NSW Bushfires: Wagga’s Daryl Day joins with bands for Raise Your Voice

A number of musicians in the Riverina will hit the stage - with a specially-written song paying tribute to the fireys - to raise funds for the Rural Fire Service.

Wagga band Bitter Shoosh — Scott Cochrane, Troy Obrien and Jase Ip — on the fire ground during the shooting of a music video to raise funds for bushfire-affected communities. Picture: Supplied

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The spirits of those impacted by the devastating bushfires are set to receive more support thanks to a musical collaboration to raise funds this month.

Wagga entertainer and promoter Daryl Day came up with the initiative to host a concert, which he has called Raise Your Voice, after seeing the devastation the bushfires have had on the region and the country.

Among the many who will be on stage at the concert are Chocolate Starfish, Bitter Shoosh, Groove Factorie and Australian Army Band Kapooka to raise money and the spirits of the communities left reeling from the Dunns Road and Green Valley fires.

The proceeds will also go to the NSW Rural Fire Service.

Wagga musician and entertainment promoter Daryl Day. Picture: Supplied

“The line-up for the bands quickly came together,” Mr Day said.

“There is no shortage of talented musos from the region willing to play for a great cause like this.”

Bitter Shoosh’s Scott Cochrane — who saw first-hand the carnage caused across the region with his job as a TV cameraman — also wrote a song to help promote the cause.

NSW RFS conducting property protection patrols at the Dunns Road fire at Mount Adrah on January 10. Picture: Getty Images

“When Daryl rang me one afternoon, not long after returning home from the fire zone, I was mentally and emotionally stuffed,” he said.

“I’d been up there following the fires for close to three weeks and felt I didn’t have it in me to write anything decent, let alone trying to put all of what I had witnessed into a few minutes of song.

Adam Craig, Daryl Day and Sean Daniels of The Convicts will be one of the many musicians to feature at the February 15 concert. Picture: Supplied

“I sat on the concept, contemplating for a week or so and the strongest most powerful thing that kept coming back to me was the first responders, the frontline,” Mr Cochrane said.

“Mostly volunteers these people — just great humans.

“From that realisation and with the help of sound engineers and local musos, we had a finished song in seven days.”

All the money raised from the song - Frontline - and the concert at Wagga Showgrounds on February 15 will go toward the Snowy Valleys Community Foundation for Tumut Region, which directs funds to those who need it most.

The song is available at Stream Space.