No matter what time of year you visit, chances are there will be an event or festival in or around Armidale.
Events not to be missed include the Autumn Festival, Big Chill Festival, The Bach Festival, The New England Garden Festival, Armidale International Film Festival and Guyra Lamb and Potato Festival. Other great annual events include New England Sings, The Armidale Cup, Guyra Trout Festival, Armidale Youth Orchestra Garden Party, Vintage Truck, Machinery and Heavy Horse Show and the NEGS Equestrian events. The calendar is full with premier sport events including the TAS Rugby Carnivals, Tour de Rocks and the 12hr Mountain Bike Enduro.
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Directions: from airport roundabout, exit to Armidale, travel down the hill and turn right into Galloway Street, take fourth right into Perrott Street (becomes Kellys Plains Road), continue 4.1km and turn left to "Kamarra"). Devonshire teas, lunches, plant and book stalls, raffle - all proceeds to Australian Garden History Society Heritage Rose Garden at Saumarez Homestead.
Lena Schmalz and Eloise ford (her student in organ) are developing the concept of an Organ Scholar at the Uniting Church. Supporting Eloise (organ) will be Nickie Murcell (recorders), Fiona McDonald (baroque flute, recorder), and Lena Schmalz (organ, piano, recorder), performing music by J S Bach, M Praetorius, J L Krebs, C A Campioni and C Franck.
Barry, Fay and Warren Gasping in the Greenhouse - A Climate Change Adventure, will be launched by Professor Nick Reid. The exhibition will be in place for just one day. Our environmental detectives, Barry, Fay and Warren, are back! After solving dieback in Dazed by Dieback they have embarked on a new adventure in which they uncover the causes of climate change and what can be done to reverse it. Gasping in the Greenhouse is a new comic book by ecologist, […]
Featuring: Cigany Weaver; Wild Thyme; Elekoustika; Strung; Tri; Jhana Allan Find yourself dancing with your heart and not your feet when you join us for a beautiful Saturday evening. With national band Cigány Weaver headlining, you will be swept away with the summer breeze in a dazzling fusion of Jazz, classical and folk music. Thriving, dynamic, and fiery, Cigány know how to weave a night you won't forget! Enchanting you with vibrant and unique tunes, some of the New England's most incredible local artists will be supporting […]
Join the Errol Russell Sinfonia as they champion some of the greatest works for strings. This vibrant chamber orchestra is made up of music teachers from the New England Conservatorium of Music, specially invited elite pre-tertiary and tertiary students and professional musicians from around the region. Working in collaboration with one of Australia’s most respected musicians Max McBride and ERS conductor Robert Jackson they will be performing: Bach Double Violin Concerto (Eliza Scott & David Tan violin); Mendelssohn Sinfonia No.10; […]
Christmas BBQ will start at 6.00pm. Please bring your own meat and a salad to share. Places and cutlery will be provided. Tea and coffee are available throughout the night. You can bring your own refreshments. There will be no supper break. For more information, phone Phil on 0466 068 722 or email philamel@live.com.au. Dance Programme - Two brackets of each dance Festival Glide; 2. Alpha Waltz; 3. Sindy Swing; 4. Carousel; 5. Mayfair Quickstep; 6. Miami Rumba' 7. Eugene […]
Great venue, great music for a catch-up with mates or just a night out.
Proceeds to the Playhouse, only 50 seats available - book 0418 249 912. International Peace Conference Documentaries Screening - An oratorio by Richard Harvey with Libretto by Ralph Steadman. Early morning, December 27 2003: over 300 excited Armidalians are getting out of their tents pitched in the Woodford Festival mud. Today is the day that 24 months of rehearsals, performances and planning come to fruition. That evening an 80-voice adult choir, 44-voice children's choir, 56-piece orchestra with didgeridoo, 24 dancers, […]
You are invited to celebrate the most beautiful time of the year at the Golf Club. Come and enjoy spectacular Christmas lights, excellent food and an unforgettable Christmas ambiance and make this and make this Christmas one to remember.
UNE is pleased to announce the resumption of Graduation ceremonies. Invitations are currently going out to graduating students who have completed their degree since December 2021. It is especially exciting to also offer additional ceremonies to our alumni who had to sadly miss out on their 2019, 2020, or 2021 graduation ceremonies.
Captain Thunderbolt's Folly - John Donohue How can it be that Frederick Ward, a master horseman and a good judge of horses, could find himself on a horse run down by a single mounted policeman and shot dead? It was indeed Captain Thunderbolt's Folly! John Donohue examines the many unusual happenings on that fateful day, 25 May 1870. What started out as a typical day of plundering for the man known as Captain thunderbolt, became very complicated, leading to an […]
Pete's Team teams up with upright bass player, Stew Maxwell, and drummer vocalist, Josh Biddle, to perform some of Pete's original songs as well as their favourites from Neil Young, Bee Gees, Creedence, Eagles, Don Williams and, as a special treat, a tribute to the Beatles on the 42nd anniversary of the death of John Lennon. Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey
UNE is pleased to announce the resumption of Graduation ceremonies. Invitations are currently going out to graduating students who have completed their degree since December 2021. It is especially exciting to also offer additional ceremonies to our alumni who had to sadly miss out on their 2019, 2020, or 2021 graduation ceremonies.
The theme will suit the season with lots of holiday fun planned for the whole family while you browse the stalls and enjoy hot food from one of our local food trucks. There will be live music, face-painting, holiday crafts for the kids, and performances inside the newly renovated High Country Theatre. Plus, drop off your lightly used or new toys so that a local family in need can have an extra special holiday this year - with donations on […]
UNE is pleased to announce the resumption of Graduation ceremonies. Invitations are currently going out to graduating students who have completed their degree since December 2021. It is especially exciting to also offer additional ceremonies to our alumni who had to sadly miss out on their 2019, 2020, or 2021 graduation ceremonies.
Great venue, great music for a catch-up with mates or just a night out.
$275,000 in prizemoney, $60,000 Armidale Cup, $35,000 Sprint, TAB 8 big races, on-course tote and local bookmakers, Canteen and full bar in operation. Turners of Armidale Fashion in the Field - $500 voucher Best Dressed Lady. Calcutta – Saturday, 10 December @ Servies Club from 6.00pm. For more information, please phone Jim on 02 6772 3102 or 0407 293 239.
Briny Sea - Swathed thick in homespun tunes; lyrically dipping, swelling, sailing afore a gusty rhythmic headwind to reckless foolhardy wood and rope adventure, the Briny Sea features Mike Croft on keys, bass and vocals; Mark Fisher on electric guitar; Matt Benham on drums; and Matt Knights on guitar and vocals. All aboard for folk-rock at its best! Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey
Great venue, great music for a catch-up with mates or just a night out.
Bring a chair or picnic rug to sit on outside, watch the Nativity Play with sing-along traditional hymns.
