‘Nutbush’ Dance Record Set at Australian Bush Fest – Billboard

Australians love Tina Turner. And they proved it en masse, when virtually 6,000 followers confirmed up at an outback social gathering to bop the “Nutbush,” setting a brand new document within the course of.

The Big Red Bash in Birdsville, a distant Queensland city 1,000 miles west of the state capital, Brisbane, has raised the document in years previous.

But on this event, simply weeks after Turner’s loss of life, on the tenth anniversary of the pageant, and the fiftieth anniversary of “Nutbush City Limits,” the previous mark was squashed.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 5,838 dancers did their factor — many sporting colourful outfits for the event. That determine simply eclipses the previous mark of 4,084 folks, set at the identical website in 2022, and the 1,719 folks recorded by Guinness World Records in 2018.

“It’s a military operation trying to get them lined up in rows and dancing for five minutes,” says Greg Donovan, founding father of the Big Red Bash, held July 4-6.

Helen Taylor, co-founder of the Australian Book of Records, caught all of the motion.

“Everyone was in the spirit of things today. It was the best I’ve ever seen,” she recounts. “We had people on crutches dancing, there was a girl dancing the Nutbush and hula hooping at the same time.”

The record-setting effort additionally raised greater than A$100,000 for charitable causes.

Australia has a deep, lasting reference to Turner. Her extraordinary solo comeback in 1984 was engineered by Roger Davies, the nice Australian artist supervisor who has guided the careers of Pink, Olivia Newton-John, Janet Jackson, Cher and lots of others.

The rock icon additionally starred as Auntie Entity in 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome, the third in George Miller’s Mad Max motion film franchise, and from 1989 to 1995, Turner was the face of the National Rugby League (then the New South Wales Rugby League or NSWRL). Followers of the game keep in mind Turner as “The Queen of Rugby League.”

Turner died May 24, at the age of 83.