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Moomba (also known as the Moomba Festival) is held annually in Melbourne, Australia. Run by the City of Melbourne, it is Australia's largest free community festival. [1] The Melburnian tradition is celebrated over four days, incorporating the Labour Day long weekend, from Friday to the second Monday in March. Moomba is culturally important to ...
Island Vibe Festival Home Beach, North Stradbroke Island: 2006 30 October–1 November ... Summer festival Moomba: Melbourne: 1955 Murray River International Music ...
Moomba may refer to: Moomba Festival, a Labour Day festival in Melbourne, Australia; Moomba, South Australia, a town; Moomba (constituency) ...
In 2009, the 50th anniversary of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was celebrated. The Arts Centre put together a four-day commemorative program of free events. From 12 to 15 February, the festivities featured two concerts from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, including a recreation of their 1959 opening concert of the bowl and a romantic Valentine's Day program; a salute to 50 years of rock and ...
The annual Moomba festival celebrates the Yarra River's increasing cultural significance to Melbourne. The river has featured in songs by the Whirling Furphies, titled "My Brown Yarra", and the Coodabeen Champions, titled "By the Banks of the Yarra". A poem entitled "Yara Yara" was written by Greek poet Nikos Kavvadias in 1951.
Graeme Bell was an important contributor to Melbourne's 1940s traditional jazz boom and in 1947 his band, with the support of Harry Stein, was a great success when they played at the World Youth Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia, going on to tour Europe and finally basing themselves in England where they are said to have exerted a strong ...
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In March 1999, Zig and Zag stood down from the Moomba festival after they had been announced as Moomba Monarchs. It was disclosed that, in 1994, at Heidelberg Magistrates' Court , Perry had "pleaded guilty to seven counts of unlawful indecent assault against his granddaughter" Debra Clark, which had occurred "from the age of 12, between 1979 ...