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Hastings Secondary College’s musical ‘Marooned Hearts’ wows audiences

The finale, ‘Sunday Morning’, with leads and chorus. Photo: Pauline Cain. Kiarra Torres and Olivia Clark. Photo: Supplied. SCHOOL musicals have the potential to pull their community together and Hastings Secondary College’s ‘Marooned Hearts’ certainly did that. The musical was staged last week at the Port Macquarie Campus with three matinees and three evening performances. […]

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An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein comes to The Glasshouse Port Macquarie

SYDNEY Musical and Opera Society is bringing its concert production, ‘An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein’, to The Glasshouse Port Macquarie for one performance only on Sunday, 13 September at 2pm. The performance will feature a live orchestra of more than 20 musicians, a cast of 16, a choir, and immersive projections. Sydney Musical and […]

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The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins’ Mass for Peace to be performed in Port Macquarie on Sunday 9 August

EIGHTY choristers and a small orchestra will gather this weekend in Port Macquarie to rehearse and perform Karl Jenkins’ work ‘The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.’ The concert will take place in St Agnes’ Catholic Church at 2pm on Sunday 9 August. Led by local musician Robyn Ryan, OAM, the work is a stirring […]

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St Agnes’ Parish Secondary School bands entertained lunchtime crowds at The Glasshouse in Port Macquarie

Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. Lunchtime music concert with SAPSS student musicians. Photos: Pauline Cain. LUNCHTIME crowds in Port Macquarie stopped to listen to school bands on The Glasshouse steps on Friday 26 June. St Agnes’ Parish Secondary Schools (SAPSS) […]

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Community choirs were part of the entertainment at Port Macquarie’s ArtWalk

“Here Comes the Sun” launches ArtWalk with a mass community choir gathered for The Big Sing. Photo: Pauline Cain Blokes Notes entertaining crowds on the corner of Clarence and Murray Streets. Photo: Pauline Cain ARTWALK started with a blast of sound in a flash sing from local choirs. More than 100 singers […]

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Port Macquarie celebrates 10 years of ArtWalk

Cherie and Scott Raynor from Sunset Gallery with their projections on Murray Street Got Ya Back’s ‘Piano Party’ under the fig tree on Town Green Tortuga’s Phoebe Ayla and her fire show on Clarence Street Stage. Tortuga’s Joel Salom entertaining crowds with his comedy and juggling act on Clarence Street Stage. Rusty Muscle Collective performing […]

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Crowds enjoyed Recharge Sunday at Roto House in Port Macquarie

Anne de Nooijer (left) and Brad Collins (right) chatting about art with Port Macquarie locals Robyn Cornale and Debbie Sommers. The Bootleggers playing Blues on the verandah Hastings Art Trail exhibition – Anne de Nooijer and Brad Collins Hastings Art Trail exhibition – Anne de Nooijer and Brad Collins Crowds enjoying a sunny Sunday morning […]

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Expect a Vivid experience during ArtWalk in Port Macquarie, 5-6 June

Brad Eastman (Beastman) at his mural Memory Structures. Photo: Vivien Mitchell. Artist Renee Davies adds a colourful touch to the Barracks Lane mural. Photo: Chan Ansell. A FLASH mob of around 100 singers will converge on a Port Macquarie carpark on Friday 5 June to help kick off this year’s ArtWalk. Singers from 10 community […]

Entertainment, Film

Documentary features Port Macquarie dancer Conor Bann-Murray

YOUNG dancers in Port Macquarie dreaming of a career on the global stage are being reminded that no matter where you live, it is possible to make it. Local talent Conor Bann-Murray is currently appearing in the feature documentary Dance For Your Life, which hit cinemas nationwide on Thursday 2 April. The film follows 10 […]

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Port debut for Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra

“FIRST Light” refers to music illuminated by the sunrise and it is about to be performed in Port Macquarie by principal musicians of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. They are part of a larger orchestra of 40 to 50 Australian musicians, with occasional guest performers from Europe. The orchestra was formed in 2013 and […]