The Snowy Valleys come alive to the sound of music and traditions, old and new, bring a community together and heal the wounds of the past.

Heather Ewart travels to Leonora in the goldfields of WA. 800km north-east of Perth, its home to Australia's richest road mile running race and where heptathlete-turned-bobsleigh Winter Olympian Kiara Reddingius was raised.