Live music in Lexton

A FREE community event filled with music, food and workshops will be held at Lexton Community Hub this October.

Pyrenees Connection is inspired by the success of Pyrenees Hideout Festival earlier this year and aims to celebrate the region’s resilience when faced with floods and bushfires, and draw attention to mental health.

Bill Chambers, Marcus Cassells, and the BAHA Collective will be performing along with The Long and Short of It, deborahN, Brendan Scott, and Sarah Catania.

There will also be guitar playing, music writing and arts and crafts workshops on offer as well as a dedicated youth stage.

“The focus of the day is activities and it’s really focused on mental health and building resilience with a number of workshops abouts arts and music and mental health,” said Loretta Aguis, event manager.

“This is a follow up from the Hideout Festival earlier this year and as part of the festival we raised funds for rural and regional mental health.”

The group received a grant for flood impacted events from the State Government which has helped them fund the festival.

Mental health services are the chosen beneficiary due to the lack of psychological support in rural areas.

“Our festival manager during COVID really felt isolated in a rural community and didn’t know where to turn,” said Ms Aguis.

“When we decided to put on a festival, he really wanted to support rural mental health services.

“There is so much of a disparity between rural mental health and mental health services in capital cities, so we really wanted to create a discussion in the community.”

The event will take place Sunday 28 October and to register for a free ticket visit pyreneeshideout.com.au/tickets.