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Byron Bay - live music - portraits - lifestyle - events 📸
Find me also at facebook.com/khp.photo
All photos taken by me and © Kurt Petersen.

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✴️The Takeover Tour, closing night at @commonpeoplebrewing!

pix by @khp.photo

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Wild Rocket @howlandmoanrecords this Saturday night In conjunction with @baysounds for the “Bay Sounds” Song Writing Competition.

Free entry,
All ages,
Doors: 7:00pm

Wild Rocket and the Extensions: 9:30pm
The Extensions….?

Photo shot by: @khp.photo at the @mullumrootsfestival

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@norpalismore’s ‘Love for One Night’ is underway! Last nights opening show knocked it outta the park.

Those who’ve bought tickets we look forward to welcoming you soon.

A reminder the pub is still open for visitors too, we’re set up to accommodate everyone, see ya soon!

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Yesterday I had so many beautiful messages
and photos of my last birthday on Bundjlaung before coming home to Ireland.
I looked at them this morning.
With such deep gratitude for so much love, from so many people, across both lands.
And also gratitude for an unexpected learning.

Moving home = no amount of love or paperwork prepares you for how alone this process is. nobody can move for you.
nobody can feel it. nobody can shake the clay from your roots.

Any others returned feeling me?

For someone who lives + breathes community, who builds it, who needs it, who believes it is the whole point…
I really had no idea what this year was going to take and ask of me.

Coming home was always going to be hard. I knew, but what nobody tells you is that every single thing comes undone at once. your health. your work. your income. your housing. your community. your family. every bit of comfort + routine + coping strategy you spent years building, all of it shaken loose at the same time.

You are literally being uprooted and for me that was always gonna be extra shaky as a single mama. self employed. an artist. neurodivergent. chronic health. and an ancestral drive I cannot switch off, this insistence on making change in whatever time I have here.

It took at least 6 months just to shake clay from my roots and I been in the replanting process and feeling more me. I am coming back into how I felt in those pics + then some!

I didn’t really need to look at these stunning pics from @khp.photo cause that night at @brunswick_picturehouse has been etched in my heart, a guiding lighthouse in tough times, a night which made it all the harder to leave.

This morning I looked at my face + naive + cluelessness of what was to come.
I have learned so much deep down to my roots.
Country is a teacher as my dear sis @bunyarradubay @countryasteacher says.

Grateful for it all.
Being in the community and loneliness
The gratiddue and grief
In the Eucapltypus and a Hawthton.
in two birthday seasons.
And in the science of coming home.
And rerooting.

Anyone else relate ??????

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Framed .. by all the favourite men in my life.
One standing either side of me and the other behind the camera lens ♥️

📷 @khp.photo

#family

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What an absolute honour to make a hat for such an incredible Australian icon. Shane Howard, you’re an inspiration! Custom leather hat band by the incredibly multi talented @pete_denahy 🌟 @goannafella in his custom lid at @mullumrootsfestival Photo by @khp.photo

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@sunflower_sessions_photography shared this video today ❤️… the photo pit at Bluesfest.

That’s my people. My friends. The media crew.

All of us lined up at the front, cameras raised, focused on capturing the moment while the music roared behind us and thousands of people felt it out there in the crowd.

We don’t often end up in the frame ourselves… but this is what it looks like — the quiet army documenting the magic.

With Bluesfest now cancelled, this video hits a little differently. It’s not just a festival… it’s a community. Photographers, crew, vendors, stage teams, artists, locals — all the people who make those moments happen.

Grateful for every song, every frame, every friend in that pit.

#FestivalFamily #MusicPhotography #PhotoPit #LiveMusicCulture #ByronBay DocumentTheMoment

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🩵💙
Planning a very different radio show for tomorrow than I thought I would be due the shock announcement that our beloved @bluesfestbyronbay has gone into liquidation.

I’ve been reflecting back on who I’ve seen since our first Bluesfest in 2002 and I have to say it’s not going to fit in a single show. I’m sharing some memories in my stories and shall continue to.

One thing that remains the same is that I’ll be chatting to @stevepoltz . It was to be an excited pre Bluesfest chat but it will obviously be something different now.

I first saw Steve support @jewel at Sydney’s State theatre. I think it was 1999.
Steve would say it was Noineen Noiny Noin.

I bought a copy of his CD One Left Shoe at that show and fell in love with those songs.

Some years later I spotted he was playing at The Basement. We went. We never missed a show after that. Steve toured regularly and built a solid ever growing fan base and friendships.

I worked for Qantas. I started to help out with flight stuff. I picked him and his tour manager Milan + friends up on occasion when called on. We became mates.

We moved to Byron and had a long time, maybe 10 years of not seeing Steve as he didn’t play in this region UNTIL he finally got on the Bluesfest line up.

Reunited.

This was to be his 3rd time on the Bluesfest stages.
Like everywhere else he played he was loved and embraced. Word spread. Crowds grew.

Tune in to @bayfm99.9 tomorrow if you love Steve OR if you have not yet heard of him.

He’s just played @portfairyfolkfestival and is currently at @blue_mountains_music_festival . He still has Australian shows ahead including @camelot_lounge Marrickville 🐪 ♥️ and @nationalfolkfestival Canberra.

We are gutted we won’t get Steve here this time but I know the enthusiasm is huge so hopefully that will ensure that this region is included on his next tour 🙏🏽

Look forward to chatting about all this and more with Poltzy tomorrow.

@stevepoltz

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🪩 The Stayers 💃 🕺🏾

My partner @khp.photo had been so keen to ditch the cameras and let loose on the dance floor late at night and so last night realising it was his last chance and had to be done I summonsed some energy from nowhere and we danced at the Pineapple lounge till 2am.

At one point Kurt even powered the venues fans 🤩

Who else was there ? There were some mad dance offs going down.

And the DJ 🙌🏾🫶🏽🙌🏾. DeeJaye Katch" (Andrew Garvie) who is a founding member of the Australian hip-hop group the Resin Dogs.

This officially concluded our @woodfordfolkfestival

Check out some of Kurt’s off the dance floor highlights and general good festival vibe photos on his page
📷 @khp.photo

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Dear friends of Federal Community Centre

The 25th Federal Park Party was one to remember - the weather was tricky but thanks to our friends at Federal Halls we successfully pivoted to the hall and the show went on!
It really does take a village to put on an event like this year after year. This year we had the extra special art auction also thrown into the mix - and it was a big success.
We have so many people to thank.....

Big thank you to the FSAAI team who provided the bar and nibblies for our art exhibition launch on the Friday night, and for supporting us in our last-minute transition to the Federal Halls for the Park Party the next day - we’re very grateful.

Thank you to the incredibly talented and generous artists - Angus McDonald, Emma Walker, John Campbell, Charly Wrencher, Mel Ladkin, Nickolla Clark, Claire Yerbury, Brendan Kelly, Mahala Magins, Gaby Borgardts, Maria Paterson, Marika Bryant and Dale Rhodes

Thanks to our auctioneer, ‘Golden Tonsils’ James Jackson, our artwork installers Melinda and Emilio, and especially our amazing social media contact creator, Taya.

Thanks to our electrical magician Garth, and the style team Klio, Kate and Angus and team who did an incredible job on setting the vibe.

Huge thanks to Andrea who year after year puts the entertainment line-up together - another great year of music in the hills.

Also thanks to Jan and the SAE team for the sound desk and your expertise.

Thanks to the musicians - Empress Katia, Unsound, Black Train, FBI, The Imprints, Jesse Morris, Sky Eater, and DJ’s Pob and Wax Addicts. Thanks also to the silent disco.

Thanks to the stall holders, and the food providers for the delicious meals.

Thanks to Rory Close for the smoking ceremony and didgeridoo.

Thanks to Kirsten Ackland for our beautiful poster design.

Thanks to Kurt for yet again taking beautiful photos of our community events.

Thanks to our gallery assistants Susie, Anita, Anna and Rick for looking after the art exhibition on the Friday.

Thanks to Mick, Greg and Dave for your set-up and pack-down skills.

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24 years ago today we met up at what was then E55. An underground internet basement bar in the centre of Melbourne, with some pool tables and a cool vibe. Somewhere Kurt hung out regularly after work.

I lived in Sydney and was on my way to Daylesford to see friends.
He and I had already connected over our love of music on some ancient Optus chat thing on our prehistoric Nokias.
So .. we made a plan to meet up.
E55 for a drink and then onto seeing Collards, Greens and Gravy at their residency at The Stork.

Last month we returned to where it all began just to find the place closed for the few nights we were there due to a burst water pipe 😞
It’s now simply called Fifty Five.
The Stork has closed down. Plenty had changed. Including us in many ways I suppose.

The young city living bicycle messenger and the jetsetting Qantas employee now parents of an almost adult child, living in a tiny rural village in Northern NSW. A life i could never have predicted on that first date 24 years ago.

What hasn’t changed is our solid partnership.
Nor our love of live music or each other.

Amongst all the big stuff life delivers, he’s my constant, my steady ground 🩵

@khp.photo

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☔️ 🌧️ The weather forecast may have played havoc with the usual outdoor @federalparkparty but Federal Halls provided a wonderful wet weather alternative at short notice.
Thanks to all who attended, organised and volunteered + thanks to @khp.photo for capturing moments from the day.
May the sun shine again for 2026 as we know the dogs felt left out this year with the cancellation of the much loved dog show 🐕 ☀️

See our Facebook page for Full Photo album

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