Palm Lake Tea Gardens residents Celebrate Australia Day in the cool Myall Coast Myall Coast by News Of The Area - Modern Media - January 31, 2025 Resident choir Villa Voce sang through several Aussie classics, along with some new works. AUSTRALIA Day was celebrated in style at the Promenade of Tea Gardens Palm Lake Resort, by close to a hundred residents. The afternoon boasted a quintessentially Australian menu of traditional roast lamb with mint jelly and gravy, roast veggies, pavlova and lamingtons. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au It was enjoyed by a room full of proud Australians, reflecting on the country in which they have worked and retired. Aptly named local bush poet Bob Bush led the entertainment with a few recitations from his books, including the stories of his tribulations with modern white goods. The Palm Lake Tea Gardens choir “Villa Voce” performed a few self-arranged brackets of dearly-loved Aussie songs and folk favourites, such as “Home Among the Gum Trees” and the theme to “Neighbours”. An original composition by John Davies titled “Uluru’” evoked the silence of the desert and its prehistoric roots, followed by a compilation of classic Aussie TV jingles, including “Little Vegemites”, “Sorbent”, “Aeroplane Jelly” and “Louie the Fly”. “Waltzing Matilda”, “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree”, and “I Still Call Australia Home” were buttressed with a rendition of “I am Australian” to finish. Emcee Maggie Nadal even crammed in the cringiest ofAussie colloquialisms: “Villa Voce has been rehearsing twice a week since the start of the year, and they always give us a ripper, fair dinkum, bonzer performance”. The afternoon was rounded out by the PLR Line Dancing group, which moved to a multi-cultural mix of songs. By Thomas O’KEEFE The choir led the room with movements during ‘Home Among the Gum Trees’. Spot the Aussie icon – the stage was covered in Australiana brought in from several homes. Local poet Bob Bush regaled with his stories of misadventures and times long forgotten. The PLR Line Dancing group showed how to stay limber.
