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The festival was originally named Moomba by organisers in the belief it was a native word meaning 'let's get together and have fun.' Credit is usually given to Bill Onus, a unionist and member of the Australian Aborigines' League for proposing the term, which he used in a play, Aboriginal Moomba in 1951. [4]
Moomba Festival, a Labour Day festival in Melbourne, Australia Moomba, South Australia , a town Moomba (constituency) , a constituency of the National Assembly of Zambia
Jazz producer Horst Liepolt, who was booking bands for The Basement, became very active at that time and he set in motion a number of jazz venues and events, including The Manly Jazz Festival, Jazz at the Sydney Festival and his own series of jazz concerts titled "Music is an Open Sky". Horst Liepolt also set up the 44 record label (a ...
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 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... The Moomba Masters International Invitational is a water ski and wakeboard tournament occurring during the Moomba Festival ...
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.
"King of Moomba" is a song by Australian rock/pop group Do-Ré-Mi released by Virgin Records in January 1988 as the second single from the group's second album The Happiest Place in Town. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song was written by lead vocalist Deborah Conway , drummer Dorland Bray, bass guitarist Helen Carter and guitarist Stephen Philip.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; ... King of Moomba, awarded at the Moomba festival "King of Moomba" (song), a single by Do-Ré-Mi