Melba will be back

By Kath Gannaway
LIKE its namesake, Yarra Glen’s Melba Festival is planning on a return performance, and hopefully another, and another and ….
The inaugural festival, held over the Easter long weekend around the Yarra Glen district, survived a very wet start to end up a great success.
Coordinator Marjorie Wollands said the feeling at the many events, from the Yarra Glen Art Show and hot air balloon night-glow spectacular to a Gilbert and Sullivan tribute, was exciting and positive.
There was also the opera at Henkell Vineyards, Gulf Station’s Scottish Descendants’ Day, the inaugural Dixons Creek and Steels Creek Wine Show.
“Everyone I spoke to says it must go on,” Ms Woollands said.
“It has been a lot of hard work, but I think it has been appreciated by all the local groups and by the public.
“It has been a very good, cooperative event with the Yarra Glen traders, wineries and others supporting it.
“I even had a child come up to me in Yarra Glen to thank me. She said it was the most fun she had ever had in Yarra Glen, and that was really lovely, coming from a child,” Ms Woollands said.
The Mail will have a pictorial round-up of the festival in next week’s edition.