Street music at Coal Creek

THE annual South Gippsland Buskers Festival was held on Saturday at Korumburra’s Coal Creek Historical Village.
The event provided a space in the park for buskers to do their thing, and then in the afternoon compete in a busk off with $1000 first prize on offer.
There were 17 entries (37 performers) for the busker’s competition and 259 people attended the festival and enjoyed a fabulous day of entertainment.
Nathan Varga from Berwick, was awarded first place, for his solo acoustic guitar performance.
Nathan is a State finalist in a music competition, and will travel to Sydney for the finals. If he wins he will receive a scholarship to go the Germany, so part of the prize money from Coal Creek will go towards his trip.
Some of Nathan’s prize money will also go towards producing a CD and coming back to Coal Creek for the launch.
Fire twirler Jayden Mathews from Inverloch, won second prize and the South Gippsland Schools Music Program All Stars Big Band won third prize.
The people’s choice award went to young violin player Steven Witney (Mostly Mozart) and certificates of merit went to Steven Witney, the Travel Light Trio and Jackie Vanvelzen.

Buskers compete with wind: the wind wasn’t the only thing blowing at Coal Creek’s Buskers Festival on the weekend with from left, Nick Mann from Korumburra Secondary College, Ricky Gow from Wonthaggi Secondary College and Amy Garlick from Mirboo North Secondary College performing in the South Gippsland Music Program All Stars Big Band at the Buskers Festival at Coal Creek on Saturday.

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Posted by Sarah Vella on Nov 4 2014. Filed under Community. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry