We’re getting more than Ten Days

A BREATHTAKING performance helped kickstart Ten Days on the Island’s venture south last night, and the party won’t stop when the biennial festival wraps up tomorrow.

Highlights of the 2019 program will visit bushfire-affected communities in the Huon Valley next weekend as part of the free A Weekend in the Valley.

This weekend, though, the state’s South will host theatre, dance, music, and film, and more, with Breathtaking at St David’s Cathedral helping to kickstart proceedings last night.

Breathtaking, a concert featuring baroque virtuosos — Hana Blazikova and Bruce Dickey — supported by Tasmania’s Van Diemen’s Band, will head east today for a show at Spring Bay Mill, Triabunna, at 2pm.

Premier Will Hodgman said next week’s Weekend in the Valley would encourage visitors to stay in local accommodation, dine in cafes and restaurants and “help stimulate economic recovery”.

“The terrific program of music, dance, film and opera that Ten Days will present in Franklin, Geeveston and in sheds around Huonville will lift the spirits and bring smiles to the faces of families in the valley,” Mr Hodgman said.

Ten Days artistic director Lindy Hume said a range of performances from this year’s program would be condensed into one weekend in the Huon Valley. For more information, visit tendays.org.au/whats-on/.