The Inaugural

AUSTRALIAN National Busking Championships TM

GUNDAGAI

Saturday 27 October 2018

Presented by The Gundagai Regional Enhancement Group (GREG)

The Australian National Busking Championships™ is an Australia-wide network of busking festivals. The ANBC celebrates the rich diversity of Australian music and street performance culture. Throughout the year, Regional Finals are held in towns all over Australia culminating in the ANBC National Grand Final  which is held in Cooma NSW on the first weekend of November.

The buskers will perform along Sheridan Street Gundagai. Busking will start about 9am and continue to about 4pm.

The “Finals” concert will be held at Gundagai District Services Club from 5pm.

Thousands of dollars in cash prizes will be up for grabs at the ANBC Gundagai Regional Finals. Gundagai is one of the regional towns that have joined the ever-growing network of ANBC busking competitions around Australia.

There are generous prizes for 3 age categories, Open (Adult), Secondary (High School Age) and Primary (Primary School Age). Plus lots of other awards such as People’s Choice Award, Best Band, Country Music, Blues Music, Jazz Music, Classical Music, Folk, Indigenous, Community Based Music, Youth Encouragement, Most Innovative, and Ability Award (for buskers with a disability). Solos, Duos, Groups, Ensembles, Choirs are all welcome. There has even been a prize for non-musical Street Performance such as jugglers, magicians, and dancers.

The winners of each of the 3 age categories will qualify for the ANBC National Grand Final in Cooma.

• Talk to your students about participating and hand out entry forms
• Pop the date on your school calendar
• Come along and have an awesome day out!

Australian National Busking Championships™ is a Registered Trade Mark (TM# 1658214). It can only be used with permission of the IP Owner, Allan Spencer, Cooma NSW