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Events Etching of hymn-writer Wesley Events

WesleyFest 2024

St Barnabas, Anglican Church, Red Hill
28 St Barnabas Place
Red Hill

Join The Parish of Ithaca-Red Hill community and enjoy the hymns of Charles, the translations of John, and sing and hear the music of Samuel and Samuel Sebastian. Bishop Bill Ray is speaking about the life and work of John and Charles. Scott Malcolmson will take us through the history of the hymns. Free event. See more.

International International

Latest "English Hymnal" descendant christened in London

It wasn’t a thousand voices shouting to the saints, as one of the hymns in the sample booklet put it; but about 80 people gathered in St James’s, Sussex Gardens, in London recently to put a fair wind behind the latest revision of the famous green-bound hymn book whose first music editor, in 1906, was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, then only 33 years old

Local

Student-led radio station to launch at Flinders

Matthew Flinders Anglican College Secondary School students are starting a radio station and who better to teach them the ropes than one of the Sunshine Coast’s best, Old Flinderian and Hot 91.1FM Radio Host Sam Coward (Flinders Class of 1996)?