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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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NECOM – Heritage Homestead Series

Ohio Homestead Ohio Homestead, WALCHA, NSW, Australia

Sold Out Cost of ticket includes refreshments. The 1840’s Ohio Homestead outside Walcha will host the final concert in the series, blending music of the High Baroque with readings from Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad. Enjoy Twain’s inimitable style as he takes us on a Grand Tour of the cultural capitals of Europe with Sarah Adeney (voice), Leanne Roobol (voice), Robert Jackson (cello) and Sheila Guymer (piano) with narrator Gareth Rickards. Built in the early 1840s by Scottish farmer, Abraham […]

$75

ADFAS: Wagner’s “Ring”, Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and Peter Jackson’s Film

Michael Hoskins Creative Arts Centre The Armidale School, 87 Douglas Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

For many years, fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s book Lord of the Rings swept aside any suggestion that it was based on Richard Wagner’s four-opera Ring cycle.  Tolkien himself scoffed at the idea.  Yet, in the wake of Peter Jackson’s blockbuster film trilogy, more and more people saw Lord of the Rings as a profoundly Wagnerian blend of epic myth and powerful music.  This talk, incorporating video clips and recorded excerpts, will explore the fascinating links that connect Richard Wagner, the […]

$5 – $25

Jazz, Blues & Alt. Grooves @ the Dog

Welder's Dog Bar cnr Marsh and Rusden Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW

Dumaresq Drum - Pat Harris, Josh Kreusler and Dave van Tongeren play in completely improvised rhythm cycles. With a grab-bag of synths, sequencers and other toys, the group sits in pockets looking to nod some heads. If you have pipes of bars, you are welcome to sit in for a tune.. Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey

Black Gully Festival

New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

With the themes of music, art, environment and the community, Black Gully Festival is a wonderful and free family-friendly event that celebrates all that is good about livinig in Armidale and is an essential event on the community calendar. The heart of the festival is live music, with performances on three stages. The music is by local performers and includes a wide range of musical styles with bands, soloists and small groups highlighting the fantastic talent in this region. Supporting […]

ADMS presents “Company”

The Armidale Playhouse 309 Beardy Street (cnr Ohio Street), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

TIME: 2.00pm (Sunday), 7.30pm (Friday, Saturday) PHONE RINGS, DOOR CHIMES, IN COMES COMPANY It is Robert's 35th birthday party, and all his friends keep asking: Why isn’t he married? Why can’t he find the right partner and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family? As Robert searches for answers, he discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in 21st-Century New York could drive a person crazy. Someone to crowd you with love, someone to force you […]

$22.50 – $37.50

New England Antique Machinery & Heavy Horse Field Days

Armidale Showground 5 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

TIME: 9.00am-4.00pm (Saturday), 9.00am-2.00pm (Sunday). COST: $10 (adult), free (school child) - EFTPOS available. Theme is anything Ferguson or Massey Ferguson. Vintage working machinery, small engines, steam engines, tractors, working draught horse demonstrations, vintage cars, trucks and motorcycles, tractor pull, military vehicles, post ripping, raffle, swap and stalls, mini tractor pull for kids and, of course, Grand Parades (Saturday and Sunday). Catering available.

$10

Gostwyck Station Open Garden

Gostwyck Station 1043 Gostwyck Road, Gostwyck, NSW, Australia

Cash only. A fundraising event for Uralla CWA. Morning tea, afternoon tea and refreshments for sale. Raffle and plant sale. A rare opportunity to explore the terraced garden.

$10

Motorkhana

Skidpan, Traffic Education Centre Mann Street East, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Speed event (more use of skidpan), quickest times whilst navigating courses. Snacks and drinks available Saturday at the canteen with full BBQ available for purchase. Spectators welcome.

A Day in the Garden

""Balmoral" 333 Grafton Road, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

No EFTPOS facilities on site, please bring cash. Fundraiser for the Armidale Women's Shelter. Guest speakers, gourmet food, market stalls, raffles, fresh flowers, face painting, woodland fairy hunt, storytelling corner. For a fun, family day out exploring, picnicking, learning and great Christmas shopping. 10.30am         Dar Brooks, ABC Saturday Gardening 11.30am         Annabel Spillane, Landscape Architect 1.00pm           Lisa Post, setting the garden table 2.00pm           Rosemerin, the art of flower arranging

$20

Jazz, Blues & Alt. Grooves @ the Dog

Welder's Dog Bar cnr Marsh and Rusden Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW

The Antidotes are the antidote to your just-another-boring-day-in-a-wasted-life malaise. Forget about the droughts, floods, tornadoes, pandemics, wars etc. and let these master musicians take you on a journey into the blissful unknown. Indeed, when asked what they were going to play for the good folks at the Dog, they collectively replied: I dunno! Enough said.. Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey

Degustation Dinner

Railway Hotel 222 Rusden Street, Armidale

The Railway Hotel Armidale, in conjunction with the New England Brewing Company and Glen Gowrie Distillery, is proud to present its first  Beer and Gin Degustation Dinner. Tickets iniclude five-courses with matching  beer and gin with each course - a very special dining experience. You will not want to miss this! Get your friends together and enjoy a great night out.

$75

Guyra Family Day

Guyra Community Hall Dutton Parade, GUYRA, NSW, Australia

Thanks to the partnership with Guyra Local Aboriginal Land Council with Armidale Regional Council for hosting the Family Day. The day is part of the national NAIDOC week celebrations, which are held in July each year. It is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations' cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. This year the message of NAIDOC week was Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! The Family Day […]

“Voices” – A Celebration of Expression

Belgrave Twin Cinema 145 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Special live performance by Armidale Pipe Band, at the screening of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2022.

Jazz, Blues & Alt. Grooves @ the Dog

Welder's Dog Bar cnr Marsh and Rusden Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW

Cat Trousers - For the puuurfect evening out, Cat Trousers, headed by front man and songwriter Gary Jenkins, presents for your listening pleasure, an eclectic selection of cross genre (blues, funk, rock, cat) songs: backed by Michael Capital D Dreilsma (g) and the Cafarella chord (Lucas (g) minor, Adam (b) major, Saul (d)). These are songs of love, lust, loss and other dilemmas of the human condition. Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey

Multicultural Christian Christmas Event

Armidale Ex-services Memorial Club 137 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

COST: $30 (adult), $15 (child) - purchase ticket from Koorong Bookstore (120 Rusden Street) before 20 November - cash payment please. Performances: Pete Stanley, Aboriginal Gospel Singer, Neil Horton and Sara McNeil, Bollywood, Bhumi Patel, People of Bhutan, Emily and Ebony from Liberia, Bibeck Thapa and Deepraj from Nepal, Filipino Dance, St Andrews singers, Sisters and Brothers of Immuculata, Sam Reynolds our Story Teller, Joie Joy Fernandez, Thai Community, Kristian Streinbeck, Lewis Forgarty, Naomi Miller. Wheelchair accessible venue. Maximum 300 […]

$15 – $30

The Great American Songbook @ McCrossins

McCrossin's Mill Museum 29-31 Salisbury Street, URALLA, NSW, Australia

The Great American Songbook: The Singers, The Songwriters, The Songs! The Great American Songbook is the name given to those timeless popular songs written in what many consider to be the golden age of songwriting: 1920s-1960s. Songs penned by such musical giants as Irving Berlin, Col Porter, Rogers & Hart/Hammerstein, the Gershwins, Duke Ellington,  Lerner & Loewe, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Jimmy McHugh, Bacharach & David, Henry Mancini, to name a few; and performed by some of the […]

$21.97

Armidale Symphony Orchestra – “Lux Perpetua”

Saints Mary & Joseph Catholic Cathedral 136 Dangar Street (cnr Barney Street), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Tickets at the door - $25 (adult), $5 (student). Booking online incurs fee. This concert features the Haydn Symphony No. 92 in G major. This work was first performed at the ceremony in which Haydn was awarded the Doctorate of Music from Oxford University, and has thus been known as 'the Oxford symphony'. This work will be conducted by James McKay. Also featured is Cherubini's Requiem in C minor. The Orchestra will be joined by the Armidale Choral Society for […]

$5 – $25

Day Trip to Inverell

Inverell CBD INVERELL, NSW, Australia

Please RSVP by 22/11/22. Armidale Care for Seniors is organizing a getaway for some Christmas shopping out of the way or just window shopping, either way it will be a nice day out! Seats are limited. Masks will be required while on the bus.

$40