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Miles Back to the Bush Festival

Locality: Miles, Queensland

Address: 141 Murilla Street 4415 Miles, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.backtothebushfestival.com.au

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25.01.2022 A country spread This was the welcome we gave on one of our festival tours - where we showed festival visitors around our local gas, a local country garden and a gallery of art (in a special invitation only location). Miles Back to the Bush Festival is the best Australian country style welcome! See you in Miles next September 9-12.

23.01.2022 Busting to get out and let the kids experience country life? We’ll be ready to welcome you with some authentic bush fun in September if there’s any chance we can... but if we all have to wait a little longer, that’s OK too, we’re not going anywhere and we’ll be here later down the track looking forward to welcoming your family ‘Back to the Bush’ in Miles, Queensland

22.01.2022 Your Friday isolation happy hour, happy memories brought to you from the Bush Beards Bar at #backtothebushfestival The craft beers carefully selected and poured by Miles Windsor Hotel Cheers!

21.01.2022 A handsome young man... a beautiful young lady... an encounter at a fuel stop and thus began the story of these two Miles local legends. Our 2021 festival theme is ‘Legends & Larrikins’, so we’ve been interviewing some local legends and here is their story

21.01.2022 Have you witnessed how a rope was made in the old days? What about a good old millet broom? These skills and more will be demonstrated during the festival as we welcome the team at Australia’s Living History to join us all day on Saturday 11 September. This is something we’re excited to add to our 2021 festival and what better place to see these skills from yesteryear come to life then at our new festival venue - the Miles Historical Village Museum as we celebrate the village’s 50th anniversary

21.01.2022 BIG update from Jimmy Niggles Esq. today - the million dollar beard is coming off! We’re so looking forward to having Jimmy and Skin Check Champions at our festival in September and if you’re not familiar with his story this is well worth a watch

21.01.2022 When we can all see the other side of this chaotic tunnel.... we’ll be ready with the kettle on and a warm country welcome at #backtothebushfestival . Redefining how to do a festival - it’s our great pleasure to invite our festival visitors into our country lives, homes and backyards. This pic was taken at Mark’s place... a local builder who built this special venue by his dam and welcomed us and our festival bus tour to share the tranquility. We have much in store for the next festival - stay tuned. #thisisqueensland

21.01.2022 Are you a collector? We are! and what we mean is in our little town of Miles we’ve got what must be an above average penchant for... weakness for... skill for... collecting cool and quirky stuff! This is one little part, of one collection, held by one of our locals - and to be invited into our homes and backyards to see the rest, just keep the date free for our next #backtothebushfestival because we’ll have our welcome mats out during the Private Collections Tour the ...festival. View photo gallery of last festival’s collections tour here https://bit.ly/3jhNWHa. 9-12 September 2021... where a love of vintage and country collides in Miles, Queensland, Australia

21.01.2022 FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT We love inviting you all ‘back to the bush’ for festival fun in Miles, so it’s with reluctance we announce the POSTPONEMENT of Miles Back to the Bush Festival 2020. We’re pushing all our exciting festival plans forward to next year and will soon have 2021 festival dates to announce for you to pop on the calendar.... Spoiler Alert: don’t stop growing your back to the bush beards (those beards readying for our Beard Appreciation event) because they won’t go to waste . We’re working on a beard photo competition, with great prizes to win this year. Stay tuned for more details.

19.01.2022 repost Miles Historical Village Museum Tribute to the ANZACs The Digger Statue embodies the ANZAC myth and represents the qualities of the ideal Australian - loyalty, courage, youth, innocence and masculinity. This original Digger Statue was relocated from the Pimpama Uniting Church to the Village in 1995 and is located at the entrance to tour War Exhibit. 'LEST WE FORGET'

19.01.2022 Ever been into an underground bunker? Julie lives in one just outside of Miles (check out the video) and if you’d like to stay in a tourist accommodation bunker when you come to the festival next year check it out here http://www.possumpark.com.au/bunkers.html

18.01.2022 It’s such a different street at night! Dinner Under the Stars is one of our favourite events at #backtothebushfestival - held in the vintage streetscape of the Miles Historical Village Museum . Get back to the Bush with us next September!! Stay tuned for festival announcements.

17.01.2022 Feel like you’re not getting anywhere today? Tell us about it!! Our week feels like this tractor pull effort at our last Back to the Bush Festival - going nowhere, fast but still smiling .

17.01.2022 A bit of tractor porn for a dirty weekend in . View the full photo gallery of the tractor pull fun we had at the last Back to the Bush Festival www.backtothebushfestival.com.au/tractor-pull Aliven Photography

16.01.2022 Today we were supposed to be getting down and dirty in our Tough Bugger competition... but since our festival couldn’t happen this year, we’re looking back on some of the fun of the last one . Get training... even a couch potato has enough time to get Tough Bugger ready for September 2021!

15.01.2022 The freedom of getting back to the bush . Looking forward to welcoming you back to Miles when we can all hit the road again. Dogwood Creek walking track

15.01.2022 What’s cracking up Rachel & Ken (our festival committee)?... Swipe through photos to see what they are watching . That’s just one of the teams we saw compete in our Tough Bugger Challenge at #backtothebushfestival ... Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on when our next challenge will be.

14.01.2022 Over-ready to let ALL your hair down as much as we are? We hope to repeat these scenes at our Back to the Bush Beards Competition later this year... stay tuned... with all these covid-restrictions easing and announcements changing every week - we’ll soon know what will be the go with our festival plans.... keep those beards growing in readiness!!

12.01.2022 It’s our happy place too Grey Nomad Awards. Love your words about our Miles

09.01.2022 OUR BIG NEWS We're excited to announce the return of Miles Back to the Bush Festival on 9 - 12 September 2021 will be at a NEW VENUE and will be our BIGGEST reason to celebrate yet! Our 'bush-style' festival events and entertainment will be held as a combined celebration with the GOLDEN 50th ANNIVERSARY of our loved Miles Historical Village Museum!!!... And so we're moving our main festival venue to be at and adjoining the Village! What a cool and perfect venue for our festival - that's probably best described as 'back to the bush country fun with a vintage twist!' Read more about this announcement https://bit.ly/2GURrWP

09.01.2022 The spring wildflowers around Miles . Take a walk through the Gurulmundi wildflowers near Miles - and the best part is that our next #backtothebushfestival will coincide with the spring wildflowers next September 2021 in #milesqld Beautiful by Penny Atfield @open17

07.01.2022 Ever seen a festival where part of the experience is being invited into local backyards and homes to see private and treasured collections? Miles local Jan Mullins delighted visitors with her collection of COLLECTIONS... with everything from vintage dresses to pigs in the garden! We doubt there’s anything else like our self-guided Private Collections Tours anywhere in Australia and until our festival returns in September 2021 we know our local collectors will keep growin...g their treasure troves for your visit . A festival about getting’back to the bush’... with a quirky vintage twist

07.01.2022 We love seeing the old buildings lit up at night at our Back to the Bush Festival dinner under the stars - held right in the streets of the Miles Historical Village Museum . Can’t wait to do it all again - and what a timely picture given all the news last week about Australia losing lots of small town newspapers. Was your town affected by the announcements?

07.01.2022 In the times of ‘the rona’ we hear beards are out of favour - some say less safe in these crazy times . But wild bush beards never go truly go out of style in Miles, Qld and let’s celebrate looking back on some pics when we all let our beards hang loose at our last Bush Beards Competition at #backtothebushfestival View the full photo gallery www.backtothebushfestival.com.au/beard-competition

04.01.2022 Today we were meant to be having having a whole lot of Back to the Bush Festival fun in Miles... 2020, sigh... what a year you've been huh! Lifting our spirits today, we LOVE looking back at the festival song Josh Arnold made at our last festival and we'll keep singing it until we welcome you "Back to the Bush" next September! Check out the video/party here

04.01.2022 Throw your support behind Ranger Nick’s new curry project and join him for his free live-streamed cooking session with 50 curry prizes to be won. Read all about it You may remember Nick from our last festival and he began his career at our local Columboola Country

03.01.2022 WOW the Southern Queensland Country events calendar this September makes for a great trail to follow! ALL MONTH (1 - 30) Sept: Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers https://www.tcof.com.au 4 Sept: One Long Table Chinchilla (multicultural food event) https://bit.ly/3fsgTA9... 9 - 12 Sept: Miles Back to the Bush Festival https://www.backtothebushfestival.com.au 17 - 19 Sept: Bony Mountain Folk Festival, Warwick www.bonymountainfolkfestival.com 22 Sept: Texas Qld Country Music Festival www.texasqldmusicfestival.com.au

03.01.2022 All the best from the Bush this festive season. From our festival family to yours. Safe travels and see you in 2021.

02.01.2022 Have you seen the sweet BIG & BUSHY beards rolling in on our Beard Appreciation competition? Help us by voting for your favourites here: https://woobox.com/mpxniz Plus we’re seeking your entries in the CRAFT BEARD and FAUX BEARD categories. ... Enter your beards at the competition link above, or post your beard to our Facebook page WALL and hashtag it #backtothebushbeard

02.01.2022 Hold onto your hats, our festival entertainment is going to blow you away this September . We’re hanging out for when Dave Manchon and his Rooftop Express Show take centre stage as our final big act on Saturday 11 September Save the date, tickets on sale soon ... @rooftopexpressshow

01.01.2022 Show us your beards! Click link below to upload and ENTER your "Big & Bushy", "Craft Beard" or "Faux Beard" in our online Back to the Bush Beards Competition. You've been growing your sweet beards in 2020, but due to Covid we missed out on running our festival and it’s popular Beard Appreciation Event... so we're now on the search for the beards of 2020 and the winners will receive:... The glory and bragging rights as our 'pin-up model' for the category An engraved trophy Free entry for you and a friend to come join us in person at the next Miles Back to the Bush Festival 9-12 September 2021 and be our guests in person at our next Beard Appreciation Event!

01.01.2022 The collectors bug has bitten twice in this Miles household! Flick through these photos to see Mel and June Bond’s private collections of everything from vintage household items to Elvis memorabilia and June’s hundreds of salt and pepper shakers!! We don’t know any other festival that does this - but we’re ready with such a warm country welcome in Miles during our festival that we open up a trail of about a dozen private collections you can visit on our ‘Private Collection...s Tour’ on Friday 10 September. Choose which collections take your fancy or try to see them all in one day as you self-drive this unique part of our festival. www.backtothebushfestival.com.au

01.01.2022 Collectors are never alone in home isolation... not with the company of a treasured collection. Pictured here is Miles local Neil Ward (aka mad hat collector) Neil opened his home along with a host of other Miles locals for us to have a sneaky peak at his private collection at our last #backtothebushfestival in Miles . It’s such a personal, welcoming, privilege to attend this very unique festival event - our Private Collections Tour! Lots more local private collect...ions (of anything and everything treasured) can be viewed in our festival photo gallery at www.backtothebushfestival.com.au/collections-tour-photos See more