Simmonds was nominated for three Golden Guitar awards at the Country Music awards of Australia, The Healing Hands of Time, written with the album's producer Rod McCormack (Beccy Cole, Adam Harvey, Amber Lawrence, Paul Kelly) being nominated for Female Artist of the Year and New Talent of the Year and Bondwood Boat written with Graeme Connors being nominated for Heritage Song of the year.
During the late-70's through late-80's, Connors wrote songs that became big hits for Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English.
The funeral featured tributes from Slim's children as well as words from other national music stars (Peter Garrett and John Williamson) and music from Graeme Connors, Kasey Chambers, and Troy Cassar-Daley.
Graeme Connors – Country music singer, songwriter, and performer
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