If you catch an Uber during this year’s festival, you might get a nice surprise.
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Singer-songwriter Paul Bonner Jones has combined two of his passions this year at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
With Uber recently coming to Tamworth, it means Bonner Jones is able to transport people around the festival while also giving them a taste of his musical talent.
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Bonner Jones’ first pick up was four girls, country music fans and regular Uber users, from Sydney.
“They were happy to find out that Uber had made its way to the country music capital in time for the festival,” the Gold Coast/Woolomin man said.
Bonner Jones had picked the happy foursome up from the Longyard on Sunday afternoon after they’d had a big fill of country music over the weekend.
“The girls were quite amazed that they were being driven from the Longyard to North Tamworth by a country music singer,” he said.
Bonner Jones had his CD playing in the car and they had asked who it was.
Paul started singing along to his song ‘Geoge Oak Lane’ and the girls screamed.
One said: “Our driver is a real legitimate country singer”.
Bonner Jones said the timing was perfect.
“The amazing thing in the car was just as the first chorus, the car of happy campers were just coming into the roundabout at Scott Rd and Peel St, less than 100 meters from the entrance of King George V Ave, the road the tune was penned about,” he said.
The song covers decades of the famous Tamworth iconic roadside in the storyline.
Bonner Jones had been a Starmaker grand finalist in 1995 and is still a regular to the festival hosting the annual Disability Concert on behalf of sponsors (ClubsNSW, Kootingal Bowling Club, Tamworth Songwriters Association & Northcott Tamworth).
“It was another fantastic roll up and such a happy vibrant experience for the clients and their carers,” he said of the packed house at the Kootingal Bowling Club.
The concert, now in its ninth year, has been supported by artists such as Beccy Cole, Adam Harvey, Paul Costa, Virginia Coad and Jim Hermel, Shelley and Lawrie Minson, Steve Charles, Wendy Wood, Jo Lavelle Carolyne Morris, Renee Jonas, Duncan Hill family band who have given their time for a worthy cause.
TSA songwriters, Bonner Jones and Patricia Cruzado have trouble keeping now six-year-old Matilda Bonner off the stage.
She’s a country singer in the making who danced around with the hundreds of participants from Tamworth and surrounds.
