Country copper busy living and singing
Sean Hefferon
DARREN Gillis has been busy living his country music dreams. Big dreams that saw him last month playing in Tamworth – the home of the Big Golden Guitar. He was invited to play at the Tamworth Country Music Festival as a top 5 finalist in the radio 2TM Discovered Competition.
Budding country singers the world over would break more than a few guitar strings to play at the Australian festival which is the second biggest country music festival in the world after the big show in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Tamworth has been the culmination of several months of touring for Darren who has been strumming his guitar in places as far afield as Shark Bay, Kalbarri and Green Head.
Along the way he was first place winner at the 2024 Lancelin Busker Festival where
he said, “I got poached by a fella that runs the Chapman Valley Country Music Festival who said I should have a crack at the Emerging Artists and I did and ended up
winning that, which is fantastic.”