When cricket tragic and music legend David Bridie walks out onto the Radio Springs Hotel stage next Sunday there will be one very special person in the audience.
Mick Harvey, the great nephew of the champion Bradman Invincibles batsman Neil Harvey will be there.
Mick, a longtime Bridie fan, met David at the Port Fairy Folk Festival and the pair bonded over their mutual love of cricket. But the friendship was sealed when Mick, a former Gippsland detective, revealed his connection to the iconic post-war Australian Test team.
“I told him my great uncle was Neil Harvey and he took my hand and bowed,” Mick chuckled.
“He said he was in the presence of cricketing royalty!
“But the reality was I was in the presence of Australian music royalty.”
Now 97, Neil Harvey is the last surviving member of Don Bradman’s 1948 Invincibles and still regarded as perhaps the world’s greatest batsmen.
Mick will travel to Lyonville on Sunday December 1 to watch David perform at the Radio Springs Hotel.
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