When Pixie Jenkins announced on social media that he was returning home to Tamworth, Richard Manning from Cattleman’s Steakhouse contacted got in touch.
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He had an offer of a gig. And tonight (Friday), Jenkins will play his first concert back in Tamworth, at the steakhouse.
“It promises to be a great show,” Mr Manning said. “He hasn’t done a show like this for a while.”
The talented fiddler grew up here and for many years called the country music capital home.
But after years of touring as a musician, recording, playing his own live shows and picking up a couple of Golden Guitars along the way, he had a career-change, delving into radio as a broadcaster and producer.
It included the daunting task of tackling a four-year university course to get foot in the door of the radio industry, then embarking on a move to central Australia – which he called a ‘sand change’.
But after making the decision to leave, he loaded up his car, which a video on his Facebook page was quite an effort, and headed homeward.
Watch as Pixie Jenkins gets ready to depart Alice Springs:
“A couple of weeks ago he wrote on social media that he was on his way back,” Mr Manning told Talkin’ Country.
He contacted Jenkins, who had known for a longtime, and soon he had the fiddler booked to play a coming home concert when he arrived back in Tamworth.
“It was a spur of the moment thing really,” he said.
Jenkins will also be playing at Tamworth Country Music Festival next month, in a show called Campfire, with Ryan Sampson, where they will perform old songs in an intimate setting.
Tonight’s concert at the Cattleman’s starts at 7.30pm, and tickets cost $10.
