TRAVIS COLLINS
opens scholarship for
The CMAA Academy
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“It’s important that we keep looking back and helping people up” – Travis Collins
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Multi-award winner Travis Collins has funded a scholarship valued at $3300 for a student to attend The CMAA Academy senior course in January 2019.
Travis is a graduate of the 2004 Country Music College (as it was then known), after winning a scholarship from a talent quest at the Mildura Country Music Festival.
“If it was something I had to seek out, discover and fund myself, it wouldn’t have been an opportunity I could have taken advantage of,” he said.
“The people I met in that class are people I still work with including Amber Lawrence, Drew McAlister and straight off the back of college, Josh Grundy was a member of my band for several years.”
The singer-songwriter said he wanted to give back to the academy as it had given him so much.
“I’ve been raised to put back in to the things that you benefit from, so during the 2018 Tamworth Country Music Festival, we had a concert called Honkytonk Heroes,” Travis said.
“It was myself, my band and a couple of mates who we conned in to coming along and singing some classic country songs. The theme was tipping our hats to the past of country music while strangely raising money for the future of it. I auctioned off one of my personal guitars and that helped us get over the line and allowed us to write a cheque to the CMAA to fund this scholarship.”
Travis said he hoped to do the same every year and choose an aspiring country artist to win it.
“I do want to pick someone who may not have even considered this kind of thing before,” he said.
“They may come from a background where they, or their mum or dad can’t afford it otherwise. I’m grateful for that leg up, and I want to just restock it.”
Academy general manager Roger Corbett said it was wonderful that a former student was now paying it forward and giving new talent an opportunity to come through the intensive two-week course in January.
“We thank Travis for this and there is no doubt that the student who wins this opportunity will always be grateful for the chance to learn from the best in the business at the Academy in Tamworth,” he said.
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To find out more about applying
for The Academy, visit HERE
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