Events
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Set for sound: Newstead goes live
Newstead is a town in anticipation just days out from its biggest event of the year. The annual Newstead Live Music Festival is about to triple the town’s population over this Friday evening through to Monday throughout the Australia Day long weekend. And while there’s more at the racecourse reserve, camping at the town’s oval…
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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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Our Diggers remembered
Good crowds turned out at the Castlemaine Remembrance Day service and events across the region on Sunday November 11 to mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended World War I. Community members were moved to tears as local singer Maggie Jackson shared a song she had written especially for the occasion, We Remember, which…
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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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Scene set for sculpture
The sort of vista that stops you in your tracks sets the scene for the well-anticipated Mica Grange Open Garden and Sculpture Exhibition that opens this weekend at Sutton Grange. Since Mica Grange owners Mary and Bede Gibson held their first such event some five years back, the annual attraction has become a must-do fixture…
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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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Lose yourself to dance
It’s Mental Health Week across Mount Alexander Shire and there’s no better time to put on your dancing shoes and lose yourself to dance. Join the next No Lights No Lycra dance session in Castlemaine this coming Friday. “Dancing is good for your emotional health and has been proven to help fight stress, anxiety and…
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Do the time warp
When Castlemaine’s Leslie Thornton was a schoolboy he lived next door to the school – but was always late. In class the young Leslie would stare longingly at the schoolroom clock and today reports that he could often observe the second hand slowing down – or even stopping completely. Now the acclaimed contemporary artist gets…
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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…