Country Music Channel Australia
Australian country music has a great richness to offer us. With a powerful music association (CMAA, Country Music Association of Australia), an interesting artistic school, and hundreds of yearly discographic editions, very important country music festivals such as Tamworth, a lot of sponsors and a music market going on, the country music channel in Australia is ideal.
Local Australian folklores has its origins in the second half of the 20th century and in the late music inheritance form the oceanic continent, brought by the European immigrants and the influence of poets such as Henry Lawson or Andrew Barton “Banjo” Petterson. This last one a journalist, writer, adventurer, poet, is the author of the non-official Australian anthem “Waltzing Matilda”, being a key actor understanding Australian country music history.
The Australia Sound Heritage Association has published an interesting double CD titled Country Music in Australia that contains the most distinguished of Australian country music of 40 years since the end of the 80´s, featuring key artists as Tex Morton, Buddy Williams and Slim Dusty.
One of the most famous ecponents of australian country musci is Keith Urban who has won recognition all over the world.