Live music lifeline

The Bridge Hotel's Jeremy Furze and Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards are pictured following Monday's announcement.
The Bridge Hotel's Jeremy Furze and Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards are pictured following Monday's announcement.

Three local live music venues are among 106 venues across the state that will share in $9 million in survival grants as part of the state government’s Victorian Live Music Events program.
Bendigo West MP Maree Edwards announced on Monday that Castlemaine’s Bridge Hotel, the Castlemaine Theatre Royal and the Red Hill Hotel at Chewton were among the successful recipients in the first tranche of the program. See the Mail for the full story. 

Lisa Dennis
Editor of the Castlemaine Mail newspaper and senior journalist on our sister paper the Midland Express. Over the last 24 years Lisa been proudly reporting news in the Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges communities.