Tickets are selling fast! Come join a fun-filled night of community celebration – This Saturday (tomorrow) The Echo is set to mark its 40th year in style with a ’30s swing-era style party and community awards night featuring the dynamic sounds of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
The Shire’s quinquennial night of nights is back! This Saturday, 6 June, will see Club Byron, at the Byron Bowlo, transformed into a den of revelry as it hosts The Echo’s 40th birthday celebrations and community awards. It is a night of dance and cabaret with the Melbourne Ska Orchestra and Wild Women Burlesque as well as a chance for The Echo to recognise the many amazing members of our community who make it the special place it is to live, dream, party, and change the world.
Springing from the ‘wave of patchwork colour, an unwashed wave, a laughing wave, a wave of love and confusion, a very hairy wave and very often a stark naked wave’ that was the alternative culture that washed across the region in the 1970s, as Echo founder Nicholas Shand described it. The Echo continues to have a strong voice for the community.
So come and join us, not naked but dressed to the nines this time, and let’s celebrate the community we are, and where we are headed on the magical tour of existence.
As co-founder David Lovejoy said, ‘Change is the constant of all histories. Some changes may be vast and irresistible, but others are subject to our choices, to what we consider important. It is within our collective will to ensure that the landscape of Byron Shire remains healthy and harmonious.’
Tickets are selling fast so head to https://events.humanitix.com/the-echo-s-40th-anniversary-and-awards-celebration to get yours.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
