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Wangaratta (/ ˌ w æ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ r æ t ə / WANG-gə-RAT-ə [3]) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, 236 km (147 mi) from Melbourne along the Hume Highway.The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census.
The City of Wangaratta was a local government area located about 260 kilometres (162 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 25.53 square kilometres (9.9 sq mi), and existed from 1863 until 1994.
Agbadza is an Ewe music and dance that evolved from the times of war into a very popular recreational dance. [1] It came from a very old war dance called Atrikpui and usually performed by the Ewe people of the Volta Region of Ghana, particularly during the Hogbetsotso Festival, a celebration by the Anlo Ewe people. In addition, it is also ...
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band were formed in Melbourne in 1969 as a jug band by Mic Conway on lead vocals, washboard and ukulele; his brother, Jim Conway on harmonica, kazoo and vocals; Mick Fleming on banjo, mandolin, guitar and vocals; Dave Hubbard on guitar; David Isom on guitar and vocals; Jeffrey Cheesman on guitar and vocals; Inge de Koster on violin; and John McDiarmid on tea-chest ...
The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz is an annual Australian festival of jazz and blues, founded in 1990 by the City of Wangaratta with Adrian Jackson as its first director. It is held at various venues in the town of Wangaratta , 260 kilometres (161.6 mi) north east of the state capital, Melbourne.
Aged 19 at the time, she was born in Wangaratta and lived in Glenrowan with her mother. [1] Thomas and Jane Curnow's first child, Muriel Maud Jean Curnow, was born in Benalla on 27 July 1879. Kelly gang and Glenrowan siege
The history of dance is difficult to access because dance does not often leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts that last over millennia, such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave paintings. It is not possible to identify with exact precision when dance becomes part of human culture. Dance is filled with aesthetic values ...
The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...