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Nambour, the once jewel in the crown of the beautiful Sunshine Coast, the sweet sugar sprinkles on the parfait that was Queensland’s fruit salad bowl of yore. These days a much derided poor cousin, whose fall from grace was as swift and as merciless as the sub tropical sun that bakes the tree fringed valley in which it’s nestled, its former glory gone, like the black snow that once settled on freshly laundered sheets, a blessed gift from the towns beating economic heart, the Sugar Mill.

But we Nambourines are made of sterner stuff; we know how to take a knock, and Phoenix like, rise from the ashes of the cane fire … mainly because we know how to laugh at ourselves.

Welcome to the NAMBOUR VARIETY SHOW, a riches to rags story of a Queensland Town dethroned from her lofty social perch by the ravages of economic consumerism, a lack of surf shops and a fickle tourism market.

Part entertainment, part social experiment, the Nambour Variety show seeks to reclaim her crown at least in part even if it is only digitally (for now). Like an olde radio show we seek to reveal and relive the shiny past and expose the struggling underbelly, with real stories and real people and at