That is the promise from Marc Christowski from Empire Touring, organiser of the upcoming Sunset Sounds in Mudgee on October 30.

The one day concert in the Spring which will see Daryl Braithwaite, Kate Ceberano, Russell Morris, The Black Sorrows, Richard Clapton, Dragon, Ross Wilson, Shannon Noll, Wendy Matthews and Bachelor Girl take to the stage at Craigmoor Wines in Mudgee.

Marc, who is no stranger to Mudgee, having worked with the organisers of A Day on the Green in the past, said the Mudgee Sunset Sounds event came about in a very unexpected way.

They say it's a small world, and in the music industry, it can be even smaller.

It was 2020 and Marc was involved in the annual Variety Bash for Children's Charity and happened to cross paths with someone with an advantageous connection to Mudgee.

Marc happened to be in a group with the brother-in-law of Mudgee Wine Association's Julie Watt.

They got to talking and they said the people of Mudgee were looking for something after A Day on the Green left, so after a few wines and a few phone calls with the people at Craigmoor and other players in town, the idea had taken its first big step to coming to life.

"Many, many years ago, I used to be in business with the guys from A Day on the Green. I was sort of very heavily involved in presenting a lot of those concerts at Mudgee back then," Marc said.

"It was crazy and that's exactly what happened. So I had just gotten back after the Variety bash and I just went back to the office and said to my staff 'look, Mudgee really wants to do something. The venues keen the council's keen, the people will be keen' - we're going to attract a good amount of business into the town.

"So I rang up a few of my artists like Daryl Braithwaite and Kate Ceberano and they just jumped at the opportunity that they said look yeah we are so frickin' keen to get to Mudgee because you know we don't get out to those areas enough."

Marc said the industry had been hit hard during the pandemic, with little to no support from the government and artists are champing at the bit to get out and play venues again.

"That day in March, it just all stopped. And it's only been - you saw what happened to Bluesfest last weekend Hopefully that won't happen again. And, you know, there's vaccines rolling out. By October it'll be business as usual," he said.

Marc said the show is 'nothing but hits', with the artists doing shorter sets focusing mainly on their hits.

"You know what, I'll be very surprised if we don't sell out because people haven't been able to go out for a year at least. And the other thing is that... there hasn't been show in Mudgee like this for three or four years," Marc said.

"So, you know, we're really channeling something really great from a really great period of music.

"They can expect never a dull moment. from the, from the time the first act start. We've got we've got like an incredible visual presentation. You can also expect some a few little surprises that we're going to hatch with a few people doing a few things together, say, don't give too much away in that department.

"I urge people to buy their tickets because I just think that demand is going to be very strong. And I promise people that they'll have an incredible time and no doubt that they'll get their money's worth."

Patrick Auld, Cellar Door Manager at Craigmoor said it was great to have music back at the winery.

"Everyone is delighted, certainly over the weekend we started talking about it and people are saying 'where can we book?'. It's quite encouraging because it's coming back to Craigmoor," he said.

"They approached me about six months ago to see if we could do something and I of course said 'yes' and we've just finally got it all together in the last week or so.

"It's our intention to have more concerts with Sunset Sounds over the next couple of years. We're talking about doing some next year and... may even have the opportunity to take it up to two a year if not more."

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