Arts

Family affair at Coach House

KORONG Vale’s MacTaggart family has been plastered over the walls at Wedderburn Coach House Gallery month. Artworks by Rhonda and David and son Elijah make the latest display. “There’s sculptuares, knitting crochet, photographs and paintings...

18 Mar 2025

Duo will fire hall music

LOCAL musicians Justin Lewis and Chris Dane will warm up the audience when the Small Halls Festival rolls into Inglewood next week. Billing themselves as The Ruminators, Justin and Chris will share the stage next week with UK folk artist Lucy...

17 Mar 2025

Local touch wins public art voting

PYRAMID Hill Art Show patrons have “voted local” for the Major’s Vision people’s choice awards. An estimated 700 people viewed a record 300 entries in the third annual show that closed last Thursday in the town’s memorial hall. Newbridge...

03 Mar 2025

Show that makes an impact

BRUSH novices and artists with international showings on their resume have shared top awards at the third annual Pyramid Hill Major’s Vision art show. Several hundred people eagerly awaited the announcement of results in the memorial hall last...

26 Feb 2025

Vanners’ vintage decade

GRAHAM Bradshaw said he felt something of an interloper in Bridgewater last week. The retired timberyard worker from Maldon was making his first visit with van in tow for the annual vintage caravan weekend. But Graham’s van, a 1950s style teardrop...

25 Feb 2025

Elias sings from the heart

THE heart has guided Elias Lanyon in writing the lyrics of his first professional-release single I’ve Ran Out of Tears. The Boort singing sensation shared the story of his latest composition before taking the stage for its official release at...

24 Feb 2025

Choir singing farewell notes

INGLEWOOD Community Choir hopefuls have put away the music. Efforts of previous members of the Goldfields Choir have failed to create a new choir with the small group opting to halt the initiative. One, of them, Duncan Campbell, said they had been...

22 Feb 2025

Third show is crafting a record entry

ARTISTS from across Victoria have confirmed Pyramid Hill’s status as the first major competition of the year. A record 300 entries have been received for the third annual Major’s Vision art show and competition that will be officially opened...

09 Feb 2025

Debs ‘save’ their big night

EAST Loddon district girls will still have the opportunity to “express themselves and have fun” with secondary school students stepping up to organise a debutante ball. Emma Hay and Lyss Mulder have already booked the venue and appointed...

08 Feb 2025

Joy will judge top art

THE works of artist Joy Tatt are in collections on four continents. Her art over last 30 years has been based on observation, interpreting correctness and expressing beauty, harmony and truth with favourite subjects birds, skies, rural subjects and...

27 Jan 2025

Popular book back in print

HISTORY buffs have snapped up copies of an Inglewood history book now back in print. The latest release of A Brief History of Inglewood by Ian J. Wemyss, first published in 1993, hit the shelves at Inglewood Emporium at the weekend and owner Denise...

22 Jan 2025

Theatre group wants to make new star

TALENT scouts are looking for the Loddon’s latest undiscovered stage star. BBAC Productions, the Boort, Buckrabanyule and Community amateur company billing itself as a group of crazy amateur actors, wants a man for a small but key role in its 2025...

20 Jan 2025

Summer reading: Rats from the Hill

FOR 240 days, Australians were holed in the desert sands of north-west Libya refusing to surrender to the might of Rommel’s Afrika Corp. It was the darkest of days in World War Two as British and Allied forces from Commonwealth countries were on...

15 Jan 2025

BOOK REVIEW: Jacka joins a new elite

By CHRIS EARL THE bravery of Loddon’s greatest war heroes Albert Jacka and Albert Borella has been the stuff of stories and legends for more than a century. Both were awarded the highest medal for bravery - the Victoria Cross, both from...

13 Jan 2025