Easter Festivals 2012
In Australia, there are many festivals held during Easter.
The largest one of these is held in Sydney Australia and is known as the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
2012 Sydney Royal Easter Show
April 2012
The dates for the 2011 Show are 5 - 18 April 2012 band the show is held at the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park.
The Show displays many of Australia’s best produce, farm animals, parades, rides, fireworks, food, sideshows and fun.
The Easter Show is Australia’s largest annual event, a nationally iconic showcase of Australian culture and heritage.
The Show aims to recognise achievements in agriculture through competition, and promote awareness among city Showgoers, honouring our agricultural heritage whilst providing a platform for the future.
Live music, extreme action performances, entertainment, sideshow, food, rides, and shopping make up the rest of the Show, providing a dynamic entertainment experience for the whole family.
The Sydney Royal Easter Show is a world class event unique to Australian culture. Around 900,000 visitors attend each year making it one of the largest events of its kind in the world.
www.eastershow.com.au
2012 Bendigo Easter Festival, Bendigo, Victoria
April 6-8, 2012
The Bendigo Easter Festival has been in existence since 1870, and is the oldest community festival in Australia that occurs at Easter each year and allows access for all.
Following on from the success of this year, the Bendigo Easter Festival will retain a three day format in 2012 commencing on Good Friday April 6 and concluding on Easter Sunday April 8.
Venue: Various locations throughout Bendigo
The experience of Easter in Bendigo will live in your memory forever!
2012 National Folk Festival, Canberra, ACT
April 5-9, 2012
Exhibition Park in Canberra, Australia.
The National Folk Festival is celebrated in Canberra, every Easter, when the city is frocked up in its golden autumn best. Australia’s festival flagship, the ‘National’, draws together people from all around Australia and the world. They come to share in the songs, dances, tunes, and verse that have flowed through the ages from many communities into Australian folk culture.
For five days Exhibition Park in Canberra dresses up and becomes a magic place, filled with colour and sound. Hundreds of the world’s best musicians perform daily, in a non-stop flow of entertainment across twenty two fabulous venues. Every day is packed with workshops and sessions, where you can join in the dancing, singing and playing and become part of the celebration. It’s all there for you; once you’ve bought your ticket and come through the magic time portal you won’t need to leave.
For more information check out www.folkfestival.org.au/
Bluesfest 2012, Byron Bay, NSW
April 5-9, 2012
Bluesfest festival leads off with some big names in blues, reggae and roots pop, nicely rounded off with great artists in the alternative country, hip hop, soul, world and rock genres. With a list like this, it’s hard to believe there will be more amazing line-up announcements made, but there will be!
For the latest most up-to-date line up of artists and playing schedule see www.bluesfest.com.au
A must weekend for blues lovers.
Tilba Easter Festival
Live music, roaming street performers, hilarious street games with prizes, craft demonstrations, market stalls, lots of yummy food and more!
www.tilba.com.au/tilbafestival.htm
Easterfest (Australian Gospel Music Festival )
Toowoomba, QLD
April 6-8, 2012
Easterfest is about music, it is about having fun with friends and family, it is about community, it is about making a difference in the world… but most importantly it is all about Easter itself. The first Easter split time in two and thousands of years later it is still the most defining point in history - worth celebrating!
For more information see www.agmf.com.au.
2012 Ulladulla Blessing of the Fleet Festival, Ulladulla, NSW
The Blessing of the Fleet is an old and revered tradition which has been passed down from generation to generation originating in Sicily and as ancient as biblical times. This centuries old Italian rite calls on divine providence to safeguard ships and crews from the danger of the seas
Ulladulla’s Italian community’s traditional ceremony of blessing the Ulladulla is on Easter Sunday at 12 noon at the harbour under the watchful eye of St Peter, the Patron Saint of the fisherman and the festival princesses.
www.blessingofthefleet.info
Golden Horseshoes Festival in Beechworth
April 2012
The Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival is traditionally the biggest annual festival on the Beechworth calendar and attracts around ten thousand visitors to the region over the Easter long weekend each year with many booking out accommodation and restaurants years in advance. The festival also attracts many day visitors from the surrounding districts all keen to see the spectacle.
www.beechworth.com.au
Four Winds Festival
6 - 8 April 2012
Four Winds is a biennial festival of classic, cultural and world music. It takes place every second Easter in a parkland bush amphitheatre near Bermagui, amidst the wild beauty of the Sapphire Coast, on the far south coast of NSW, Australia.
www.fourwinds.com.au
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