Grant Luhrs received the Australia Day Award as ‘Citizen of the Year’ for the city of Wagga Wagga in 2012. As a young man Grant trained as a mathematics teacher before deciding what he really wanted was to be a footballing ‘gypsy’. He played professional AFL in Perth and Darwin, survived Cyclone Tracey, then went back to his hometown of Griffith in 1981 and wrote Let’s Get a Cow – which has since been recorded by Chad Morgan, Lester Coombs, the Victorian Police Band and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra!
As well as Let’s get A Cow, Grant is known for songs like Full Moon Tonight and Nude Boot Scootin’, which was Australia All Over 1997 Song of the Year. He is also a regular on live shows around the country with ‘Macca’.
Nude Boot Scootin’ took Grant and The Chook Raffle Band to the River Island Nature Retreat, where they performed the song to 64 nude line dancers, thus creating the world’s First Nude Boot Scooting Record, duly recorded in the Guinness Book of Records! The band has also made two trips to perform in China
Grant has lived in Wagga Wagga since 1982 where he has engineered and produced many albums of band music, country music and show tunes at his Flying Fox Studio. He also taught sound engineering at Charles Sturt University.