When performing together or even just setting up a photo shoot, Border entertainers Rodney Vincent and John Walker have a lot of fun.
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They plan to share that fun with their audience on Australia Day when they take the Commercial Club Albury stage at 5pm.
Vincent asked Walker to join his annual Australia Day celebration show for something a little bit different.
"I love working with John," the singer and guitarist said. "It's the interaction on stage that I really enjoy.
"There's nothing like when we talk to each other and we look at each other and go, like, 'What are you doing?' but we know where we're sort of going."
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As well as some ad libs and impersonations, Walker plans to present poems such as Noonday Axeman by the late Les Murray.
"Poetry is something that's incredibly Australian yet it's been lost a bit," Walker said.
"When you start actually enunciating the poetry, it actually sounds like music, the way it's written, the accents and his positioning of words.
"That's what I want to achieve, bring back a bit of that poetry, that real, raw, grinding Australian-ness, because we don't want to lose that."
The free show will focus exclusively on Australian music, with iconic songs such as Waltzing Matilda and Up There Cazaly.
Vincent said he'd put together a "roll of renown" for the Border, featuring people from the region who went on to achieve fame in sport, acting or music.
Photos from then and now will also highlight some of the changes Albury-Wodonga has experienced.
Walker said many people who lived in capital cities or visited from overseas were fascinated by the Australian bush.
"It's something that we, at times, take for granted until there is something like a bushfire," he said.
"And then you suddenly go, 'Wow, this beautiful place that we live in is at times ecologically fragile'."
But celebration remains their Australia Day theme.
"We've got all year to reflect on who we are or what our background is, what our history is, where we are going forward," Walker said.
"This day should just be, 'Look, it's great to be us', especially in times of hardship."