With the wine industry in crisis, Andrew Sarakinis is glad his career in music allows him to provide for his family financially and still honour his' blockie' roots.
Andrew Sarez is a stay-at-home dad who has turned DJing into a money-spinning event-management business, while still farming grapes in his home town.
"It was just a hobby that I was interested in but as I started playing a few parties and introducing music to friends it really took off," he said. And then from there I played festivals, I had a residency job on Triple J hosting Mix Up on Saturday nights and I was getting booked interstate," he said.But taking the next step meant breaking the news about his career aspirations to his mum and dad.
Down river from Barmera in the tiny town of Moorook, Rob and Irene Cordy have sold their vineyards and packed their lives into a caravan. One female wine grape grower who was interviewed went as far as saying: "Child abuse here is if you leave your property to your children"."When the industry does turn, this will be a really thriving area again, like it has been in the past," he said.Despite how far he has come, he still describes himself as a proud "blockie", someone who farms a block of irrigated land provided to soldier-settlers after WWI and WWII.
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