Time: 5:00pm
Location:
Australia Day Event - "Celebrate Australia!"
CONCERT PROGRAM - 26 JANUARY 2010
Fun for Everyone from 5 pm
Nick Jr.'s Lah-Lah's Big Live Band
Concert Commenced 6 pm
Australian National Anthem
The Rum Corps Orchestra conducted by Brett Weymark
Governor Macquarie Bicentenary Interview
Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC CVO, Governor of NSW
Sing-a-Long Australian Folk Medley
(Botany Bay, Click Go the Shears, Road to Gundagai)
The Rouseabouts
Six Ribbons
Soloist Jon English
The Ant Explorer (C.J.Dennis)
Soloist Sheridan Harbridge
The Australian Sunrise (James Lister Cuthbertson)
Soloist Yvonne Kenny
Clancy of the Overflow (A.B. “Banjo” Paterson)
Soloist Gavin Lockley
Sing-a-Long Waltzing Matilda (A.B. “Banjo” Paterson)
The Rouseabouts
The Symphony of Australia from 7 pm
Rum Corps Orchestra and Choir conducted by Brett Weymark
Soloists Yvonne Kenny and Gavin Lockley
Narrator William McInnes
First movement - “Dreamtime”
The visions, beliefs and stories of Australia‟s first people
Second movement - “The Ships”
The arrival of The First Fleet and the early days of settlement
Third movement - “Red Centre”
Exploration of our continent and the story of Burke and Wills
Fourth movement - “Pie Jesu”
A lament for all Australians whose lives have been sacrificed in wars
Fifth movement - “Immigration Scherzo”
A celebration of Australia‟s unique multicultural identity
Sixth movement - “My Country Australia”
A rousing anthem based on Dorothea Mackellar‟s verse.
Finale
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