Making gravy at Trades Hall

PAUL Kelly’s song How to Make Gravy, a fiveminute lament on loss and a missed Christmas dinner is the song of choice for Bar Choir’s Christmas fundraiser event for WRISC on Friday, 14 December at Ballarat Trades Hall.

WRISC is a not-for-profit organisation assisting women and children who are victims of family violence.

Bar Choir co-organiser Mary Card said, “The WRISC event is going to be our Christmas’s heart, we will raise money for those who need it.

“How to Make Gravy is Australia’s unofficial Christmas anthem, it’s a very touching song – a real Christmas symbol of modern Australia.

“We don’t normally reveal the song, that’s part of the charm of coming to a Bar Choir event, but for this special event we are revealing the song because people really want to sing it.”

How to Make Gravy is commonly referred to as the third part of the trilogy of Kelly’s songs, To Her Door and Love Never Runs on Time.

How to make Gravy Bar Choir on Friday, 14 December at 7.00pm at Ballarat Trades Hall, 24 Camp Street Ballarat Central. Entry $10 tickets at the door.

A percentage of the door takings and collection tins on the night will be donated to WRISC Family Violence Support.