Byron Bay

Open your diaries and circle these dates - SATURDAY 25th and SUNDAY 26th JULY 2009 - because that’s when the next instalment of SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS will take place in Byron Bay. It’s hard to believe that Splendour In the Grass has been successfully presenting top shelf music entertainment from around the globe for 8 years. And 2009 will be no exception with a line-up set to deliver warm rays of sunshine on a mid winter weekend.
Event organisers can also confirm that Splendour 2009 will be staged once again at BELONGIL FIELDS, which has been home for the past 8 years. Splendour hopes to be at its new home in 2010, the festival’s 10th anniversary. Tickets for Splendour In the Grass [...]

Byron Shire Council’s Youth Activity Centre major upgrade is finished and the centre is now available for creative and recreational events for young people in the Shire. Byron Shire Council’s Community Development Officer, Robyn Masters said the new improved facility will capitalise on the range of creative and recreational events for young people in the Shire.
In celebration of the upgrade, a reVamp concert will be held from 2pm to 6pm on Saturday March 21 at the Youth Activity Centre (YAC) in Gilmour Crescent, Byron Bay and will showcase the Shire’s local talent. At a cost of about $260,000, the upgrade included a new acoustic ceiling, internal access and upgrade of the disabled toilet, painting and ensuring fire safety certification.

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Wednesday, 11th March, Lismore City Hall
Tickets ($45/38) on sale now @ www.norpa.org.au or 1300 066 772
Directly from his Sydney Opera House debut, comes this ‘genre-busting tour de force’, and ‘fabulously gifted pianist, composer and bandleader’ from the musical epicentre of Cuba — Roberto Fonseca.
Born in 1975 in Havana Roberto Fonseca had a meteoric early career. At age 15 he began to perform at Havana’s international Jazz Plaza festival. In 1997 he and saxophone/clarinet player Javier Zalba founded the group Temperamento whose debut CD “En El Comienzo” was awarded “Best Jazz CD” at the Cubadisco Fair 1999. From 1999 to 2001 Roberto recorded three more albums under his own name. He also worked as a sideman pianist, hip hop producer, film [...]

Victorian Bushfire Appeal at The Beach Hotel
Featuring Curtis, Brian Cadd & SOUL’D with guest artist Lisa Hunt
2.00pm to 6.00pm Sunday 8th March

RETROSPECT GALLERIES, A Special Kind of Vision
Contemporary Indigenous art of the Northern Rivers
Retrospect Galleries in conjunction with Arts Northern Rivers are proud to invite you to the opening of A special kind of vision, an exhibition of works by 25 of the region’s premier contemporary Indigenous artists, including:
- Albert (Digby) Moran - painter, winner of the Inaugural People’s Choice Award, National Aboriginal and Islander Art Award Exhibition in Darwin in 2000;
- Karla Dickens - painter, assemblage, installation artist and mixed media artist, recipient of a $20,000 Australia Council Skills and Development grant, 2009;
- Garth Lena - sculptor and ceramicist, winner of the NSW Indigenous Parliament Prize, 2006
-Â Alison Williams - painter, sculptor and ceramicist, recipient of the $15,000 [...]