BPW North Lakes is looking forward to welcoming you to our lunch at Murrumba Downs Tavern on Thursday January 28 (fourth Thursday). Your lunch ticket includes a two-course meal and complimentary tea and coffee.

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Our guest speaker is Barry Bull, a love of Music and Community.

Barry Bull spoke to us a few years ago about his iconic business Toombul Music, but this morning his talk is titled The Gift of Sound.

Barry is an acknowledged community champion for the Hear and Say Centre and has raised over $35,000 supporting children with hearing loss to learn to listen and speak and reach their full potential in life.

In the 2019 Australia Day honours list Barry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the performing arts, particularly through music.

Barry rarely speaks in public these days without his guitar, sharing his greatest recreational love - words and music - and the gift of sound.

BARRY BULL'S BIO (OAM)

FOR more than fifty years, Barry Bull has given his heart and soul to his greatest recreational love - music. From a young age he discovered the genetic codewords to success - energy and passion.

A former musician and national record company executive, he is best known for his multi award winning Brisbane business Toombul Music, which he kept in the spotlight of the Australian music industry for more than twenty-five years, winning over thirty Westfield retail awards and becoming one of the most loved music retail portals of its time.

Barry’s desire to share his extraordinary life in music resulted in a foray into the wacky world of public speaking and the publishing of four business books.

When cyclone internet devastated music retail, Barry devised and compiled Music for Cruizin’ to share his special brand of music. This highly successful double CD series released through Sony Music sold thousands, earning him an ARIA gold album award in 2014. In 2016, Barry returned to his musical roots to perform live musical concerts off his memoirs, the latest of which are the Gift of Sound fundraising presentations, supporting awareness for hearing impaired children.

An acknowledged community champion for Hear and Say, and an active member of the Mooloolaba Surf Club, Barry was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2019 Australia Day Honours for service to the performing arts, particularly through music.

With a passion for early morning ocean swimming and playing his vintage Fender guitar, Barry’s latest project is a new book titled Unbreakabull, in honour of his late wife Kayleen. An inspirational true story that offers a unique insight into the mind of an Australian music business icon and, most poignant of all, hope and resilience to anyone who has lost a loved one.