The Opening Event of the 2013 Castlemaine State Festival brings together an abundance of music maestro’s, stars of song, and clusters of choirs in a restaurant setting that overflows with musical offerings. Lyttleton street becomes an outdoor setting of plenty where festival goers are seated centre stage and served a profusion of performance appetisers that spill and flow from the surrounds of the street’s extraordinary buildings.
A singing Maitre D’, her offsiders and staff, a restaurant band, a choir of hundreds, and a public over a thousand, with a menu du jour of Castlemaine’s minstrels and stars, opera singers and street crooners, chorists and choirs and one of the hottest dishes ever to grace the verandah of Castlemaine’s iconic Imperial Hotel.
Cornucopia in song – it’s more than a mouthful of sing-a-long, it’s a feeding of the spirit.
Concept and Direction: Jude Anderson/Punctum
With: Penny Larkins, Carl Pannuzzo, Aurora Kurth, Casey Bennetto, Mal Webb, Alana Hunt, Sofia Chapman, Al MacInnes, Brodie and Daniel Rogers, Ben Gibbons and James Cox
Plus: members of the Chatwarblers, Acafellas, Castlemaine Singers, Castlemaine College Choir, Steiner School Choir, Maine Choir, 37 Degrees South, The Deborah Triangles, Mary Thorpe, Cyril Wong and Scott Sanders
