GNW Nightlite - Idiot Box feat. HFG 'Koleda' - 1999
Sydneyska folklorna grupa "Koleda" plesaju i sviraju na australski zabavni program "Good News Week".
Datum emisije na kanalu 'Network Ten': 19. kolovoza 1999. (15. program).
Bez podnaslova - na žalost - ali vjerujem da imaju mnogo Hrvati, Srbi, Bosanci, Crnogorci i tako dalje tko razumiju barem malo engleski ;-)
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Time, I guess, to acknowledge my cultural heritage! Not that I've ever hidden the fact that I am of a Croatian background, it's just that I've never really made a big deal about it, but anyways...
Here we have a clip from episode #15 (19th of August 1999) of Australian quasi-game/variety show 'Good News Week Nightlite', featuring the talents of the Sydney-based Croatian folkloric ensemble, Koleda, who provided their own unique interpretation of musical themes from six different TV shows, which the "contestants" - as part of the 'Idiot Box' game - had to name.
How - you may wonder - did Koleda find themselves on national television? Quite simple really. One of the members of the group (not naming names - you know who you are ;) happen(s/ed/?) to be a friend of the show's then-sound guy, Paul Mac (who had a top-40 hit with his composition "Just The Thing" in 2001), so it was just a simple favour between friends...yet it led to an all-too rare exposure of Croatian culture on Australian mainstream media (even if they had to dance to the strains of "Ship to Shore" in order to get that exposure).
