The Free Radicals

04/09/2026

As some of you may know, that as well as being entertainers we also love our Warwick Sailing Club and this weekend is the first weekend of the new sailing season on Leslie dam.

Our sailboat Goosfraba has had a winter touch up and is ready to go for summer frivolity on the water.

Anyone in the area is invited for a sail and sausage sizzle tomorrow from midday so come say hello.

Next week we are at Bony Mountain Folk Festival so it's been good to have events local for us.

02/09/2026

Yeah... suffering for my art... Zac Anthony, one of the talented artists at Back to Basics Music Muster invited me to do a rendition of "Old Man Emu" with him on stage, with the jaw harp. We had a bit of a distraction on stage, which caused me to lose concentration, and I came off stage bleeding as I caught my lip in the reed.

Lol, just one of those incidents you hope no one sees, but it's all part of live music.

31/08/2026

As much as is understood about the "need' to post on social media your comings and goings, it's a lot of jumping through hoops to remind people we are actually human, and we do s**t in the REAL world that junkies of the cyber world think is actually representative of human connection.

We had a great experience at the festival/gathering in , so good to see so many people arrive at a country town to support local filmmakers and participate in a local initiative that is wholly and totally Australian in its content and possibilities.

We were delighted to be part of the event, playing our brand of Australiana music that encourages people to remember what is at the essence of the culture we live in.

With today's age of anmnisea of the work and resilience that the colonial forebears undertook to deliver the possibility of a life that was free of the English yoke of power and control, we can only hope that people who hear our music reflect on what makes this country great.

We have connected with Aaron Smith, the piro piper, who is part of the https://www.facebook.com/mouldyhaggis

We met this motley crew at Boondooma Homestead and Festivals Scott's in the bush this year and hope to get a collaboration of radicals to have fun at a
collaboration of music near you.

We hope to share a couple of professional video clips of us at the festival once we receive the footage.

Our next event is at the awesome https://www.facebook.com/groups/bonymountainfolkfestival
just outside Warwick, so we hope to see you there.

Thanks heaps to the new followers of our channel on Facebook; it makes a difference in our ability to apply for spots at festivals and venues.

29/08/2026

Absolutely awesome day for the Yowie event in Woodenbong.

Live music on now then us at 6pm

26/08/2026

Sonya is waiting patiently for Cammy's Open Mic session at the beautiful Cambooya Pub.
We have been having a heap of fun and have loved meeting other musically minded folk as we have been playing at various venues since we decided to do a year traveling around to different places after Bony Mountain Folk Festival
We are really looking forward to getting back to Bony Mountain in September, which sort of completes the year.

24/08/2026

When we are not at the various music festivals we have been at, we have been playing at some open mic gigs around Toowoomba. Cowboy Craig runs a couple around town, and we had a ball at the Irish Club Hotel open mic.

23/08/2026

Name an Australiana music classic you would love to hear on stage

20/08/2026

It's always a frantic time when we get back from appearing at a music festival, repairing and cleaning up.

We are getting ready for our next gig from 6 pm
Woodduck Inn licensed Hotel Woodenbong
Playing our brand of infused entertainment.

We are playing as the entertainment for the documentary that a Filmmaking friend of ours is staging a viewing of, as well as other info on the Yowie.

Saturday 29th August Woodenbong Public Hall Mt Lindsay Highway

Woodenbong Yowie Gathering Event Program

11 30 Meet and Greet

12 30 Films in Hall

Please note: no unauthorized cameras or photographs are to be taken during this screening

1 pm Close door between Hall and Kitchen

Audience entrance at kitchen side entrance

Gold coin donation and sign in with email for future events

1 pm Kitchen Area

Please note: no unauthorized cameras or photographs are to be taken during this event

Speakers

Gary Opit Website

Short history of the 1970s Woodenbong Yowie encounter reports and why they contribute the most important data ever collected on the Yowie and help to identify it.

The cultural impact of the Yowie, acts as a catalyst for community engagement, bridges cultural gaps, and prompts collective analysis as a unifying socio-cultural focal point.

Stephen and Evan Strong Website: forgotten origin

Sharing research and perspectives on the Yowie, Indigenous traditions and the mysteries surrounding Australia’s ancient past

Stets and Josie Strohfeld Website

Yowie investigators and researchers

2 30 Hall Rescreening films

Please note no unauthorized cameras or photographs to be taken during this screening

Yowies in My Backyard JayneeAM

Synopsis: Two yowie enthusiasts document their first-ever experience of being taken on a guided trek up the back of Woopwoop Woodenbong to find evidence of the existence of yowies

Yowie Stories Fiona Frazer

Synopsis: '.A stop-frame animation using photography, printmaking, painting, and needle-felted yowies based on witness accounts from northern NSW (Lismore, Dunoon, Blue k**b, Numinbah Valley, and Border Ranges).

3 pm until 4 pm Main Hall Q and A by popular demand between speakers and audience

4-5 pm Yowie experiences locals share their stories

Photographs and videos by consent only

18/08/2026

We have just arrived back in Ktown after 2 weeks away at Back to Basics Music Muster and in the Bush, great events, but the location is a black hole for internet signal, so we have not been able to post much, but meeting the crew from Mouldy Haggis was a lot of fun. We will post a bit more in the coming days.

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