Castlemaine will warm itself with plenty of hot jazz this long weekend as the town hosts its sixth annual jazz festival.
As the program fires up this evening, the festival’s Tina Helm says this year’s running of the event aims to appeal to a broader audience.
“We’re really aiming towards quite a broad audience this year, as you can see from some of the programming such as Seven Ups and Shirazz that we’re aiming at younger audiences as well,” Tina says.
“They’re really big party bands so there’s going to be some wilder times thrown in there among the more traditional jazz. Full story in today’s Castlemaine Mail…