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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.

Have an event to add to the calendar?

Noël Wears a Cabbage Tree Hat

Western Common Room, Old Teachers' College cnr Mossman and Faulkner Streets, RMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Ticket also available at the door. Sunny, serious and silly songs for a hot Australian Christmas performed by the Armidale Choral Society with Conductor Inge Southcott and Accompanist Sheila Guymer, and guest artists Sharon Davidge (flute) and David Rowe (oboe)

$10.50 – $25.50

The Grand Hotel 251 Rusden Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Interactive games show style, free to play, prizes and giveaways, $5 schooners, $7 house wines.

Free
Event Series Borromini and Bernini @ the Belgrave

Borromini and Bernini @ the Belgrave

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

Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection is the story of an architectural revolution carried out by a solitary genius who changed the appearance of Rome forever, by taking up a personal challenge against convention and prejudice, by having the humility to learn from the past in order to invent the future, and the courage to pursue an idea by paying the price to the full.

$13.50 – $65

Celebrating Thirty Years of “The Australian Voices”

St Peter's Anglican Cathedral 122 Rusden Street (cnr Dangar Street), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

This celebration brings together a three-decade legacy of Australian choral music. Get ready for new commissions, ground breaking classics, alumni performances, former artistic director appearances, major announcements, record number collaborations, and more

$15 – $30

Railway Hotel 222 Rusden Street, Armidale

Come for a great night with good company and test your knowledge.

Free

Jazz, Blues & Alt. Grooves @ the Dog

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

Come and enjoy jazz at one of Armidale's grooviest venues. Tomless – Kate and Sam Frazier are a sibling duo who occasionally jam without their brother, Tom, who couldn’t make the night, leaving the duo tomless. Their sound is cool, relaxed and pared back. A mix of originals and covers, they play what they feel and feel what they play. Come along tonight and you’re sure to enjoy the fun vibes of tomless. Music washes away the dust of everyday […]

Colombo Night @ Kottoo

Colombo Kottoo 7/4-10 Queen E;lizabeth Drive, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

All you can eat  buffet - 25 varieties and includes one Sri Lankan beer or wine. Garden dining with candlelight vibes. Live music by Ishara. Booking essential.

$95

Festive Flicks @ Bool

Southern Lawn, "Booloominbah" University of New England, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Bring the family and a picnic blanket to enjoy a free Christmas event and movie for the community. There will be plenty of family-friendly activities, while Armidale local, Fergus Lupton, provides live music. There will be market stalls, food trucks, and so much more. From 8.00pm, the movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, will screen.

Carols in the Cathedral

St Peter's Anglican Cathedral 122 Rusden Street (cnr Dangar Street), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Carols with choir, organ, brass and woodwind.

Free
Event Series Fundarra Church Markets

Fundarra Church Markets

St Mary's Anglican Church 64 Bendemeer Street, BUNDARRA, NSW, Australia

Come and support your local community: the pre-Christmas markets will have Christmas gift specials; stalls from local country folks; cake stall, local produce; sausage sizzle, church café; face painting, music and more.

Armidale Jam Circle

The Grand Hotel 251 Rusden Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

If your jam is bluegrass, old timey, skiffle or slightly folk, you are invited to the Armidale Jam Circle. It is not about how well you play or sing, just that you come along and join in. Tune List: Old Favourites, Rollin in my Sweet Baby’Arms, Cornbread & Butter Beans, Wagon Wheel, East Virginia Blues, Rosewood, Worried Man Blues, I’ll Fly Away, Wayfaring Stranger, Will the Circle be Unbroken, Cripple Creek, Sittin’ on Top of the World, Boil Them Cabbage […]

Free

Hodges @ the Newie

New England Hotel Cnr Dangar and Beardy Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Good music, good company, good evening!

Free

Christmas Markets in the Mall

Beardy Street Mall Beardy Street Mall, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

More than 50 different stalls and live music from local band, Four Book Trilogy. A variety of stalls offering a huge range of quality handmade and handcrafted items, cupcakes, candles, bath and body products, skincare and makeup, handmade clothing, bags, shoes, linen, pottery, woodwork, plants, art, homewares, toys, puppets, stamping and scrap booking plus so much more.

Armidale & Uralla All Breeds Kennel Club Shows

Armidale Showground 5 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Food van (Ed’s Tucker Box) and the Herd Bar available for the hungry ones. Armidale Friday, 15 December – 3-6 mths Sweepstakes (Gundogs, General Specials); 6-12 mths Sweepstakes (Non-sporting); Toys; Working Dogs; Terriers; Hounds; Utility. Saturday, 16 December – Hounds; Toys; Terriers, General Specials; Gundogs; 3-6 mths Sweepstakes (Utility); Workings Dogs; 6-12 mths Sweepstakes (Non-sporting). Sunday, 17 December – Terriers; Hounds; Gundogs; Utility; Non-sporting, General Specials; 6-12 mths Sweepstakes (Toys); 3-6 mths Sweepstakes (Working Dogs). Uralla Friday PM, 15 December […]

Santa Fest @ the Railway

Railway Hotel 222 Rusden Street, Armidale

Come one, come all to the Railway Ho-Ho-Hotel for our first ever Santa Fest, to help raise some much-needed funds for the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal. Be there with bells on as you rock your best Santa or Mrs Claus attire in a fully decked-out beer garden. There will be a live DJ from midday, photobooth and plenty of cheer!

Free

Community Carols Night

St Mark's UNE Church 73 Trevenna Road, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, NSW, Australia

5.00pm (food and fun), from 6.00pm (carols). Enjoy a night under the trees, celebrating Christmas and singing timeless carols.

Free
Event Series NSW Under 13 Cricket State Titles

NSW Under 13 Cricket State Titles

Various ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

DRAW 18 December (10.00am) - Round 3 - Central Coast versus Newcastle Blasters (Sportsground. 58 Dumaresq Street (cnr Douglas Street)); Lake Mac Attack versus HV Thoroughbreds (Bellevue Oval, right off Handel Street (University of New England)); Far North Coast versus Northern Inland Bolters (Rologas Fields, cnr Dumaresq and Taylor Streets); Mid North Coast versus North Coast (Harris Park) 19 December (10.00am) - Round 4 - Far North Coast versus Newcastle Blasters (Rologas Fields); Mid North Coast versus Central Coast (Bellevue […]

Jazz, Blues & Alt. Grooves @ the Dog

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

Come and enjoy jazz at one of Armidale's grooviest venues. Divas of the Night – Three of the region’s finest divas come together to present their favourite songs. The night features the fabulous and flirtatious Carol Elder, Katy Haselwood and Sharny Russell on vocals, accompanied by the incomparable Warwick Dunham on keyboards, Steve Thorneycroft on guitar and Cary Bennett on drums. This will be a night of great music and surprises, with a few friends sitting in as well. There […]