Carols By Candlelight: Win tickets through the Comeback Melbourne Great Giveaway competition
Melbourne’s beloved Christmas Eve celebration is back with a crowd and there are 20 family passes being given away through the Comeback Melbourne Great Giveaway competition.
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Melbourne is back up and running, ready for a bumper summer season of holiday events.
To kick off the fun-filled festivities, the Herald Sun will give away 20 family passes to Vision Australia’s Carols By Candlelight as a part of the Comeback Melbourne Great Giveaway competition.
The beloved Aussie event has a wonderful history of supporting children who are blind or have low vision, and this year is the 84th anniversary of the Christmas Eve celebration.
After going ahead with no live audience last year due to the pandemic, 10,000 people will attend the event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl this year – almost capacity.
The carols will be held under a Covid-safe model, meaning only fully vaccinated people can attend.
This comes as organisers of the Boxing Day Test and Australian Open work around the clock to host bigger crowds than expected, with separated and capped spectator areas to be scrapped.
Vision Australia chief executive Ron Hooton said the annual tradition was more important than ever in a year when so many families and friends have been forced apart.
“We are truly thrilled to welcome back the thousands of people who make the annual pilgrimage to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve.
“Coming together as a family is what this event is all about.
“With the pandemic causing so much disruption to the lives of so many Melburnians, it’s time to get together to not only celebrate this truly magnificent event, but also help raise valuable funds for children who are blind or have low vision and their families.”
Back for their second year together, Allison Langdon will join David Campbell to co-host the event.
Together they will welcome a star-studded line-up including Marina Prior, Denis Walter, David Hobson, Silvie Paladino, Rob Mills, Bobby Fox, Bonnie Anderson, Anthony Callea and Tim Campbell.
Vision Australia has provided support services, equipment and aid to people who are blind or have low vision for more than 150 years.
Profits from the event go directly to helping the more than 2300 families that rely on the charity’s services each year.
Readers can enter at heraldsun.com.au/competitions
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