Music festival drums up crescendo of interest

Updated November 6 2012 - 2:15am, first published June 5 2011 - 11:16am
Jazz guitarist Carl Dewhurst combines with the Keira High School band at Five Islands Brewery.Pictures: KEN ROBERTSON, SYLVIA LIBER
Jazz guitarist Carl Dewhurst combines with the Keira High School band at Five Islands Brewery.Pictures: KEN ROBERTSON, SYLVIA LIBER
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra on stage.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra on stage.
Marley Rooney, 11, John Rooney, and Sam De Santi, 14, perform.
Marley Rooney, 11, John Rooney, and Sam De Santi, 14, perform.
Lonnie Rooney, 2, plays as part of the Concord Community Band.
Lonnie Rooney, 2, plays as part of the Concord Community Band.

An all-male choir's rendition of Dancing Queen last night capped off an Illawarra Music Festival hailed as a great success by organisers.The Spooky Men's Chorale performance at Wollongong Town Hall was among the festivals highlights, which also included jazz at Five Islands Brewery, band performances at Civic Plaza and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's return to the Illawarra.Wollongong Conservatorium of Music CEO Andrew Snell said the festival's success ensured it would return "bigger and better" in two years' time.

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