A Day on the Village Green

A day of family friendly fun at the Village Green featuring:

Performances at Rosie the Caravan Stage:
- Unite Foundation: 11am – 12pm
- Jen Hawley’s trio the Great Chefs of Europe: 12-1pm
- BaccBeat Jazz band: 1-2.30pm The Baccbeat Jazz Band was formed by members of the Bacchus Marsh Rotary Club and performs jazz classics and some pop. Band members include a female vocalist, percussionist, keyboard player, bass guitarist, and saxophonist, together bringing decades of experience in performing pop, jazz, orchestral music and musical theatre
- Winter Berries: 3-4pm
Market
Kids games.

UNITE Foundation Performances

Little angels performing Giddha

Giddha (Punjabi: ਗਿੱਧਾ ) is a popular folk dance of women in Punjab and exhibits teasing, fun and exuberance of Punjabi life. The dance is often considered derived from the ancient dance known as the ring dance and at the same time it manages to creatively display feminine grace, elegance and flexibility. Traditional dress for giddha is quite elegant. (Punjabi Salwar-Kamiz, rich in colour, cloth and design). It adds charm to feminine grace and is comfortable enough to allow women to perform giddha dance with ease. The ornaments that they wear are suggi-phul (worn on head) to pazaibs (anklets), haar-hamela, (gem-studded golden necklace) baazu-band (worn around upper-arm) and raani-haar (a long necklace made of solid gold). But these in modern era, ornaments left only to earrings, necklace, bangles and anklets. Punjabi dances are based around energy and happiness. Giddha’s form has freedom, expression, dramatic voice, facial and body dialoguing. It is a kinaesthetic and muscular activity with elements of clapping and voicing emotions. Thus, it is an act of body, mind and emotions. Clapping helps to release toxins and can be related to acupressure, as this triggers the points that effect major inner body organs. This form of movement exploration is therapeutic and has the ability to heal from a holistic perspective. Healing here is not when one goes into hospital and finds external source of therapy but from this perspective it simply means uniting the wholeness of being.

2. Junior Girls performing Bhangra

Bhangra is originally a type of folk-dance music from Punjab in India. Bhangra, folk dance and music of the Punjab (northwestern India and northeastern Pakistan) and the popular music genre that emerged from it in the mid-to-late 20th century. This Workers in the fields would sing songs to the rhythm of the dhol drum. It is based of vocal and music patterns Dhol & Tumbi, as in many world music traditions, rhythmic patterns are learnt vocally before being played on instruments. The vocal patterns are firstly sung, and then copied on the drum. The tumbi has a single string which plays riffs in Bhangra music. There is little doubt that this generation will continue to grow in popularity over the coming years and will likely become the influence of new musical styles that will continue to capture the world’s imagination. Our community is working together on this to teach our kids our traditional folk dances, so that it should grow and support them physically and psychologically.