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MainFM celebrates Australian music
94.9 MainFM will be celebrating all the diversity and talent of homegrown artists with a full week dedicated to playing Australian music in honour of Australian Music Month. Celebrating everything that’s great about Australian music, listeners can expect to hear even more local content, special programs, interviews, retrospectives and playlists. “Ausmusic Week has always been…
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Sculpture entries open
It’s a Small World sculpture prize, coinciding with next year’s Castlemaine State Festival, is being hosted by the Newstead Arts Hub from March 18-April 9. Established and emerging artists are welcome to enter pieces exploring the theme It’s a small world. It’s a phrase often used to describe the connection between people and events around…
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Keeping backyard chooks
Understanding chicken (chook) social behaviour makes it easier for the backyard enthusiast to properly house, feed and importantly, enjoy their personalities. Chooks are really smart. They have exceptional eyesight, can recognise people’s facial features, distinguish colours and communicate with more than 24 vocal sounds. Their hearing is amazing too and they recognise differing voices, car…
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Worldly poet to Woodend
Chamber Poets continued to delight visitors from near and far at the Woodend RSL on Saturday October 8 and featured Castlemaine poet Ross Donlon. Since the previous month’s invitation to songwriters, the October event enticed more musicians back among the poets in the Open Section. Ross Donlon’s reputation as a consummate performer was enhanced with…
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Ross Wilson’s ‘Cool World Tour’
Melanie Barnes The Express caught up with renowned Australian singer-songwriter, musician and producer Ross Wilson early last week as he prepared to launch his latest tour of regional wineries. Wilson of Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock fame launched his latest ‘Cool World Tour’ with a Grand Final Eve performance at Crown’s ‘The Palms’ and is…
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Cosi comes to Kyneton
Cathouse Players are excited to bring audiences Louis Nowra’s Cosi this month. An iconic Australian piece, Cosi is set in a Melbourne mental institution in 1971 where we meet Lewis – a fresh-out-of-university director. His brief is to, “put on something that will bring the patients out of their shells”. Lewis encounters manic-depressive Roy who has a…
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A show that rocks!
Songs of Queen will fill Kyneton’s Bluestone Theatre when We Will Rock You shows this November. Kyneton Theatre Company promises another stand-out show on the back of the popular Mamma Mia in March. “We Will Rock You is based on Queen songs you’ve known for so long that they’re kind of embedded in your soul,”…
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Precision’s double supreme
Baynton’s Precision Alpaca Group had double success at the Melbourne Royal Alpaca Show winning alpaca supreme champion in both major categories. Exhibited by Taryan and Max Mathews, Pacofino Bacardi was awarded supreme champion Suri, and Pacofino Hyperion ET won supreme champion Huacaya. This year the couple took a team of 25 alpacas to compete at…
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Renewal raising funds for climate
Respected Central Victorian printmaker Helen Seligman is set to unveil an exhibition of her latest works at Castlemaine’s Phee Broadway Theatre foyer in the spirit of ‘Renewal’. Helen’s exhibition aims to raise funds in support of climate action organisations ‘Market Forces’, 350.org, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and the Indigenous Youth Climate Action group ‘Seed’. Seligman…
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Artist to feature on The Block
Artwork by Castlemaine’s Kylie Cuthbertson will be featured in upcoming episodes of The Block, this season filmed at South Gisborne. The artist’s work was discovered by one of the show’s producers who invited her to create pieces to offer to contestants. “House One chose a work for a room that they did,” she told Express. “After that,…
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Wood’s landscape win
Eve Lamb Castlemaine artist Greg Wood has won Victoria’s $20,000 John Lesley Art Prize. The local artist claimed the newly announced award with his oil on linen work entitled Reimagining, inspired by Castlemaine’s Forest Creek where it runs near his Chewton home. And fellow Castlemaine painter, Rob Maclaurin, also has cause for celebration as he…
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Big clouds and back roads
Eve Lamb Art lovers can expect plenty of big clouds and back roads in the new upcoming solo exhibition by acclaimed Castlemaine painter, David Moore. Soon to launch at Maldon’s Cascade Art Gallery, Moore’s upcoming exhibition is descriptively entitled Central Victorian Landscape Paintings by David Moore and features more than 60 new works painted by…