NON-PROFIT | 'Heart of St Kilda Concert 2009' Draws Star Studded Line-up
Contemporary Australian artists volunteer their time and talent for charity.
St Kilda’s Sacred Heart Mission has announced a star studded line-up for its ‘Heart Of St Kilda Concert’ to be held on 4 June 2009 at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre. Monies raised from ticket sales will help fund the work of the Mission for meals.
In 2008, 250,000 meals were distributed to the homeless and those living in poverty.
The event will feature some of Australia's finest contemporary performers volunteering their time and talent including Kate Ceberano, Icehouse, Mark Seymour, Mick Molloy, Tex Perkins, Tim Rogers, Ash Grunwald, Greg Fleet, Blue King Brown, Dan Sultan, Scott Wilson, Stephen Cummings, Brian Nankervis, Julia Zemiro, Tom Gleeson, Scared Weird Little Guys, Sean Choolburra and Celia Pacquola.
Joe Camilleri, Dave Huges and Corinne Grant have also just been announced as welcome participants. The concert replaces the famous annual Community Cup charity cup that ran for 14 years until 2008.
At the time St Kilda's Sacred Heart Mission said it had become so big that it could no longer cope with organising it.
Reported in Melbourne’s Age as “a ragtag fundraising football match played amid snags and dogs and rock 'n' roll”, the cup originally started as a community day and fundraiser with largely unfit, unathletic radio presenters taking on equally unfit rock musicians on the football field. Sponsored by community radio stations 3RRR and PBS, it raised $500 for the Sacred Heart Mission in front of a smattering of spectators in its first year in 1993. More than 18,000 people flocked to St Kilda's Junction Oval in 2007 with their kids, dogs and footies to watch the game, have a beer and a sausage sandwich, kick the footy and see live bands.
