Articles tagged ‘festivals’

Melbourne Fringe Festival

By Roger | August 10th, 2008 | Add a Comment »

Following in the footsteps of other fringe festivals, most notably the enormous Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland, the Melbourne Fringe Festival has grown incredibly from its modest roots in 1983 as an alternative to the Moomba Festival, into one of the biggest and most anticipated events on the entire Melbourne culture calendar. The Melbourne Fringe now [...]

 

Lightning Ridge, Easter Celebration Tips #3 Food and Accomodation

By Heather | April 25th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

The Easter Celebrations in Lightning Ridge are one of the must do outrageous country town festivals. Right up there with the Parkes Elvis Festival, Lightning Ridge has made a name for itself with their annual Great Goat Race!
Accomodation- Motels book out a year in advance- so start calling now! If you don’t mind [...]

 

Achtung! Upcoming Music Festivals!

By Heather | October 22nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Legs 11 http://www.legseleven.com.au/
27 October –The Domain- $74 plus booking
Support Breast Cancer and have an upmarket festival experience- Sarah Blasko, Tex Perkins
Homebake http://www.homebake.com.au/
2 December- The Domain- already sold out
Festival of the Sun http://www.fotsun.com/
15-16 December- Port Macquarie- $95
Augie March, The beautiful girls and more- laid back and you can camp on site!
Peats Ridge- http://www.peatsridgefestival.com.au/home.asp
29 Dec- 1 January [...]