The Festival brought new experiences to Sydneysiders and visitors, including Sydney’s first International Children’s Film Festival, the Qantastic Sydney Jazz Festival and the Festival of Folklife. Haymarket was transformed into an arts and crafts bazaar with art exhibits, market stalls, two theatres, a stage for concerts, craft demonstrations, workshops, audio-visual displays and food stalls. The Haymarket area had been cleared a year prior, making it the perfect location for the year’s festivities.
The Festival kicked off with a New Year’s Eve party at the Sydney Opera House and peaked at the end of the Australia Day weekend, when 40 events occurred in the CBD area, including the Grand Parade that worked its way through the city. While embarking on her music career, being so far away from her family in. Its program of more than 180 events ranged from high culture and large-scale community celebrations to sports competitions and basic craft. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic. Then you come home, and all of that activity stops. It was originally conceived by the Sydney Committee, the NSW State Government and the City of Sydney with a view to attracting people into the city centre during the holiday month of January. The first ever Sydney Festival (then called Festival of Sydney) ran from 31 December to 31 January 1977.
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