2025 Tasmania Music Tour

2025 MUSIC TOUR to victoria & canberra

Join Wayne Horsburgh for this musical and sight-seeing adventure. This is a fabulous tour, visiting many of Australia’s most iconic sites and most important museums, art galleries, etc., to see many of the nation’s most revered historic & cultural ‘treasures’. A highlight of the tour will be the Mountaingrass Festival, in the town of Bright, in north-eastern Victoria’s High Country. The Mountaingrass Festival is Australasia’s premier bluegrass and old time music festival, featuring outstanding Australian and overseas acts. In addition to the Mountaingrass Festival the tour includes many other musical (& bush poetry) highlights in Benalla, Wangaratta, Corryong, Tumblong, Gundagai & Canberra.

Tour price: PP twin share - $3,895
Single supplement $650

Tour dates: 13 - 21 November 2025

Itinerary

Visit these fabulous and beautiful locations:

  • Melbourne
  • Wangaratta
  • Bright
  • Corryong
  • Canberra

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

  • Lots of musical highlights including our tour host Wayne Horsburgh
  • Transport by luxury coach
  • Good quality accommodation throughout. See brochure for complete details

You'll have the best of "The sights of the Australia by day. The music of the Australia by night."

The Mountaingrass Festival is Australasia’s premier bluegrass and old-time string band music festival. Mountaingrass features concerts of bluegrass, old-time string band, traditional country and gospel music, along with instrumental workshops and numerous picking sessions. It is an inclusive event, so attendees are encouraged to participate in the workshops, picking sessions, and slow jam sessions. Attendees are also encouraged to perform on the ‘blackboard’ stages. So if you are a player, bring along your instrument and join in!

Wayne Horsburgh

Wayne is one of Australia’s most successful country music entertainers. Influenced by Slim Whitman and Frank Ifield, his style of yodelling is a real crowd pleaser. Originally from Benalla, Victoria, Wayne moved to Sydney in 1979 to expand his music career and also tour the world. For 25 years Wayne spent part of each year in the USA, sharing stages at Festivals and Fairs with some of country music’s biggest stars, including Merle Haggard, The Statler Brothers and Mickey Gilley.

Join these wonderful musicians for some great gigs as we tour...

Owen Blundell is one of Australia’s most talented country music artists. He is an outstanding singer, comedian, yodeller, and songwriter. He is an excellent impersonator, including an excellent impersonation of Frank Spencer (from the TV series Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em). Owen has released many successful albums, has won many songwriting awards, and has been nominated for Male Vocal of the Year, in Tamworth
Kate Cole & Clive Brooker are an acoustic country/folk duo, from Wangaratta. Kate is a multiinstrumentalist (guitar/button accordion/mandolin). Clive plays guitar and ukulele. Kate has a lovely Emmylou Harris type voice. Together Kate and Clive have a great vocal harmony sound. They sing songs ranging from country/ folk to The Beatles songs
Zackerbilks Jazz Band Zackerbilks is one of Canberra’s most outstanding jazz bands. An 8 piece band, Zackerbilks play very entertaining traditional Dixieland style jazz… a mixture of instrumental and vocal numbers. The band includes trumpeter, Zach Raffan, Miriam Miles-Read (banjo-uke & vocals), as well as two clarinets, trombone, piano, double bass, & drums

Click here to download the 2025 Music Tour of Victoria and Canberra brochure... (PDF 1.5MB)

For detailed print brochure/further information call Travelrite International Pty Ltd. Toll Free 1800 630 343 or John Howie (03) 9816 3648 Mobile 0409 409 528 Email: johnhowiemusictours@hotmail.com