IN PICTURES: Cuby GrooveFest dazzles hundreds at Cuballing

Cuballing had “never seen anything like it” as hundreds crowded to the small Wheatbelt town to boot scoot, perform, win prizes, and attempt a world record over two massive nights. The Cuby GrooveFest drew about 1400 festival goers from Friday to Sunday with a line-up of local and state-wide country acts kicking off the event. The Wheatbelt’s largest music festival had Cuballing’s Campbell Street buzzing on Saturday with vibrant markets and buskers while activities including giant Twister and Jenga, totem tennis, ball games, and quoits provided fun for all ages. Unforgettable performances by Wheatbelt artists Don’t Tell Daisy, Ma Baker and Russell Gooley followed by Melbourne’s Des Cortez and Fremantle’s San Cisco, who just finished their Australian tour, had people dancing until the early hours of the morning. Organiser and shire president Eliza Dowling said she was “struggling to see how it could’ve been better”. “The whole thing was so amazing, just absolutely fantastic, everybody loved it,” she said. “We pulled off something incredible, I can’t believe that we’ve run something like this here, the music, the sound, the lights, and our local performers, all the local artists, it was so surprisingly good. “And it was really nice for local musicians to catch up with other bands from Melbourne, Fremantle, and Perth. “A local chap said to me ‘I’ve lived here for 40 years and I’ve never seen anything like it’.” At 11am on Sunday, 115 locals came together to set a new world record for the biggest human quaver musical note but fell short by 206 bodies. “Everyone all danced so hard they ran out of legs to attend the world record attempt,” Cr Dowling said. The creatively inclined marvelled at the 40 local art pieces on display with six of the 10 for sale sold, raising $850 for the artists, and artist James Giddy painted a live mural on Saturday.