It was a full program across Coonamble over the October Long Weekend.

With the Greyhound Racing Carnival in full swing, their famous calcutta, the Harvest Lunch, the Tinderalla comedy show and a number of private celebrations, a free country music concert was the icing on the cake.

Coonamble's main street was transformed on the night of Saturday 5 October for its first-ever Vision Splendid country music festival with big-name country acts Lee Kernaghan, the Wolfe Brothers and Coonamble's own Max Jackson.

The main street was closed off from the early afternoon to allow for the bands to do their soundcheck.

The event kicked off around 6 pm with Max Jackson playing some of her most well known songs and even introducing some new ones such a Hold My Horses.

Following Max was long-time Australian country music singer Lee Kernaghan who had some diehard fans in the crowd cheering him on.

While he was on stage, Lee commented that it was great to see small towns get put on the map with festivals that have the potential to attract people from all over Australia even beyond to come and see what's out west.

It was almost impossible to count but several hundred people showed up for the lively nighttime event.

The Coonamble Shire Council organised the festival with the help of the Open Streets grant, designed to reinvigorate the nightlife in town centres across the state.

Along Castlereagh Street Swanny's Foods, Gumnut Cafe and the Global Village café kept their doors open and were bolstered by other food stalls from the Rotary and Lions Clubs, CWA and authentic Indian dishes from the Mobil Service Centre to feed the hungry crowd.

"It was great," Global Village café owner Ahmad Karanouh said. "A bit loud but it was good."

Castlereagh Street, Coonamble was packed with concert-goers jockeying for position.

The station's manager Bill Carroll got the chance to interview Max Jackson and the singer signed six hats which the radio station will be giving away to listeners.

"It was absolutely fantastic," the new president of the Community Radio Station Martin Bennett said. "We had a great time."

The Coonamble Shire Council said they were very pleased with how the event went.

"We were very happy with it and the feedback almost universally was positive," Director of Community, Planning, Development & Environment Barry Broe said.

"The most common feedback was people said it was fantastic to see so many people in the main street, as well as the music itself being excellent."

With entry limited to the northern end of the main street, some festival goers pointed out that for future events, access would need to be improved to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers, and better lighting to make people feel safe walking to their cars in the dark.

Mr Broe said that council would like to hold a similar event again next year.

"We would certainly like to hold such an event yearly, but it is subject to grant funding.

"We will be having an internal de-brief with the full team to take any lessons from it, the positives and any areas to make it even better."