June 16, 2022
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If you’re heading along to the snow this winter season (or even if you aren’t), you might want to mark Snow Tunes Festival into your calendar!
As we expected, the southern hemisphere’s biggest snow music festival has one heck of a line-up, featuring some of the best Australian and international artists we’ve seen for a while.
This year, the JBL Stage is the place to be. Making its debut at the festival, head here to boogie to an incredible handpicked lineup of electronic music legends.
Sydney master of grooves and nostalgic beats Touch Sensitive will be appearing alongside the DJ duo Vance Musgrove and Mikah Freeman of The Aston Shuffle, as well as The Presets, Motez, Made In Paris and plenty more!
Thank us later.
Wednesdays will be a little bit warmer over the winter season with the Winter Night Markets returning to Melbourne’s iconic Queen Victoria Markets. A night spent wandering through the
charming markets, will see visitors experience roaring fires, delicious mulled wines, with the smell of a tasty street food wafting from the 30 something global food stalls on offer.
When your through with shopping and eating, head over to the Silent Disco for a bit of a boogie, or enjoy the live, local entertainment going on throughout the 13 weeks. Mid-season, it will turn
into a Christmas winter wonderland to celebrate Christmas in July, where the night markets will be filled christmas decorations and snow machines. It’s a winter event for all ages, that we promise you won’t disappoint.
Take a stroll through Melbourne’s premier market
WinterWild is the dark and mystical arts festival taking over the sleepy Victorian town of Apollo Bay over two weekends of August. This years program focuses on the theme of ‘Vision Ecstasies’, with the festival exuberant light installments and displays renowned due to their weird and unusual manner. Though the full program for 2019 is yet to be released, know that it’s not your average arts festivals.
Prepare to dance by the flames of a beach bonfire, indulge in delicious street food, admire enchanting art projects and join in on the many intriguing after-dark activities that you’ll lose yourself throughout the fun of the night.
Get wild
15 June – 31 August 2019
From June through to August, Canberra becomes the truffle capital of Australia. The event kicks off with a signature truffle hunt, and then the ‘Blessing of the Truffle Dogs’ on 16 June, where the adorable dogs are celebrated in the hopes of a prosperous truffle hunting season. For your $132 ticket you get to meet the dogs, join in a live truffle hunt and enjoy a country-style feast – with plenty of truffle, of course.
Going on 11 years, this year’s Truffle Festival brings with it a calendar full of events over winter highlighting the rare black winter truffle.
The ultimate winter festival, you won’t find a place filled with cosier nooks and delicious wine than Canberra, as they continue the celebration of what has become a major tourism draw card over the winter months.
From truffle degustations, to delicious truffle-infused menus, the festival now also boasts cooking schools, markets, wineries, breweries, cafes, restaurants and the celebrated truffle growers themselves – putting on a range of incredible experiences. Fancy trying truffle-infused beer at BentSpoke Brewing Co, anyone?
When your parents told you not to play with fire, what they actually meant was… let someone else do it for you! This August sees Orange and Millthorpe host the annual Orange Winter Fire Festival, and a whole swag of events showcasing why these towns have established themselves firmly as official regional foodie destinations.
If you’re watching your waistline don’t worry, there is something for everyone, with everything from night markets to poetry sessions and astronomy classes. Now that’s literally lit.
There’s plenty to do in Orange this winter
Love the Vivid vibes but hate the crowds associated with it? It’s time to head south! Held in two locations across Victoria the White Night Festival is designed to awaken your inner night owl. Come celebrate local, national and international contemporary art pieces from outdoor light displays to street performances. If flashy lights isn’t really your thing, most shops part take in the festivities meaning you can shop till you drop all night long!
White Night is one of Melbourne’s most anticipated events
Now a firm fixture on Australia’s cultural calendar, Dark Mofo offers the usual mix of avant-garde music (2019 saw folk-rock performer Sharon Van Etten and renowned FKA Twigs); irresistible local produce (the decadent Winter Feast is a piece of theatre in itself); and controversy; all underscored by themes of centuries-old winter solstice rituals.
All Dark MOFO experiences are memorable
Adelaide’s festival season doesn’t end in autumn, as its annual cabaret festival proves. With a program of both classic and contemporary performances, it showcases the best in local, national and international talent.
Incredible scenes at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Handmade beanie hats – often colourful and individual in style and pattern – have long been valued in Central Australia and are celebrated as a distinctive regional art form each winter at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival.
This fun, community-based event emerged over 20 years ago as a ‘beanie party’ organised to sell hats crocheted by Aboriginal women in remote communities and, though much larger in scale today, retains this raison d’être. As well as choosing from the 7000-plus beanies on sale, visitors can take part in all manner of crafty workshops, from basket weaving to eco-dyeing and of course, beanie-making.
Alice Springs becomes home to all things beanie
Cute coastal town Port Fairy is famous for its folk festival in autumn, while cooler months call for Winter Weekends: a celebration of the town’s food, art, nature, history, culture and community.
Over a series of weekends, visitors can see the town illuminated with light installations and get involved in everything from coffee classes, gin and whisky tastings and mad-hatter tea parties to literary events, degustation dinners and cemetery ghost tours.
Celebrate the town’s food, art, nature, history, culture and community
Tasmania’s ‘other’ mid-winter festival is a three-day pagan-inspired celebration of the region’s apple history that takes place at their new home, the Ranelagh Showgrounds.
Its central focus is Saturday night’s wassail, an ancient tradition still celebrated in the West Country of England, where revellers – in full pagan get-up – chant incantations, bang pots and pans, and shoot shotguns to wake up dormant apple trees in hope of a good season ahead. Festivities are complemented by folk music, feasting, and of course, lashings of cider.
There’ll be plenty of Bonfires
If when you think of winter you picture quality wines, comfort food, self-contained chalets and acres of breathtaking forest, then the Margaret River’s Cabin Fever winter food and wine festival is the pick for you.
Over 10 days, expect over 30 unique events, including bonfires, brews, live music and an appreciation for chocolate, cheese and coffee. Better still, the best in regional produce will be available – and you’ll be able to appreciate it all under the star-filled view of your very own local chalet.
Bello Winter Music, in the creative New South Wales hub of Bellingen, brings local, national and international performers to the town’s pubs, halls and streets. The musically inclined among us can also take part in workshops with the festival’s performers.
Stay in a bell tent in the festival camping village, or opt for a cosy B&B.
Jumpers and Jazz in July is a quirky and colourful festival that takes place over crisp, sunny winter days in the south-east Queensland town of Warwick.
It’s a feast of jazz, art and quirky yarn bombing, where every tree in town is dressed in textile art – or jumpers – for the occasion.
Over 100 events take place over 10 days, including exhibitions, pop-up craft shops, high teas, heritage train rides, a winter dinner and concert combo, and a new Laneway Party.
If you’ve been to Sovereign Hill before, you’ll know it as a version of Ballarat in the late 1800s. What you might not know is that this magical place turns into a breathtaking wintry wonderland each day during the ‘Christmas in July’ festival.
Beauty and the Beast plays in the ‘town’s’ theatre, carols play in the street and St. Nick may even be spotted visiting! By nightfall, the street is lit up with Vivid-style grand-scale images dancing along the old-style buildings.
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