More than 130 jazz bands will converge on Halls Gap for the Grampians Jazz Festival this weekend. Halls Gap Primary School is holding a craft-market fund-raiser on Sunday from 9am to 2pm as part of the festivities. The market will include home-made and home-grown produce, goods, clothing and art and craft items. Bacon and egg [...]
A Horsham photographer has appealed to Wimmera Football League clubs to help him establish a contemporary pictorial history of the game in the region. Stuart Deayton of Willamy Images is collating photographs of premiership teams and notable individual club players and is keen to ‘fill the gaps’ in the digital library. Stuart has been working [...]
By PETER MILLER A Geelong dance company featuring a former Horsham dancer will perform in Horsham in March, as part of a cabaret tour. Dance Initiative Productions is taking its 2012 cabaret show ‘Maiden Voyage – The Tour’ throughout country Victoria and Tasmania, culminating in a performance at Melbourne’s 2012 Fringe Festival. The show features [...]
South Australian country music performers Dave Prior and John O’Dea will kick off a big year for Horsham Country Music Association when they play two gigs at Horsham RSL on February 23 and 24. Prior, from Mintaro near Clare, will be making his fourth appearance in Horsham while O’Dea, from Orroroo, will be appearing for [...]
Hindmarsh Shire Council is giving its residents the opportunity to celebrate the return of water to their favourite lake with a special three-day festival next week. Live @ the Lake is a free festival at Lake Hindmarsh’s Four Mile Beach from January 27-29. The festival will feature a variety of local bands and performers as [...]
By GREG O’CONNOR Harrow sheep farmer Ron Penrose is igniting a new passion in his life. The budding artist is five years into a visual arts degree with University of Ballarat’s Horsham campus and is set to unveil his best work at an exhibition in the Wimmera capital next week. Mr Penrose has turned a [...]
Melbourne pop rock band Masketta Fall will perform in Horsham this weekend. The five-piece band – from left, Benjamin Downing, Daniel Molivas, Braden Ross, Ryan Spiller and Jamie Rolph – takes influences from acts including Panic! At The Disco, Good Charlotte and Simple Plan and is touring to promote its self-titled EP. The band has [...]
An army of Wimmera retirees pursuing new skills, artistic flare and knowledge is quietly growing and calling for more people to get involved. Registered members of the University of the Third Age in Horsham have grown to about 330 to 340, providing a new dimension to regional growth. Horsham and District U3A, which has its [...]
Organisers preparing for this year’s Horsham Country Music Festival from March 22 to 25 have encouraged budding music artists and bush poets to register for the event as soon as possible. Festival co-ordinator Lyall Wheaton said the festival would include two Walk Up country music segments, busking and a Walk Up poets’ breakfast. He said [...]
