THE stage is set for one of the country music festival’s biggest stars.
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And if you think it’s hot outside, spare a thought for where this humble, festival mainstay treads the boards.
Hotplates, grills and barbies are firing-up all over town as the favoured fuel for festival fans – the humble snag – gets bought up by the thousand.
Kays Wholesale Meats manager Nigel Green said sales had been surprisingly good in the lead-up to festival, with barbecue-buffs undeterred by the heat.
“I expect it will continue if the weather cools off next week,” Mr Green said.
“There’ll be a lot of campers cooking barbecues around the campsites.
Mr Green said festival marks one of the busiest periods for Kays, with two to three tonnes of bangers predicted to be sold over the next fortnight.
The meat-man said pubs and clubs would be big winners, if the heat persists, with substantial supplies of steaks, snags and roasts being ordered.
Tamworth Magpies Rugby Club will be having a sausage sizzle outside ANZ bank everyday during festival and organisers are braced for hungry patrons, if last year’s numbers are anything to go by.
“We were selling 400 sausages and steaks a day,” Kieran McHugh said.
2016 was the first time the Magpies ventured into festival catering and they’ve gone back for a second bite.
Last year the club raised funds to help send juniors on a rugby trip to New Zealand and in 2017 they will be looking to put the money towards a deck for the clubhouse.
Kaytering Supplies general manager Nathaniel Wall anticipated sausages and steaks would be in high demand during festival.
Straight off the back of the traditionally hectic Christmas period for the local caterers, Mr Wall said the Tamworth Country Music Festival “could be the busiest time of the year”.
There’s no end in sight for the catering company, as they look forward to the back-to-school season where about 120 canteens across the region will be restocked for the new school year.