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Speaker 1: There's so much happening around the place. We're always very

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Speaker 1: dominated by politics on a Friday morning, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I love finding out what else is going on in

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Speaker 1: the community. And at the moment the Darwin Festival it is.

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Speaker 1: I think it's arguably the biggest event on the dry

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Speaker 1: season calendar. It is well and truly in full swing

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Speaker 1: and there's so much happening. It's looking absolutely beautiful at

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Speaker 1: Festival Park. Joining us in the studio right now for

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Speaker 1: the second week of the event is Darwin Festival's artistic

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Speaker 1: director Kate Fell.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Kate, good morning here againly to see you.

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Speaker 3: How's it all going. It's going so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, as you say, Festival Park is just

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Speaker 2: going off every night. Tuesday night we had a Tom

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Speaker 2: Gleason and Amy Hetherington as the two accidents, so the

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Speaker 2: park was just jam packed that night. But every night

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Speaker 2: there's you know, it's so much got these these giant

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Speaker 2: seagulls that.

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Speaker 3: Are the.

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Speaker 1: Last night I saw one of the girls, Ebony, reading

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Speaker 1: the news doing the weather on Channel Line, not like

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Speaker 1: what those big seas, So just this.

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Speaker 3: Chaos and so they've been in the park.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be at Palmerston tonight and then the

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Speaker 2: waterfront out at Stokes and Wharf on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: So just those like college chips and they actually really

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Speaker 3: do take your ships. I think some people are like

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Speaker 3: a back off, but it's really great. It looks so cool.

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Speaker 1: But I love all that stuff, like those quirky little

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Speaker 1: bits and pieces that happened that even if you're not

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Speaker 1: able to go to a show, you're still experiencing.

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Speaker 2: Everything absolutely and that just makes you feel that there's

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Speaker 2: a festival on which is really exciting.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So has there been some big sellouts over the

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Speaker 1: last week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, gosh, ye had lots of things of Tom Gleason.

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Speaker 3: Sold out ages ago.

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Speaker 2: Last night we had this awesome show Tina Tina, a

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Speaker 2: tropical love story by Ben Gratz. Awesome and so this

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Speaker 2: is caste of Dah and All Stars. It was it

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Speaker 2: was the hottest ticket in town last night. People kept

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Speaker 2: messaging me for tickets, but it was such a great night.

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Speaker 2: There's you know, Ben's growing up in darw and his

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Speaker 2: love of Tina Turner, his memories of Tina at the Ampitheater,

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Speaker 2: and so it was kind of these interpretations of all

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Speaker 2: her amazing songs.

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Speaker 3: Everyone was up dancing. It was joyful.

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Speaker 1: Ben's incredible and he does incredible stuff right around the nation.

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Speaker 1: But I love that, you know, Darwin's's home and he

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Speaker 1: always comes back and he always does great shows for

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Speaker 1: us here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: He absolutely does, and he you know, he brings people

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Speaker 2: with him and yeah, it was really really beautiful show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a real territory treasure. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me what is on this weekend. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be massive, is Nash it is?

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Speaker 2: So look how big event this weekend is our weekend

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Speaker 2: in Palmerston, which is going to be really exciting the

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Speaker 2: Friday night tonight with the markets on. We've got some

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Speaker 2: great shows, really family friendly entertainment, The teeny Tiny Stevie's

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Speaker 2: Lisa Pellagrino in a cast of thousands, things like the Seagulls.

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Speaker 2: So just come on down to Palmerston, you know, this

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Speaker 2: afternoon and then tomorrow night we have.

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Speaker 3: A ticketed show.

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Speaker 2: Merrick Watts is hosting with deal Rocjaersina Nikki Brittin and

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Speaker 2: so that's going to be a really great.

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Speaker 1: One to him a couple he said he's bringing his

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Speaker 1: wife I think this year yah, so that she could

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Speaker 1: enjoy the Northern Territory and world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's going to be really great.

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Speaker 2: And then in in Festival Park some really excellent music

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Speaker 2: Tonight is Darwin World.

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Speaker 3: Mix, which again is a cast of you.

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Speaker 2: Know, musicians from here who call Darwen home, but from

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Speaker 2: all around the world, and they're going to put on

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Speaker 2: a really great show and kayit gorgeous singers on Tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: So it's just always a great night when you go

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Speaker 2: down to the park. There's free music, you can have

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Speaker 2: some food, and then the nine o'clock show is always

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a wonderful time of the year.

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Speaker 1: What are your top picks for the weekend? Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that there's still tickets available for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would say if you're looking for

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Speaker 2: an excellent theater show tonight, tonight only a show called

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Speaker 2: fourteen at the Entertainment Center. It's a kind of coming

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Speaker 2: of age story, being fourteen in a small town. The

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Speaker 2: soundtrack is nineties pop bangers. As it's super fun, it

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Speaker 2: is also heartbreaking. I'm not you know, it's a kind

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Speaker 2: of heartbreaking story. But that is a kind of ultimately

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Speaker 2: a beautiful redemption kind of story as well.

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Speaker 3: So just if you're looking.

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Speaker 2: For a big theater show which we don't always get

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Speaker 2: to see all year round those you know, it's been

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Speaker 2: touring all around Australia.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen is my pick for tonight. How good.

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Speaker 1: And there's so much on still next week as well,

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Speaker 1: isn't that.

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Speaker 2: I know I was looking ahead next week and when

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Speaker 2: it's it's when it's the funniest.

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Speaker 3: It's like a comedy week.

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Speaker 2: We've got Anne Edmunds, Tommy Little, you know, Americ was

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Speaker 2: you know, even the party, like all those like really

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Speaker 2: fun nights out we've kind of really jammed backed them

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Speaker 2: into next week, which is really great.

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Speaker 1: People are going to be broke by the end of

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Speaker 1: the yeah, exactly. That's getting back to the economy.

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Speaker 3: This is the thing though.

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Speaker 1: It does generate so much for the Northern Territory economy

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Speaker 1: as well in terms of visitation. I know that you

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Speaker 1: do all of this kind of stuff after the events finished,

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Speaker 1: but do you feel as though there's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of people here from intero stage.

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean anecdotally, yes, you know, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of people we talk to, you know, they come up

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Speaker 2: here for a month. You know that it's a real thing,

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Speaker 2: a reason to visit. People who lived here before come back,

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Speaker 2: you know, people's you know, so we definitely are feeling

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Speaker 2: that we do capture all of that and report on

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Speaker 2: that at the end in terms of numbers. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we certainly you know, are feeling that and you know,

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Speaker 2: in a talking to all of the local businesses and

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Speaker 2: they're really getting behind it.

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Speaker 1: And it's great, Like it's something that we see in

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Speaker 1: other parts of Australia and I think that we capitalize

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Speaker 1: on it a bit in the Northern Territory. But you know,

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Speaker 1: that real event tourism, it's a wonderful thing and it

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Speaker 1: is great to have people here for an event like

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Speaker 1: the Darwin Festival.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean I'm such an advocate for you know,

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Speaker 2: cultural events throughout the year as a reason to you know,

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Speaker 2: both for people living here but also for attracting visitors.

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Speaker 3: And it really does work.

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Speaker 2: Cultural tourism works to attract people here, you know, music

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Speaker 2: or especially things that are authentically of Darwin. That's actually

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Speaker 2: what people want, you know, they want to travel to

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Speaker 2: a place like Darwai to get an experience that you

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Speaker 2: can only have here.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm all for it all the partners who

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Speaker 3: get behind these events, no absolutely wonderful will.

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Speaker 1: No doubt this weekend and next weekend is going to

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Speaker 1: be very very busy. Kate, lovely to see you as

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Speaker 1: a way, sat so much of your time this morning,