Q&A Miriam Zolin, board chair, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, responds to some questions about the future of this much-loved festival, which has been postponed by a year until 2020 for a “total re-think”: Ausjazz: In the Wangaratta Chronicle you were quoted as saying it would have been “a huge risk” to go ahead with the festival this year. Clearly the board felt it … Continue reading THE WORD ON WANG FROM THE BOARD
BREAKING NEWS There will be no Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues in 2019. This esteemed festival will take a break before celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2020. In a media release embargoed until 10am today — Friday 1 February, 2019 — the festival board announced it had voted to postpone the festival’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The 30th festival will now be held in 2020. … Continue reading WANGARATTA FESTIVAL ON FURLOUGH
REVIEW: Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues 2015 MICHAEL Ondaatje, in his novel The Cat’s Table, paints a view of life in which “there is a story ahead of you, barely existing”. He says “only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it” so that “you find in this way the path of your life”. It is a stretch, perhaps, to compare this view … Continue reading MUSICAL COLOSSUS LEAVES AN INDELIBLE MARK
