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Summer Sounds at the Botanic Gardens

Canberra’s most popular outdoor music series commences this weekend at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Summer Sounds 2007 features five consecutive weekends of excellent local bands and musicians performing in the setting of the world’s finest collection of Australian native plants.

The series is the major fundraising activity for the Friends of the Gardens, and donations collected are used to fund new projects each year. Projects funded in recent years include the Cascades water feature beside the Visitor Centre, the fogging system and supplementary palms and tree ferns in the Rainforest Gully, classroom microscopes for the Education Centre and new electric scooters for use by Gardens’ visitors.

Saturdays, 6-7.30pm, Eucalypt Lawn
6 January	As Famous as the Moon	Smooth jazz
13 January	Annie & the Armadillos	Jazz, rhythm, blues & funk
20 January	The Business	Jazz, blues & soul
27 January	Straight Up	Jazz, funk & world music
3 February	Leisa Keen Trio	Sophisticated jazz

Sundays, 6-7.30pm, Cafe Lawn
7 January	Dry Martinis with special guests Diva	Stylish swing & soul
14 January	Malumba	Funky folk
21 January	Marji Curran Trio	Blues, roots & folk
28 January	The Cashews	Quirky, catchy folk music
4 February	Kate Meehan & Skip Landy	Blues & folk

Summer Sounds is sponsored by the Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACTEW Corporation, WIN Television, 666 ABC Canberra, ArtSound FM and St John Ambulance.

Full details of all activities at the Australian National Botanic Gardens are available on the website at www.anbg.gov.au/anbg

Media contact: Paul Ziesing
Communications Officer
(02) 6250 9405 or 0418 955 661
paul.ziesing@deh.gov.au

Updated 5 January, 2007 , webmaster, ANBG (anbg-info@anbg.gov.au)