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Narara Music Festival 1984
Our article from sometime back on the Narara Music Festival of 1983 has proved to be one of our most popular with many folks leaving their recollections and memories in the comments. Many also commented that they’d like to see an article about the 1984 Narara concert. The problem has been a lack of reference…
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The first Narara Music Festival was held over the Australia Day long weekend in 1983 on the Central Coast of NSW. It wasn’t actually held at Narara but at nearby Somersby. The concert featured an all-Australian all-star lineup as follows Friday Zoo Choirboys Jon English Divinyls Moving Pictures Australian Crawl Saturday
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