The Blamey Street Big Band’s upcoming Beatle concert leads this week’s “Arts in the City” column by HELEN MUSA.

BLAMEY Street Big Band is preparing for a performance featuring big-band versions of classic Beatles songs. Conductor Ian McLean says the Beatles utilised a piccolo trumpet to bring “Penny Lane” to life and now Andrew Hackwill has gone a few steps further with swinging arrangements of tunes including “Eleanor Rigby”, “Lady Madonna”, “Hey Jude”, “A Hard Day’s Night” and “With a Little Help from my Friends”. Harmonie German Club, November 18.

WINHANGANHA (“Remember, know, think” in Wiradjuri) is a journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition commissioned from Wiradjuri artist Jazz Money by the National Film and Sound Archive. ACT gala premiere screening, Arc Cinema, November 15. 

MARIAN Hosking’s “Tree to Brooch” exhibition presents a collection of more than a dozen silver brooches depicting different species of leaves, nuts or flowers. Bilk Gallery, Carwoola, November 10-December 16.

CANBERRA’S Australian Rugby Choir will present an afternoon of male-voice singing under the baton of musical director Shilong Ye, in its “Time Travel” annual concert. Southern Cross Club, Woden, November 12. 

APEIRON Baroque will next feature early music alongside Australian poetry with presentations from local poets Kimberly Williams, Peter Searles, Penelope Layland and Jacqui Malins. It’s the first in a series of cross-concerts mixing early music with presentations from a wide variety of non-musical disciplines. Wesley Uniting Church, November 2.

ARTSNATIONAL Molonglo Plains has given a cash award of $1000 and another $1000 towards the hire costs of the Queanbeyan Bicentennial Hall where 35 young musicians and singers from Marie-Cecile’s Music Studio will be given the chance of a lifetime to perform in a professional venue. The B, Queanbeyan, November 12.