The New Brunswick Country Showcase has been around in one form or another for over fifty years. In 1953, George “Bud” Brown, an announcer on Radio Atlantic CFNB, produced and MC’d the first “Capital Co-op Jamboree” in the old Teachers College, on Queen Street in Fredericton. For the next nine years this program was to remain the number one live country music radio stage show in Atlantic Canada and Bud Brown scripted, selected all the artists, announced, and produced every one of the shows! Many well-known artists and groups received valuable stage and radio exposure on the Jamborees including Earl Mitton and the Valley Rhythm Boys, Gordie Cole and the Millers, The Sunshine Boys and the Casa Loma Rhythmaires from the Minto Area,