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Part one of Tag-Along Tour 2017 – From the Murray to the Outback.

Part one covers from Swan Hill to Nuriootpa.

This year we started our tag-along tour with 65 caravans at Swan Hill in Victoria. We travelled westwards into South Australia and then we headed north to Broken Hill, eastwards to Bourke and finished the tour four weeks later at Lightning Ridge in outback NSW.

	Graham and Deirdre Our tag-along hosts					The Band Rodney Springer and Rob Hopkins
The Band Trevor Tolton	The Band Alan Percy and Tracey Davis
Guest Artist Julie Rodger	Guest Artist John O’Dea					Guest Artist Laurel Calvert
Guest Artist Kel-Anne Brandt	Guest Artist Clive Cameron					Our Host and the star of the show Graham Rodger
Sound Engineer Colin Ovens				Photographer and Lighting Ken Scouten
The tag-along begins	Meet and Greet at the camp kitchen
The audience at Pioneer Settlement One of the authentic historical buildings throughout the park	The Star of the show Graham gets geared up ready for the first public concert					Julie on stage
Boys and their toys						Some of our 60 plus caravans
Ukulele lessons with Cheryl and Rob	It is only small, but it certainly excited Julie					Yours might be bigger Dad, but remember I caught two!
Preparing for a pancakes breakfast	Pancake breakfast					Tony in his formal attire for breakfast
Spin throws another log on the fire			The hall starts to fill for concert number two
The band gears up for a great night	Lead guitarist Trevor Tolton with Bill, one of our Tag-along Vietnam Vets
Lining up for a tour to Kapunda, organised by Graham and Doreen	Sir Sidney Kidman (alias Graham Smith) outside the home he generously donated to the South Australian Education Department					This photo better captures the grandieur of Sir Sidney’s home
Talented Taggers entertain. After a great day-trip to Kapunda we returned to our caravan park for an evening of fabulous entertainment from the pro-ams. Harmonica by Kerry	Singing from Dorothy					Bush Poetry by Ken
John O’Dea joined the tag for the first time tonight and sang his hit song - “We’ve lost the Oldies” to the delight of his audience.	Many a time on tour Graham and Trevor played duets, each out to outdo the other. When Alan joined in too, we had three very talented guitarists not only entertaining the tags, but thoroughly enjoying the challenge themselves.
A few drinks, great company, superb entertainment. We all sat around and thoroughly enjoyed our first major Happy Hour of the tour.						Vin
Even the entertainers were thoroughly entertained	The next day was 25^th of April and many of us headedoff to the Dawn Service					Bill Slegers at the Dawn Service
Graham concluded the Dawn Service with half a dozen songs from his album “They Answered the Call”	Graham with some of our members who were also returned soldiers.
That afternoon we were off to the Soldiers Memorial Hall for a special Anzac Tribute Concert. A superb hall housed just over 300 people for this tribute. The audience, apart from being sizeable, was very responsive, appreciative and knowledgeable. Our entertainers responded with what many considered the best concert of the tour.		The hall filling up prior to the concert
The entire band onstage to enjoy their encores and standing ovation.
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