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THOSE country music festival attendees not rubbing shoulders with country music stars at the Golden Guitar awards spent their Saturday night cheering on the busking talent at the Toyota Landcruiser Busking Championships Best of the Buskers concert, held in Tamworth's Bicentennial Park.
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About 6000 people attended the concert, with the winners chosen from the 600 buskers who had registered for a spot on the Boulevard of Dreams at this year's 42nd Tamworth Country Music Festival.
It was a successful night for first time Tamworth Country Music Festival buskers, with bluegrass /mountain folk group The Mid North, from Bellingen, taking out the country category after playing more than 30 gigs at venues around town, as well as busking on Peel Street and winning the Battle of the Bands competition held the day before.
Teenage duo Tia Gostelow and Jack Gray were awarded second place, while Adelaide buskers and first-timers at Tamworth, The Germain Sisters, won the non-country category.
Second place for non-country was awarded to Central Coast duo Grissily Train, and Gold Coast band The Twine won the people's choice award.