Jan Preston at Amulet Vineyard Australia’s “Queen of the boogie woogie piano”
Let’s set the scene....
With a glass of wine in one hand you will be seated amongst future wines from Amulet Vineyard in their beautiful surroundings as Jan Preston entertains you with her humour, stories and most importantly, her wonderful music.
Public demand sees Jan Preston return to Beechworth again this year. Charming, entertaining, honest, skilful and unique, Jan has it all.
Called “the Queen of Boogie Piano”, Jan’s rolling left hand piano boogie gets audiences moving, takes them away from their daily stresses, and from Europe to NZ to Australia leaves them uplifted. Did we mention Jan is a great singer as well?! Don’t miss her show.
Monday November 2nd
A cocktail party with Jan Preston
From 4.30pm to 7.00pm
Amulet Vineyard
1036 Wangaratta Road Beechworth
Enjoy picturesque views, great music & cocktail food with Jan during intermission Full bar available
Bookings essential for catering 03 57270420
$22 per person
(early bird payment by Tuesday 28th October $19 per person)
Saturday 17 October 2009
New tour to celebrate Beechworth’s botanical treasures
For those who like a dash of history mixed with their horticulture a new tour launching this weekend will offer a perfect introduction to the botanical treasures of one of Australia’s best preserved heritage towns.
The new Beechworth Town and Country Walks and Tours will take in some of Beechworth’s most significant public and private gardens and reserves, offering visitors fascinating insights into the people who created them, original designs and plantings – including some 14 trees of significance listed on the National Tree Register - and the gardens’ continuing evolution to the present day.
The new tours will complement the Historic & Cultural Precinct’s Ned Kelly and Gold walking tours led by expert guides which have become a must for tourists to the area. Visitors can also take part in Historic Courthouse tours and talks, the wildly popular Ghost Tours of historic Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum and Historic Beechworth mini-bus tours led by historian, Pat Doyle.
Chris Dormer, a passionate gardener, artist and former Beechworth Burke Museum programs officer is the brains behind the new Town & Country Walks and Tours. Her own piece of paradise, in the hilltop village of Stanley a few kilometres from Beechworth, has featured in the Victorian Open Garden Scheme.
Each Saturday at 2pm, departing from the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre, she will take visitors on an hour-long Public Gardens Walk, including the formal ‘pleasure gardens’ of the Town Hall, part of the Historic & Cultural Precinct, planned and planted in 1874 by Richard Hurlock Jenkyns.
Developed in the Gardenesque style, the gardens quickly became a fashionable place for locals and visitors to use the wide paths for promenading, a band rotunda for concerts, and the fountain to enjoy the sounds of the cool cascading water on hot summer nights. The gardens were planted with trees including the towering Sierra Redwoods (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) seen today which were grown by Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller, Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
The tour also takes in the cultivated wilderness of the Botanical Reserve, now Victoria Park, gazetted in 1856. A competition to design the park was won by a Hungarian Count, J A Rochlitz, whose romantic vision of groves of acacia, almond and walnut trees, an open belvedere, an archery ground, cricket and boxing grounds, a children’s playground and an ‘Invalid’s’ Corner’ was never implemented. The design does live on, however, in a beautiful watercolour painted by C. Martin, part of the permanent collection of the Burke Museum.
Lake Sambell Reserve, created as a result of Beechworth’s success in the Ideal Town competition in 1928, and now home to the new Chinese Gardens, is also on the itinerary. This exciting new garden remembers the thousands of Chinese people who flocked to the rich goldfields of early Beechworth.
A variety of tours will also be offered by Chris Dormer by arrangement including visits to a selection of magnificent privately owned gardens as well as a ‘Backyard to Farm Gate’ tour of Beechworth and district’s great productive gardens.
FULL DETAILS AND BOOKINGS FOR THIS AND OTHER GREAT
BEECHWORTH TOURS AT: www.beechworthonline.com.au
PHONE 1300 366 321
The new Beechworth Town and Country Walks and Tours will take in some of Beechworth’s most significant public and private gardens and reserves, offering visitors fascinating insights into the people who created them, original designs and plantings – including some 14 trees of significance listed on the National Tree Register - and the gardens’ continuing evolution to the present day.
The new tours will complement the Historic & Cultural Precinct’s Ned Kelly and Gold walking tours led by expert guides which have become a must for tourists to the area. Visitors can also take part in Historic Courthouse tours and talks, the wildly popular Ghost Tours of historic Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum and Historic Beechworth mini-bus tours led by historian, Pat Doyle.
Chris Dormer, a passionate gardener, artist and former Beechworth Burke Museum programs officer is the brains behind the new Town & Country Walks and Tours. Her own piece of paradise, in the hilltop village of Stanley a few kilometres from Beechworth, has featured in the Victorian Open Garden Scheme.
Each Saturday at 2pm, departing from the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre, she will take visitors on an hour-long Public Gardens Walk, including the formal ‘pleasure gardens’ of the Town Hall, part of the Historic & Cultural Precinct, planned and planted in 1874 by Richard Hurlock Jenkyns.
Developed in the Gardenesque style, the gardens quickly became a fashionable place for locals and visitors to use the wide paths for promenading, a band rotunda for concerts, and the fountain to enjoy the sounds of the cool cascading water on hot summer nights. The gardens were planted with trees including the towering Sierra Redwoods (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) seen today which were grown by Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller, Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.
The tour also takes in the cultivated wilderness of the Botanical Reserve, now Victoria Park, gazetted in 1856. A competition to design the park was won by a Hungarian Count, J A Rochlitz, whose romantic vision of groves of acacia, almond and walnut trees, an open belvedere, an archery ground, cricket and boxing grounds, a children’s playground and an ‘Invalid’s’ Corner’ was never implemented. The design does live on, however, in a beautiful watercolour painted by C. Martin, part of the permanent collection of the Burke Museum.
Lake Sambell Reserve, created as a result of Beechworth’s success in the Ideal Town competition in 1928, and now home to the new Chinese Gardens, is also on the itinerary. This exciting new garden remembers the thousands of Chinese people who flocked to the rich goldfields of early Beechworth.
A variety of tours will also be offered by Chris Dormer by arrangement including visits to a selection of magnificent privately owned gardens as well as a ‘Backyard to Farm Gate’ tour of Beechworth and district’s great productive gardens.
FULL DETAILS AND BOOKINGS FOR THIS AND OTHER GREAT
BEECHWORTH TOURS AT: www.beechworthonline.com.au
PHONE 1300 366 321
It’s all happening for the Beechworth Chinese Cultural Centre & Gardens Inc
We are happy to say that yes the items are finally being shipped out this month
* Two Bridges for the Garden
* It's not a Chinese Garden without Buddah
* 5 Lanterns set to go in Bamboo walk in Chinese Gardens Beechworth by the Pavilion
This month the Museum has been opened for 5 yrs (and boy what a road)
With having put on six festivals with the first only one week after the 2003 bush fires with the help of the Lake Sambell Committee.
Awards that we have received awards for:
* Tidy Town 2001 .2002 .2003
* Sustainability award sub surface irrigation system
* Victorian awards for excellence in Multicultural affairs
* Victorian History award Commendation BCCC&G
* Personal award for 10 years service for volunteering in Multi Cultural affairs
The Gardens has seen many Chinese visitors to Beechworth we have also
* sponsored the Chinese Lion team to come to Beechworth for Easter for the past three years
* Sponsored the Beechworth Chinese cemetery book written and translated by Dr Kok
* The BCCC has seen many school groups over the past 5 years who have all enjoy the different aspect of Beechworth and enjoy finding out what animal sign they are.
Beechworth’s Chinese Museum is dedicated to the preservation & display of Chinese History in the Ovens and District Goldfields
The Centre also has items for sale that are that little bit different to help support both the Gardens and the Museum
* Two Bridges for the Garden
* It's not a Chinese Garden without Buddah
* 5 Lanterns set to go in Bamboo walk in Chinese Gardens Beechworth by the Pavilion
This month the Museum has been opened for 5 yrs (and boy what a road)
With having put on six festivals with the first only one week after the 2003 bush fires with the help of the Lake Sambell Committee.
Awards that we have received awards for:
* Tidy Town 2001 .2002 .2003
* Sustainability award sub surface irrigation system
* Victorian awards for excellence in Multicultural affairs
* Victorian History award Commendation BCCC&G
* Personal award for 10 years service for volunteering in Multi Cultural affairs
The Gardens has seen many Chinese visitors to Beechworth we have also
* sponsored the Chinese Lion team to come to Beechworth for Easter for the past three years
* Sponsored the Beechworth Chinese cemetery book written and translated by Dr Kok
* The BCCC has seen many school groups over the past 5 years who have all enjoy the different aspect of Beechworth and enjoy finding out what animal sign they are.
Beechworth’s Chinese Museum is dedicated to the preservation & display of Chinese History in the Ovens and District Goldfields
The Centre also has items for sale that are that little bit different to help support both the Gardens and the Museum
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