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Hart’s Mill and hay bales

By drdblogs on October 3, 2018March 6, 2019

Semaphore Music Festival, Hart's Mill stage

Semaphore Music Festival 2018 Over the Labour Day (first Monday in October) long weekend Adelaide’s quirkiest suburb Semaphore hosts its annual music festival. The seaside suburb is situated towards the northern end of Adelaide’s 30 km of beaches and is a popular destination with a vibrant local culture. With its working class roots, Semaphore has

Posted in: Americana, blues, folk, music, music festival, Music Mondays, roots, Semaphore, Semaphore Music Festival, South Australia, UNESCO City of Music

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Liquid light: Beautiful Barossa

By drdblogs on May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

Vines and olive groves. Is it Tuscany? Bordeaux? Rioja? No, Barossa Valley. Australia’s premier wine region lies just 70 km from Adelaide. For millennia the Dreamtime legend spoke of a serpent who formed the ranges that surround this modern day Garden of Eden. A mere couple of centuries ago, Lutheran refugees, fleeing Prussia’s religious intolerance

Posted in: Barossa Valley, liquid, South Australia, Weekly photo challenge, wine, wineries, WPC

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Reviving the spirit of the sixties at the birthplace of LOUD

By drdblogs on May 18, 2018November 21, 2018

Originally posted on Dr D in Oz:
The Fifth HANWELL?HOOTIE, May 6th 2017 Viaduct Meadow tent, Marshall black plaque, Hootie shuttle, the Big Hootie blues jam with Terry Marshall (sax), Robert?Hokum (guitar) and guest (!) Rock heritage in west London- Five decades on, the vision of a young man is putting West London back on…