Songs From the Heart - Northern Rivers for Refugees Fundraiser

Name: Songs From the Heart - Northern Rivers for Refugees Fundraiser
Start: 2025-09-27T05:00:00+10:00
Location: St Mary;s Anglican Church

Schedule

Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

St Mary;s Anglican Church | Ballina, NS

With a huge variety of performances and great breadth of talent, this promises to be an awesome way to spend a Saturday afternoon, while also supporting the local resettlement of refugee families.

As the audience enters the venue, Ballina duo, Chris Kirkwood and Suzy Rogiers of L’oiseau, will set a light and lyrical mood with flute duets and pieces for guitar and flute.
Chris Fisher and Marcelle Townsend-Cross of Monkey & the Fish, are excited to support local refugee resettlement, and will perform a selection of their celebrated and inspiring original tunes and some favourites with engaging lyrics and sweet harmonies. Chris is a multi-award-winning songwriter, music producer, singer, guitarist and pianist.
Mish Songsmith is also a multi-award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her songs are passionate, poetic, uplifting and inspirational…an overflowing expression of life experiences with influences from folk, jazz, blues, pop and gospel.
Mind, body and soul will be calmed under the gentle influence of Ballina’s Threshold Choir, directed by Reverend Cathy Ridd.
And just to pile variety on diversity, retired
College Director of Music, Lindy Crocker, will entertain and intrigue with handbell tunes that will ring out in the great acoustics of this venue.
Peter Lehner, whose stupendous musical talent and prodigious contributions to the community have been recognized many times over, including in the Australia Day awards, will melt your heart in a solo performance, with his mellifluous renditions of jazz standards.
Also under Peter’s baton is The Healing Voices Choir, singing a range of popular songs. This group was formed under an innovative mental health recovery initiative in Lismore.
Organisers of Songs from the Heart, Ballina’s Sea Spirit Singers will be joined by The Biggest Little Town Choir, from Mullumbimby – both choirs directed by Peter Lehner. This combined group recently opened the Mullumbimby Roots Festival, to great acclaim. You’ll know most of their songs.
TICKETS - $25 or $20
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