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2010

The festival is nearly here again! Great rides, bands, roving entertainers, activities for all ages, markets and our AMAZING FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR are all in store for you and your family over the weekend of the 13th & 14th November.

Don't forget that we have the Saturday Night Fireworks as usual, so keep your animals safe and look after your babies' hearing if they are going to attend - these fireworks are loud and beautiful!

SATURDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

12.00pm Eltham High Jazz Band

12.35pm Official Opening
Nillumbik Mayor & Rotary Eltham President

12.45pm Eltham College Sidewinder Band

1.30pm Eltham College Backbeat Band

2.00pm Donna Williams & The Aspinauts
Baloomba-wop is an hour long interactive adventure for kids and kids at heart. It will appeal to fans of Dr Seuss, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl.

3.00pm Dora the Explorer Meet and Greet

3.30pm Maisey, Elmer and Characters

4.00pm Dora the Explorer Meet and Greet

4.35pm Hurstbridge Learning Co-op Band

5.00pm Dora the Explorer Meet and Greet

5.30pm All characters

 

SUNDAY 14THNOVEMBER

Main Stage;

10.30 to 12.30 Eltham Concert Band

12.30 to 2.00 Care Factor Zero

2.00 to  3.30 Braydon and Ony' Bluegrass

3.30 to 5.00  Greg Champion

Youth Stage from 10.00 until 4.00. the following bands will be appearing;

SouthernSoho

Mixed Alliance

Dead September

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Supported by;

Laura Annettis

Luke Hocking

 

Community Stage;

10.00 to 11.00 Salvation Army Band

11.00 to 12.00 Pet Parade

12.00 to 1.00  Johnny Young Talent School

1.00 to 2.30 Strathewen Primary and the Hurstbridge Learning Co-op
Primary School Chilren's Band

2.30 to 3.30 Plenty Valley Montessori School Flute Ensemble and Recorder Consort 

 

 

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Our vision for the 2009 Rotary Eltham Town Festival is to create an engaging and interactive youth area within the Rotary Eltham Town Festival that showcases live musical entertainment by local youth bands and groups, specialist performances suitable for all ages, sale of merchandise to promote an enjoyable environment and the provision of a complementary attraction or ride.

Come down to Alistair Knox park Main Road Eltham on Sunday, November 8, 2009 and support local music and enjoy the fun of this years youth stage. If your not into music there will be plenty of other attractions including free rides, Market Stalls, other entertainment and much more.

 

   The Major Sponsor for the Rotaract Youth Stage 2009

Acts this year on the Youth Stage include 

Snakebusters,

The Snakebuster, Raymond Hoser with 14 deadly snakes (9 Tiger, 3 Black, 1 Brown & 1 Copperhead) No one else in Australia handles snakes like this

Nothing pulls a crowd like a snake and reptile show! And no snake show pulls a crowd like Raymond Hoser and the Snakebusters team. We are the only people with the five deadliest snakes on earth: namely, Taipan, Fierce, Tiger, Brown and Death Adder, plus the local deadlies, as well as giant pythons, crocodiles and other reptiles that the public get to handle. We are the best, most experienced handlers in the business. Remember we wrote and published the book “Australian Reptiles and Frogs” way back in 1989, which is still everyone else’s “Bible” on snakes, etc ... and not only that, Snakebusters are the best entertainers. Snakebusters are known as “full-on hands on”. We allow lots of people to hold lots of reptiles at the same time.  No one else comes close! 

 

Southern Soho

We're gonna rock the s**t outta you

Southern Soho first fused electric rock music on the 17th day of April in the year 2009. It was with great spirit and fervor that Linz, Macca and Jez instantaneously injected the surrounding external soundwaves with a myriad of melodies and lyrics. After a month and a half of writing, the band loaded up their drums and guitars in the back of a Toyota Corolla named 'Juno' and a Honda Accord called 'Monica', and headed for the studio to record a rockingly delectable self-titled EP...

Nick Nickolas,

 "One of the best Cups and Balls routines in the World Today" Magic Week U.K.An International Award Winning Magic Comedian

Nick Nickolas is an English born, Australian based, Magician/Comedian/Variety Performer who has performed to all classes of society worldwide for over 20 years. His extraordinary talents have found him headlining at comedy clubs, rock concerts and festivals. Nick Nickolas can also be found spreading laughter during elegant corporate events across the globe. Available as an MC, support act or as a feature comedian/magician.

Nick Nickolas will help make any event a memorable one.

Sessi Sessi,

Drawing on both traditional and contemporary rhythms from West Africa, Sessi Sessi are a crew of up-and-coming student performers who bring rhythm and funk to any gathering. Specialising in community festivals, markets and the like, Sessi Sessi will enliven and uplift with their interactive performances, and have audiences everywhere drumming and dancing along.

 

The Statics,

‘Songs We Wish We Wrote’ comes out October 2009 on Psycho Janitor Records.

Forming in 2008, the Statics wasted no time getting things started - writing, recording and releasing a debut album by mid 2008 (CandyPants Records), which was then followed by hundreds of hours in a 12 seater van playing every pub, club, radio station, school, dive, all ages festival and house party possible. 

“We didn’t want to play it safe. We didn’t just wanna be another ‘myspace’ or ‘weekend’ band. We figured f@%k it! Lets record an album, get in the van and sell some discs and if we’re lucky a t-shirt or two!” bassist Pat McKenna explains.

With no management or booking agent, building a fan base is near impossible in Melbourne but this only fuels the bands motivation further. “We handed out close to five thousand CDs last year out the front of our gigs and other bands gigs. Basically, anything to get people aware of the band and hopefully enjoying our songs as much as we do.” 

Rudely Interrupted

Constance - the human metronnome, Josh - drums, Marcus - synths, Rory - vocals and guitars, Rohan - backing vocals and guitar, Sam - bassAnother sepcial band called Rudely Interrupted one of Australias truly unique indie rock acts. 5 out of the 6 members share a range of both physical and intellectual disabilities (Blindness, Deafness, Aspergers, Autism and Down Syndrome) but most importantly, a common interest in self expression through music. Their achievements, both personal and professional to date are extraordinary.

 

And not to mention Andrew Dyson Freestanding Ladder Juggling Featuring his 'Guinness World Records' trick, this is a high energy, highly skilled combination of balance, juggling and manipulation.

 

 

 

 

And Many More acts to be announced. Stay tuned!

 

 

 

There will also be a free ride from Action events, the Circotron and free temp tattoo art by Ria Clauss from Rainbow Creations Body Art.

Enjoy the thrill of the Circotron as you experience the driving force that spins you around and around creating lots of fun and excitement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Rotaract Club of Diamond Valley will have a stall at the Eltham Festival next to the Rotary Tent and one also near the Youth Stage. Our club will be selling Life Straws and shoe laces on behalf of Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation.

In partnership with the Rotaract club of Whitehorse, our club is raising funds for the purchase of LifeStraws. By selling a $3 colourful reusable straw we can purchase a LifeStraw for a needy individual. A LifeStraw provides the user with access to safe and clean drinking water; it is a portable water filter that removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria and 98% of waterborne viruses turning a dirty puddle into a viable water source. Around 6,000 children die from waterborne disease each day caused by consuming unsafe water. Our club strongly believes in the value of LifeStraws to the worlds disadvantage and the Rotary Eltham Town Festival a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of safe drinking water 

Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, Currently 1 in 5 people on the transplant list may never get the chance to live to see their next birthday. Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation aims to get more people signing up as organ donors and more families discussing with their parents and children what it means to be an organ donor and why this decision is an important one to make especially when it comes to ensuring that a person’s wishes as an organ donor are respected and not reversed should a decision need to be made. Of the 218 000 people who died in 2004, only 218 were donors.