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Brisbane Municipal Concert Band marching, 1909. The Brisbane Municipal Concert Band is a community band of amateur musicians in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Brisbane Concert Band. It was founded in 1903 and continues to operate to the present time (2014), making it Brisbane's oldest concert band. [1]
The Brisbane City Council has tried to preserve the Valley as an entertainment precinct with the introduction of Valley Special Entertainment Precinct: [1] Following consultation with residents, music venues and commercial business operators within Fortitude Valley, the Valley Special Entertainment Precinct commenced on 1 July 2006.
The venue occupies a 2 ha site within the City Botanic Gardens and has a capacity of 9,500. [1] [2] The Brisbane Festival makes regularly use of the venue. Riverstage regularly features local, national and international concerts, including large-scale music concerts, as well as family and community events. [3] Concert goers often bring a ...
Carols in the City (also known as IGA Lord Mayor's Carols in the City), is an annual free Christmas concert event held at Riverstage in Brisbane, Australia. It is currently held on the second Saturday in December. The event is broadcast on the Nine Network across Queensland.
One such concert, in which the music was by Johann Strauss, was called "Strauss Beneath the Stars", which was presented in October 1983. [citation needed] The Lord Mayor's Christmas Carols and Brisbane's Carols by Candlelight concerts were held at the Albert Park Amphitheatre before Riverstage was built in the City Botanic Gardens. [citation ...
The festival began as the Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music in 1991 with Anthony Steel as founding artistic director who also directed the 1993 festival. Nicholas Heyward was CEO in 1995 and 1997 with Jonathan Mills and Richard Mills as artistic advisors. In 1999, Claire Booth was appointed the Executive Director, the festival was renamed the ...
Brisbane City Council (BCC, also known as Council) is the local government of the City of Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. The largest local government in Australia by population and area, BCC's jurisdiction includes 26 wards and 27 elected councillors covering 1,338 km 2 (517 sq mi).
Music for Cloudland functions was provided by Brisbane musicians and Australian bands from the 1950s to the early 1980s, and for much of the 1960s it was the central venue for the Sunshine group. Sunshine was headed by Brisbane businessman Ivan Dayman (originally from Adelaide), who leased Cloudland from Apel around 1963. Dayman's ...