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Speaker 1: Now a real change of pace because it's the dry season.

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Speaker 1: There is so much set to get underway this weekend.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's hard to know what you're going to

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Speaker 1: be able to get to this weekend with all the

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Speaker 1: wonderful events set to take place. But one of the

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Speaker 1: incredible events that's going to take place is the Italian Festival.

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Speaker 1: It's set to take over Darwin's waterfront Fort Hill Parklands

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Speaker 1: this Saturday, celebrating Italian food, culture and the community. It

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Speaker 1: promises to deliver mouth watering cuisine and a packed program

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Speaker 1: of entertainment and activities for the whole family. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me on the line is the Darwin Italian Festival Secretary

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Speaker 1: William Finocchiarro. Good morning to you, Will.

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Speaker 2: How are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Great? Great to have you on the show now, Will,

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Speaker 1: we're getting very close to the Italian Festival on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: What is in store? First off? When it comes to food.

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Speaker 2: Well, food wise, I mean I'll start off by saying

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Speaker 2: where the committee's been in the candle at both ends

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Speaker 2: At the moment, I've been trying to get get the

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Speaker 2: last bits and pieces together. But yeah, food wise, I

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Speaker 2: guess the usual suspects there, the pizza pasta lasagna. We've

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Speaker 2: got Italian sausages from the Italian Club. Should be a good,

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Speaker 2: good little meal there. But plenty of food offerings from

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Speaker 2: a ton of different food vendors across Darwin. So pretty

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Speaker 2: excited our bars getting I mean at the moment Peter

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Speaker 2: and I are unloading a pilot of parading into a

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Speaker 2: shed at the moment getting ready.

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Speaker 1: So multitasking, mate, multitasking, It's best.

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Speaker 2: That's it. I guess another another thing I wanted to

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Speaker 2: touch on because I haven't got a chance to plug

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Speaker 2: it at all yet this year is the Darwin Mercado.

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Speaker 2: We've got a it's new to this festa. It's it's

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Speaker 2: a stall offering an awesome range of imported Italian woods

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Speaker 2: like biscuits and confection areas and olive oils and as

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Speaker 2: well as home Whar's ceramic successories and a lot of

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Speaker 2: other things. In any case, but yeah, it'll be you

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Speaker 2: know you can purchase a bit of Italy down at

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Speaker 2: the Italian Festival.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's wonderful to hear. I think it'll be. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like there's going to be something for everybody, and

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Speaker 1: I know that there's going to be quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of sort of fun planned, I e. Is there a

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Speaker 1: spaghetti eating competition and pizza throwing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, that's usually a bit of a crowd favorite

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Speaker 2: for the srs. The entertainment goes, so, yeah, the pizza

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Speaker 2: throwing and spaghetti eating competitions back, and there's a kids

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Speaker 2: camp and an adult camp, and I think there's cash

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Speaker 2: prizes as well, so yeah, everyone should get in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds awesome. Now what can we expect when

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Speaker 1: it comes to entertainment. I know there are a number

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Speaker 1: of interstate acts. I'm assuming there might be some local

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Speaker 1: ones as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so interstate. Actually, I mean the majority of the

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Speaker 2: entertainment is inter state talent, so we've got I guess

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Speaker 2: for example, the accordion Man, he walks around the festival

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Speaker 2: playing his beautiful accordion music. Lisa Dawson. I think he's

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Speaker 2: just had a surname change, so I have to apologize

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Speaker 2: for Leafsa not having the updates. Lorenzo the Siesta Cartel.

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Speaker 2: They're a big bands that put on really good sets

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Speaker 2: of live band music. Rebecca Guilenello. If I'm getting that

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Speaker 2: last name correct there, She's performed in Italy and New York.

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Speaker 2: It looks like she's a soprano singer, so excited about her.

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Speaker 2: And of course Joe Doltcher, who's Australia's own shut Up

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Speaker 2: Your Face hit one hit there.

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Speaker 1: Well, that sounds like it'll be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Now what time is everything kicking off this year?

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Speaker 2: Ten am too late? All right? So a couple of

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Speaker 2: hours earlier this year?

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Speaker 1: Awesome? And are there any changes or any new additions

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Speaker 1: or anything that we should be aware of for this

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Speaker 1: time round?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got the monuments are back, so the I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Rialto Bridge was around last time, but we've got

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Speaker 2: the Chevy Fountain and the Leaning Tower of Pisa back

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Speaker 2: and they're built by the Darwin Attaian community. On you

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Speaker 2: He's coming back and putting those up for us this year.

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Speaker 2: So we're pretty excited to get the monuments back on

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Speaker 2: on festifl Grounds.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff or will it sounds like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be an awesome, an awesome day, so much to see

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Speaker 1: and do and plenty of food to eat and lots

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Speaker 1: to drink as well. A fantastic day for everybody. So

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Speaker 1: you can just rock up. You can purchase your ticket

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Speaker 1: to get in there. Once you arrive, can't you.

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Speaker 2: Well, no ticket, non ticketed event, even better.

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Speaker 1: Mate, even better for the whole community to get on

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Speaker 1: down there and enjoy what is all. You know, all

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Speaker 1: that is wonderful about the Italian community, and you know,

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Speaker 1: to get in there and eat as much as you can.

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Speaker 2: Really exactly see.

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Speaker 1: It's a way I like to do things well with

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Speaker 1: an Italian honor and and well my mother in law

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Speaker 1: being Italian, I can Italian now she will expect me

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Speaker 1: to eat as much as I can.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. I think my non nor himself he

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Speaker 2: judged character based on how much people are.

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Speaker 1: Very true. I think that sounds like every Italian family will.

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Speaker 1: I love it, mate. Good to catch up with you

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Speaker 1: this morning, all the beasts for the weekend, and keep

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Speaker 1: that multitasking going. I'll let you get back to your

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Speaker 1: other job.

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Speaker 2: Thanksatie, good on you, Thank you,