Comedians swap the stage for a shearing board
And the local community seem to be just as rapt. All 220 tickets for this year's show sold out in just six days. It all started 13 years ago, when Macdonald’s mates Scott and Bridget Blanks visited from Auckland where they run The Classic: Comedy Club. The Macdonald’s do a fair amount of entertaining in the shed, and Scott thought the venue would be fantastic for a gig, with the shearing board doubling as a stage. So a few months later, the family hosted the first Comedy in the Woolshed event to raise funds for a school. Macdonald said her husband John has happily gone along with t...
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