The Goldfields Jazz Orchestra is getting set to dispense some big sound at next weekend’s Castlemaine Jazz Festival.
More than a year on from when Castlemaine Secondary College music teachers Kirsten Boerema and Michael Timcke had a brainwave to form the region’s own jazz orchestra, the big 18-piece outfit has become an invaluable creative outlet for jazz musos who live and work everywhere from Bendigo to Ballarat.
Right now they’re in full swing rehearsing to perform at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal as part of next weekend’s festival line up. Full story in today’s Castlemaine Mail …