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Thursday September 28th, clear your calendars, grab all that spare change that’s lying about, dig deep and prepare yourselves for a vibrant day of music making all over the city.
For our 50th birthday, we want to hit our fundraising goal of $50K (it just makes sense, right?)
Our biggest annual fundraising event will consist of all of our orchestras performing all over the CBD, connecting Sydneysiders and beyond through the power of music, whilst battling it out with peer-to-peer fundraising for the ultimate orchestra prize… the revered Messina Ice Cream Party!
We will also be livestreaming all day from our new rehearsal space at Haymarket so no matter what you are doing on September 28th, you can join us.
The Big Busk is Australia’s only public celebration of youth and orchestral music. Your donations greatly help shape the sound of the future by supporting young musicians today.
SYO receives less than 7% in Government funding which is why we rely on you, our generous donors to keep doing what we do.
These funds will be essential for us to:
Sydney Youth Orchestras acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the unceded land on which we perform today, and their connections to land, water and community.
We pay our respect to Elders past and present, the original storytellers of these lands where we learn and create music
today. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and honour their continuation of the oldest music practice in the world.
Always Was, Always Will Be.