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A BALLARAT band is celebrating more than one hundred years of music with a performance this month.<\/p>\n

The Ballarat Memorial Concert Band is one of Ballarat\u2019s oldest musical groups and will be recognising the achievement with a cabaret night featuring music from the 1920s until today on Saturday, 13 May.<\/p>\n

The group was formed in 1920 to give soldiers who returned from war something to get involved in and is now an open all ages band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a community band and being able to meet and enjoy playing together again is now a privilege and joy,\u201d said president Vince McDonald.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis concert is meant to be fun, it\u2019s not a traditional sit-down concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebrations were delayed following the COVID pandemic, but Mr McDonald said he is looking forward to the event which is also a fundraiser for the group as it receives no ongoing money from government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our first major concert of our own since COVID where we are able to present our own work in our own way and that\u2019s very exciting for us,\u201d said Mr McDonald.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic is a very different thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of other arts are representative of real-world things whereas music is its own thing and all cultures in time have been known to express themselves with music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr McDonald said he hopes the band will still be playing music in another 100 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the desires of people will still be there, so I strongly suspect we\u2019ll be playing different versions of our instruments, but I hope the same opportunities to local community members are still made available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The band performs regularly in Ballarat at events like the Begonia and Ballarat Heritage festivals with members ranging from 12 to those in their senior years.<\/p>\n

The concert will be held at the Ballarat Specialist School farm campus at 7pm and for tickets visit trybooking.com\/CGYFS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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