Carols to rock on?

IT’S been going from strength to strength for 20 years, but Carols in Belmore Park will struggle if extra funding cannot be found in the Goulburn community, organiser Peter Mylonas has warned.

At last Tuesday’s general purpose committee meeting Mr Mylonas presented to council a review of the history of Carols, as well as what it’s meant to the community over the years.


“If we didn’t do carols in the park the city would be death warmed up,” Mr Mylonas said.


“People come along every year, and by that stage they haven’t got much money, they’re stressed out of their brains, and they just want to go somewhere and sit down and feel Christmassy.


“But every year it gets harder and harder to raise the corporate dollar,” he said.


Carols has been operating on an annual budget of approximately $18,000, but Mr Mylonas said that if Carols was continue to grow, more financial support would be needed.


He praised the addition of an international act in Stan Walker at last year’s carols, and said that a successful show needed to have something for everybody.


But some councillors queried whether carols was losing its focus with headlines acts such as Stan Walker, and Andrew Banfield said he was worried it was starting to cross the line between carols and a rock concert.


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