Local high energy band Strange Trails invites all to come support local and original rock music at the Vic Hotel. Featuring the very best of what’s on offer in the Macedon ranges rock scene.

Marlee Grace will open the night with a set from her recently released and beautifully crafted indie album Rollercoaster.

Elevated Planes will get the gig humming and the crowd moving with their bass-heavy, percussive grooves and afro psychedelic vibes.

And finally local Woodend band Strange Trails will keep the energy pumping with the final set of expansive fuzz rock with the soaring vocals of Brett Franke.

A night for original music to shine and locals to cut loose.

A rare chance to learn how to build songs that tell stories, drawing on the great Australian narrative song writing tradition that stretches from Lawson to Kev Carmody to Paul Kelly. Lead by Fred Smith, a master of this song form.

This songwriting workshop is for students in Year 9 upwards. Maximum of 20 participants. Bookings open now via Newstead Arts Hub.

‘Fred Smith is simply the best folk/country musician working in this country…beyond writing some of the finest songs about Australians at war, he has created a repertoire that is wry, literate, witty, powerfully emotional and insightful.’ (Bruce Elder, SMH).

Fred Smith’s songs get you laughing, thinking and feeling. Supported by Australia’s most sensitive accompanists, he consistently offers performances rich in humour and depth. His song-cycles have become important historical documents bringing to life the human complexities of the countries he has worked in: PNG, the US and most recently Afghanistan.

Fred Smith and band present Sparrows of Kabul live at Newstead Community Centre. Great songs, vivid images and some cheeky Aussie humour combine to offer a vivid account of Australia’s Afghanistan story told through the eyes of someone who was there.

Fred was there at the beginning in Uruzgan Province and returned at the end working from Kabul International Airport (KIA) on the difficult evacuation. His epitaph for the mission is ‘it was what it was’, and we are left with an admiration for the work of our soldiers and for the courage and tenacity of thousands of Afghans who braved the human logjams outside the gates of Kabul International Airport in a last-ditch dash for freedom.

‘Fred Smith is simply the best folk/country musician working in this country…beyond writing some of the finest songs about Australians at war, he has created a repertoire that is wry, literate, witty, powerfully emotional and insightful.’ (Bruce Elder, SMH).

Recommended for audiences 15+ years.

Rodney Marchant makes intensely beautiful monochrome photographs of the things that attract his well-tuned photographer’s eye: places across the towns and landscapes of our central Victorian goldfields region, using a modified camera, and printing his own images.

Weekends: Sat 6 – Sun 28 May, 10am-4pm.

SUNDAY 2nd APRIL 2023
Tickets: $45 Door: $50
General Admission Doors: 1pm
LUNCH & Show: Limited tickets available, guaranteed front seating
3 Courses: $135
Double Pass: 2 x Tickets + Charcuterie & Cheese sharing board $135
Lunch times pre-show: 12:30pm, 12:45pm, 1:00pm, 1:15pm
Show: on stage 2:00pm
Genre: country

Join ARIA and 8x Golden Guitar Award winning country artist and singer songwriter Fanny Lumsden, as she shares songs and the tall tales behind them in a one-off, intimate, acoustic and VIP setting. You know the type, where secrets are spilled and things that are shared at the gig – stay at the gig. Accompanied by a few of her incredibly accomplished (in both music and lols) band, The Prawn Stars; the very same that when they toured with Paul Kelly, he wrote a song about them. Sharing new songs and old songs, it’s not to be missed.

PALAIS-HEPBURN
The refurbished Palais-Hepburn is one of Country Victoria’s finest venues. Located in Hepburn Springs/Daylesford. Providing superb new dining in our Salon and Cocktail Bar, along with a variety of music and entertainment. Refined art deco interiors with sophisticated glamour, including outstanding sound system, lighting for the artists to play a huge variety of music styles including Jazz, Soul, Funk, RnB, Rock, Folk, Country, Soul, Pop, Alternative, Classical, World music. Keep an eye out for our annual festivals and events.

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Conjuring a unique but universal language from that most ubiquitous of instruments, the acoustic guitar, Tony McManus has both extended and transcended the parameters of contemporary Celtic music. Ranked by peers and predecessors alike alongside the guitar world’s all-time greats, his fiendishly dexterous, dazzlingly original playing draws on traditions from the entire Celtic diaspora – Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Galicia, Asturias, Cape Breton, Quebec – along with still further-ranging flavours, such as jazz and east European music. Long applauded for his uncanny ability to transpose the delicate, complex ornamentation characteristic of traditional bagpipe or fiddle tunes – even the phrasing of a Gaelic song – onto his own six strings, McManus is increasingly being acknowledged also as a pioneering figure in bridging the realms of Celtic music and other guitar genres.

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Tee Up for Kids Foundation is looking for keen golfers from across the region to raise funds for Cafs (Child and Family Services, Ballarat). On Friday, March 17th the annual Ian Stanley Classic will take place at the Hepburn Springs Golf Club.

Ian Stanley was a champion both on and off the course. He was involved at the Hepburn Springs Golf Club for many years and, among his other achievements, was a founding director of the Tee Up for Kids Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which raises money for disadvantaged children in Victoria.

Once again, proceeds from the Ian Stanley Classic, will be directed to Cafs Thread Together program. Cafs Thread Together Hub services the Central Highlands region providing people in need with brand-new clothing and last year the event raised $12,000 to support the program.

Funds will be directed specifically to supporting young people with new clothing, allowing recipients to dress with dignity, removing another barrier to continuing their education and ensuring that each child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Last year, Cafs Thread Together opened a Mobile Wardrobe at Cafs Daylesford office on the same day as the Ian Stanley event resulting in 114 items given to 19 customers in just 2 hours with another 10 clothing packs delivered at a later date.

To register a team visit www.teeupforkids.org.au and follow the links.

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Audio Autumn is a stellar free outdoor gig at the Hepburn Springs Soundshell featuring a marvellous lineup of renowned local talent.

Saturday 18 March from 11am – beautiful chamber music in the intimate settings of the historic Daylesford Anglican Christ Church and Stanbridge Hall.

Four separate concerts over the day with Hepburn Players, The Recorder Co-op, Auncient Hermony and Latin Classical Guitarist Sergio Ercole. With programs ranging from Baroque Concerti with Harpsichord and strings, authentic sounds of the Renaissance with matched recorder consort, Paradiso a concert of elegant and virtuosic late-Renaissance Italian music with voice, baroque guitar, theorbo, recorder, viola da gamba, harpsichord and organ and masterpieces from Italy, Spain and South America on guitar.

Bring a picnic lunch and your picnic rug to enjoy in the church gardens between morning and afternoon concerts. Wine and soft drinks for sale.

Please join us for our first session of the year of Wild Fennel: Hepburn Herbal Circle.

More info here

When: Friday February 17^th, 6pm

Where: Yandoit Cultural- the old church in the bush- Uniting Church Road , Yandoit

Yandoit Cultural is starting the year with Raziel Gutierrez and Julian Harrison – a world/ethereal music fusion duo. Using vocals, aerophone & guitar the music is inspired by nature with a homogeneous blend of influences & spontaneous improvisation.  Both Raziel and Julian are professional musicians with many years’ experience , refined expertise with their instruments and they draw on different cultural and musical backgrounds.

Entry by donation.

For more information and bookings – Contact  Nikki 0432 232 073

Join us on February 12th to celebrate Victoria’s Pride at The Old Auction House in Kyneton in line with the Victoria’s Pride celebrations statewide including the Melbourne Street Party!

See the art, enjoy local band The Femmes as well as nibbles and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with us in Regional Victoria.

That’s So Gay has been organised Macedon Ranges Accessible Arts Inc and supported through Victoria’s Pride, a partnership between the Victorian Government and Midsumma. Also sponsored by Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health’s Country LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Program, Macedon Ranges Shire Council & The Old Auction House.

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Daylesford Regional Arts Co-operative
Pop Up Art Show Australia Day Weekend.

@ No. 94 Vincent Street, Daylesford

Friday 27^th to 28^th. Jan Sat from 10 AM to 4 PM

Sun 29^th, Jan from 10 AM to 2 PM.

As this is a FREE event there are no ticket sales and it will be a case of first come, first in.

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