Howe, Horsburgh & Howie @ Hexham 23rd August 2015: A Sunday afternoon of fun and music at Hexham Bowling Club withBob Howe, Wayne Horsburgh and Graeme Howie (of the Howie Brothers – no relation!)

  Thursday 13th August 2015  was show #174 for Canterbury Country, now in its 16th year. Entitled ‘HILLBILLY vs ROCKABILLY’, the night saw the crowd dance the night away to two great bands –THE MIGHTY GUYS (Leon, Brian, Alan) andTHE HILLBILLY HEAVEN BAND (Bob, Allan, Terry, Tomi, Doug & Nicki). Pictured left, lead guitarists Brian Dean and Bob Howe:  “Country music […]

R.I.P. PEE WEE CLARK, ‘The Georgia Gentleman’ – a wonderful pedal steel guitar player and musician. Born in Macon, Georgia in 1930 and inducted into ‘The Australian Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame’ in 2012. When I did my first professional recording session with Reg Lindsay in 1976, Pee Wee was on the steel guitar. He also played on my […]

Vale AUDREY AULD who passed away on August 9th 2015 in California, aged 51. Born in Tasmania, Audrey was a great talent and had been living in California and Nashville for many years, creating and touring her unique music.  I made sure she was on the very first Canterbury Country show over 15 years ago now, and she […]

New reviews for The Silver Collection:-   CD Review by FRANK IFIELD:- If you were lucky enough to have been around in the 50s and 60s when instrumental hits were in vogue, topping the worldwide hit parades, then you will be as excited as I was on hearing the new album by BOB HOWE called ‘The Silver […]

  Vale BUDDY EMMONS – (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) -“The World’s Foremost Steel Guitarist”. Photos from 7th June 1984:  During my first trip to the USA, my friend DeWitt Scott (Scotty) kindly took me to Jeffran College in Hermitage, Tennessee. When we arrived, Buddy Emmons was in full flight, pausing only between tunes to munch […]

Back in early 1992, I had the pleasure of playing guitar for VAL DOONICAN on his Australian and New Zealand tour – almost two dozen shows. Val was a wonderful talent and a kind and generous man. His lovely wife Lynn was there too and there was a party at Tweed Heads for Val’s 65th birthday with lots of ‘senior’ […]

Bob has released a new CD for 2015 – THE SILVER COLLECTION. It contains 10 newly-recorded instrumental tracks plus 15 bonus tracks revamped, remixed and remastered from previous albums that are no longer available. The CD is available at Bob’s shows or by mail order. Check it out here…

Congratulations to my dear friend DONNA FISK, winner of the 2015 Frank Ifield International Spur Award. The award was presented on 12th March 2015 at the Canterbury Country show in Sydney. Here is Frank’s account of the night in his own words… ” What a fabulous time was had by all at The International Spur Award night […]

  January 2015 – Good news just in: BOB has been nominated in the 2014 AUSTRALIAN CLUB ENTERTAINMENT (A.C.E.) AWARDS, for the first time in the VERSATILE VARIETY ARTIST OR GROUP category, alongside Amber Jade, Danny Elliott, Davin Griffith-Jones, Joey Fimmano and Liz Taylor. Plus… BOB HOWE & HILLBILLY HEAVEN are nominated again in the COUNTRY GROUP/BAND category of the AUSTRALIAN CLUB […]

  Bob Howe, Wayne Horsburgh and Greg Hooper celebrated Australia Day 2015 by playing to a capacity crowd with their ‘Love That Aussie Music’ show at Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club in Sydney.

Bob played several shows at the 2015 Tamworth Country Music Festival including 3 guest spots at the Tomkins Late-Night Honky-Tonk (Wests Legends Bar),  2 surprise appearances Darren Carr’s All Star Arvo (Sth Tamworth Bowlo), playing guitar for Wayne Horsburgh at Graham Rodger’s  ‘International & Australian Award Winners Concert’ (Community Centre),  leading the Allstars Band for ‘Country Music Cares Concert’  (Tamworth Town Hall) […]