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Subscriber only Mackay residents are spoiled for choice this May Day long weekend with a social calendar chock-full of events. When: 7.30pm, Sunday May 2 Where: Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre, Alfred Street, Mackay What s happening: Renowned Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated artist Toni Childs will perform in Mackay to support the Daily Mercury s Hub for our Heroes campaign. Toni Childs will appear at Tanks Art Centre. Picture: supplied. Inspired by her father and her own mental health struggles, Toni Childs backs PTSD Frontline s mission alongside Sir Peter Cosgrove and Australia s oldest surviving Victoria Cross recipient Keith Payne to develop a first responders and veterans treatment centre at Kinchant Dam.