Concert series gets cash boost

THE Marysville Cafe Concert Series has been re-funded for 2008.
The series organised by Marysville resident Mary Souness will receive $66,480 as part of the $650,000 Arts Victoria Touring Victoria Program announced last week by Minister for the Arts Lynne Kosky.
The program takes music events to 80 regional centres and remote towns across Victoria.
“Touring is a great equaliser, it helps ensure that audiences across Victoria can enjoy and access a wide variety of arts experiences on their doorstep,” Ms Kosky said.
Marysville’s Café Concert Series is a combination of four music tours run as a subscription program. The 2008 program comprises bluegrass band Coolgrass, old time band Dev’lish Mary, latin/jazz act General Store Jazz and French music combo Bric-a-Brac.
The Museum of Lillydale has also had a boost with a Federal government grant for significance assessment of their Dame Nellie Melba collection.
The museum will receive $3500 under the 2007 Community Heritage Grants program.
Recipients attend a three-day intensive preservation and collection management workshop held at the National Library, which manages the program, the National Archives of Australia, the National Museum of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.
The museum’s Dame Nellie Melba collection contains about 1000 items relating to Melba’s personal and professional life including letters, documents, programs, sheet music, photographs, recordings, objects and artwork.