Noosa Comes Together Festival musters its buskers to warm up community spirit
Noosa Comes Together Festival has harnessed a fresh wave of community spirit to help keep local disability support services financially afloat.
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As if he doesn’t have enough on his plate organising the upcoming Gympie Muster program, Noosa’s most entertaining community worker Oz Bayldon is about to bring back his homage to the long gone but much-loved Festival of The Waters.
While the Festival of the Waters sadly sank in the 1980s, Mr Bayldon has harnessed a fresh wave of community spirit to help keep local disability support services financially afloat.
A battery of buskers is now expected to firing on all musical cylinders along Gympie Terrace as part of the Noosa Come Together Festival.
The Noosa Busking Championship elimination rounds is the Saturday warm up for the Sunday’s festival showstopper at the Noosaville Lions Park featuring a ton of musical talent including the final to crown the best busker and the town’s biggest laser show.
Mr Bayldon was working at the Noosa Yacht and Rowing Club five years ago when he was inspired to help fundraise for the Sailability program which helped young people with disabilities take to the water.
“I said I’d really like to get involved in helping – they’d run out of funds so I said I’ll raise them,” he said.
“What I wanted to do was re-enact Festival of The Waters, which was our community event when we were kids.
“Noosa Come Together is an affordable day out for families – rather than the commercial festivals that Noosa has that are geared at tourists, this is geared at the community,” he said.
The festival was shelved in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic.
The 2021 comeback had a “really tight turn around” as the pandemic restrictions eased to allow controlled public gathering again.
“It’s been really tough, but we have a whole new team behind the festival now that are passionate about the cause,” he said.
“The idea is I want the community to have a day out as well as raising money for those who need it,” Mr Bayldon said.
Proceeds will go towards to Riding for the Disabled and the Disabled Surfing Association.
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