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New co-convener at Music for Canberra Melinda Hole. HOT upon news that Helen Roben was leaving the National Folk Festival to join Music for Canberra as its new CEO, it has since been announced that conducting whizkid Melinda Hole will join the organisation as second artistic convenor. Hole will complement the existing convenor, Rachel Gould, who has been the sole convener since the previous appointee, Dr Nicole Hammill, left in November 2020 after a few weeks in the job, citing “personal reasons”. Hole holds a bachelor of music studies, a graduate diploma in music education, a master of arts majoring in conducting from the Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg Austria, and is now completing a doctorate of musical arts at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. ....
Helen Roben recently at “Good Folk” Queanbeyan. Photo: Martin Ollmann. JUST two weeks after the apparently successful “Good Folk” festival in Queanbeyan over Easter, and two months after the National Folk Festival announced Katie Noonan as its incoming artistic director, the general manager of the festival since 2019, Helen Roben, is moving on. Roben has been appointed CEO of Music for Canberra, the not-for-profit music school supported by ArtsACT and the Snow Foundation, which also acts as the umbrella for, among others, Canberra Youth Orchestra and the James McCusker Orchestra. Folk Festival board chair, Stephen Gallacher, said Roben had capably steered the festival through extremely difficult times and paid tribute to her skills. ....
Photo: Martin Ollman. WHEN managing director of the National Folk Festival, Helen Roben, catches up to brief the incoming director, Katie Noonan, she’ll have good news to report. For “Good Folk”, the two-day concert series or “folk experience” held in Queanbeyan over Easter, achieved the joint purposes of entertaining a lot of people and signalling that the National Folk Festival is alive, well and not going away any time soon. To be sure, there were a few grumbles from purists missing the experience at Exhibition Park in what was a scaled down event of 22 concerts, who asked why it couldn’t have been held in Canberra. ....
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