Entertainment
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Castlemaine base for Glenrowan film shoot
Castlemaine has been chosen as the base for next year’s anticipated filming of Glenrowan, the latest ambitious film project of established filmmaker Matthew Holmes. Holmes is the filmmaker behind 2016 bushranger film The Legend of Ben Hall and with Glenrowan turns his attention to portraying the final 48 hours of Ned Kelly’s life as a…
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Raising the roof
Founder of the highly successful Vocal Ranges Festival and director of the Pollyphonics Choir, Polly Christie is bringing her latest choral project to the bar stools of Kyneton. The KC Pub Singers are inspired by the rising movement of pub choirs – kicked off by the Choir! Choir! Choir! project in Canada – bringing together…
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Free-range fun
Let the kids roam free on Kyneton Show Day this Saturday to explore their imaginations with hours of free activities in the kids’ zone around the netball courts. There’ll be a new ‘free play’ addition in the kids’ tent where youngsters can choose from a craft smorgasbord, reusing materials like cardboard tubes, boxes, fabric, yarn…
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Up in lights
Hollywood Theatre will soon light up for two young Woodend filmmakers. Flynn Mazza and Kale McQuade were named winners of the International Youth Silent Film Festival’s regional finals for their murder mystery Suspected. Their three-minute film follows a detective interviewing four suspects and their work is now bound for the international finals to be held…
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A challenge for young and old
Some started work on their entries months ago, others will throw something in at the last minute, but whatever you do, don’t miss out on entering the Kyneton Show on November 16 and 17. There’s something for everyone, regardless of age or skill. It could be something from your garden, kids’ craft, your chook’s eggs,…
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Sisters get show-ready
Drummond North sisters Rhiannon, 12, Zoe, 10, and Sasha, 7, have been preparing for months for the cattle competition at November’s Kyneton Show. It will be the first time all three Hohnberg girls are old enough to enter the Junior Handler competition. “They live for it,” their mum Hannah said. “That’s all they talk about…
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Fun on the farm
Experience food, wine, beer and craft from across the region at the Carlsruhe Fire Brigade’s Wine and Food Festival on Sunday, November 4, from 11am to 4pm. The event will highlight local producers as well as art, craft and variety stalls, and children’s activities. It will also feature performances by local musicians. The event will…
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Concert for Jarrah
The organisers behind the ‘Jarrah’s Fight for Sight’ Go Fund Me campaign, have announced details of a benefit concert to be held next month, with all proceeds going to Jarrah and his family. Nine-year-old Jarrah Podesta has lost both of his eyes to retinoblastoma – a rare form of malignant cancer that only occurs in…
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New festival collapses
An arts and wellness festival awarded $450,000 in state government funding has been cancelled. Eyebrows were raised when the government announced the significant funding allocation earlier this year for the new Live.Love.Life Festival, which aimed to showcase Daylesford and Macedon Ranges, while established festivals including the Woodend Winter Arts Festival had their funding reduced. Daylesford…
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Sunday session
A live music concert at the Kyneton Racecourse is the latest fundraising effort by the Kyneton Football Netball Club. Popular singer/songwriter Reece Mastin, who is now a familiar face around Kyneton, will head the lineup of live talent on October 14. “I fell in love with Kyneton and its lovely people, can’t wait to come…
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Help blow the trumpet
Castlemaine’s Thompson Foundry Band is blowing its own trumpet by making a movie following its sellout concerts at last year’s Castlemaine State Festival. Local filmmaker Leonie Van Eyk has a film in production and the band is crowdfunding to raise the money to complete it in time for an early evening gala premiere in the…
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Indie rock wins battle
Indie rock group Dr. Frisco brought the wow-factor to win Macedon Ranges’ Battle of the Bands heat on Saturday. The Braemar College schoolmates will take their talent to regional finals in December. The Macedon Ranges heat attracted a 150-strong crowd at the Kyneton Town Hall. The runner-up was Crane and a judge’s talent award went…