Aussie ping list?
I admit to buying one of Russell Crowe's music DVD's, and I also have a TOFOG T-shirt that says "Get Back Thirty Odd Foot" with the name (at that time) of his band, Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts. The shirt was purchased at his big concert in Texas a few years back, by a Russell fan I know who has traveled to various cities to attend his concerts.
Mind me platypus duck, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Don't let him go running amok, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Altogether now!
Some smitten woman no doubt
I didn't know there was a Aussie ping list, and I'd be bloody staggered if Rusty's got one!
Give me Rolf anyday!
Tie me kangaroo down mate. But who sang "The Pub With No Beer"?
Yeah right. But Australian Country has a parallel history pretty much as far back as American Country.
Waltzing Matilda (1895) has a claim to be proto-Country. (Could even make a case for The Wild Colonial Boy (before 1880)
Thanks for the ping- I've seen him in concert 4 times and he has a very magnetic stage presence.
With all the cable channels around, maybe we could get to see this extavaganza. Would be fun!
You will never know the 10th circle of hell until you have that song sung by the other wonders from Downunder "The Wiggles" burned into your head. Don't even get me started on the Wiggles. I have a 16 month old son, and I already HATE the Wiggles LOL...
Looks like ol' Crowe knocked over a ChinaMan or a ChinaDoll. Fighting all across the world!
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