Check out the line-up of each and you’ll have the GPS programmed and be fuelling up the car before you know it.

► WHEN Terry Gordon strides onto a stage anywhere across the length and breadth of Australia, fans who pack the various venues know they’re in the presence of country music royalty.

Now 72, Terry decided when he was knee-high to an amplifier the country road was the path he would take.

When he was 16, he started making a name for himself and went on to achieve fame and rewards many other Australian performers can only dream of.

He was inducted into the Hands of Fame in 1981, was named Entertainer of the Year in 1993, awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2005 for services to his craft and in 2012 was elevated to the Country Music Roll of Renown.

You’ll see this veteran entertainer in action when Terry joins more than 20 other performers at the third annual Clarence Valley Country Muster, near Grafton, next week.

Gates open to Wendy Gordon’s historic Ulmarra district property on October 26, and she’s expecting the caravans, RVs and campers to roll on in for the third annual event, which coincides with Grafton’s Jacaranda Festival.

Apart from Terry Gordon, the program features a swag of artists including Pixie Jenkins, Clelia Adams, Bec Hance, Glenn Jones, Lindsay Waddington, Patti Morgan, Dale Duncan, Suburban Country, Peter Coad and the Coad Sisters, Errol Gray, Ray Essery, Peter Capp, Tyson Colman, Pete Smith, Runaway Dixie and Dianne Coombes, winner of the 2014 walk-up contest.

Wendy is excited to have multi-award-winning bush balladeer Dale Duncan use the Clarence Valley Country Muster as the platform from which to launch his new album, Back To The Bush.

“Dale grew up in Grafton and left the Clarence Valley as a teenager,” Wendy said.

“He’s not long back from the world’s music capital, Nashville, where he recorded his new album with producer Larry Marrs.

“There’s a fair bit of excitement about the album because I’m told it is something special in the 

Australian country music market and a product every lover of traditional Australian and bush ballad music will want to have in their collections.”

Dale will introduce and perform songs from the album, as well as meeting and speaking to fans, at the 2015 Clarence Valley Country Muster.

“It will be really great to come back home and perform,” he said. 

“The muster is the event on everyone’s lips at the moment and I’m proud that Wendy has invited me to launch my new album at such a popular event in my former back yard.”

The official opening on Friday, October 30, will see a lone piper lead a parade to commemorate the landing of Anzacs at Gallipoli a century ago.

The parade, along the boulevard leading to the entertainment, food and display areas, will include Australian Light Horse re-enactment riders, RSL sub-branch members, historic carts and Clydesdales.

They’ll proudly march through an avenue of trees, poppies and roses so visitors can come together as one to salute the sacrifices that gave us our freedom.

To book your spot for the muster everyone’s talking about, contact Wendy Gordon on 6644 8012,

0432 741 947, emailwgordon@ cvcmuster.com.au or view the website

► FANCY a drive through the mountains? Waterfalls all the way? If you love bluegrass and folk music, this is just the ticket for you.

The 14th annual Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival has all the ingredients you love in a festival, without it being too over-the-top.

There are concerts, workshops, dances, jam sessions, impromptu performances, poetry and children’s entertainment – and that’s not the half of it.

Throw in a couple of national treasures along with some of the country’s finest acts, a few classy international artists and you’re getting close to seeing the full picture.

It’s an intimate, friendly, three-day weekend of acoustic music in one of the prettiest settings around. Who doesn’t love driving towards Dorrigo, where the grass gets greener by the kilometre?

Building on the success of last year’s event, organisers have secured the talents of The Andrew Collins Trio (Canada), and the return of Chris Henry and Hardcore Grass (USA/NZ/AU).

Check out the list of performers and you’re sure to find some of your favourite acts. How about the fabulous Shane Howard Trio, Stephen Pigram (one of the famous Pigram Brothers from Broome), Gleny Rae Virus and her Playboys, the Davidson Brothers, Tonchi McIntosh, One Up Two Down, River Mountain Riot, Rod and Judy Jones, The Mid North and The Stetson Family. 

As well as the main pavilion stage, the recently-renovated luncheon pavilion stage and the Tallowood venue, there will also be a mini-big top circus tent venue, allowing for more intimate acoustic sessions and blackboard spot appearances.

The festival gets under way tomorrow night with a foot-stomping Community Hoe-Down dance in the main pavilion featuring My-T-Fine Stringband and special guests. 

In keeping with it being a family-friendly event, tickets for the Community Hoe-Down are just $25 for a family. 

Visit the www.dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au website,  for a full program and ticketing options.

Besides the great music, you’ll have a beaut drive in the country.