TasWeekend: Your guide to the week’s best events around the state

Here are our best picks from the state’s entertainment scene this week.

The giant pumpkin weigh-in is always popular at Bream Creek Show. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

Here are our best picks from the state’s entertainment scene this week.

TODAY

BREAM CREEK SHOW

Bream Creek Showground, 9am-4pm

In 1897 tiny Bream Creek hosted its inaugural show, with a focus on judging farm produce, needlework and cookery. Today, the Bream Creek Show maintains old-fashioned country values with sheepdog trials, shearing, draught horses, woodchopping, hay baling, a Blunnie Toss competition and Hall of Industries displays as well as rides, an animal nursery, live music, paddock to plate experiences, and a giant pumpkin weigh-in. Entry is $10 adults, $5 children or $25 per family (two adults and up to four children). breamcreekshow.com.au

Moonlight Aviators’s sultry cabaret dancers are performing at Spiegeltent in Hobart.

MOONLIGHT AVIATORS — SQUEEZEBOX CABARET

Spiegeltent Hobart, Princes Wharf 1 Forecourt, 4pm

Be whisked away to the Squeezebox, a clandestine club where the drinks are bootlegged, the clientele anonymous, and the jazz-age is artfully reanimated for your entertainment. This cheeky show has tantalising tunes, sultry songbirds and a charismatic master of ceremonies. Tickets are $30. spiegeltenthobart.com

Foul-mouthed puppet Randy Feltface will be performing at the Laughs of Launnie festival. Picture: Nicole Garmston

MONDAY

LAUGHS OF LAUNNIE

Various venues, March 18-24

Get ready to laugh out loud. The Laughs of Launnie – Launceston International Comedy Festival – is a week-long event featuring 30+ local, national and international comedians performing at 12 venues in the state’s north. The festival kicks off with an opening night gala at Albert Hall, with performers including Cal Wilson, Chris Franklin, Kirk Smith, Georgie Carroll and Stephen K Amos. There’s also The Great Comedy Debate, a Charity Gala raising funds for Ronald McDonald House and a string of other gigs by familiar faces such as Steady Eddy, Heath Franklin, Lehmo, Randy Feltface, Akmal Saleh, Fiona O’Loughlin and Tripod. laughsoflaunnie.com.au

Djuki Mala. Picture: Supplied

THURSDAY

DJUKI MALA

Spiegeltent Hobart, Princes Wharf 1 Forecourt, 6.30pm & Saturday 2pm & 6.30pm

This hit indigenous dance group will wow Spiegeltent audiences with a spectacular fusion of traditional dance, pop culture and storytelling that is a sensational performance of timing, comedy and clowning based on more than 75,000 years of ancestral knowledge. Tickets are $45. spiegeltenthobart.com

Bosnian singer Bozo Vreco is performing at Ten Days on the Island in Hobart. Picture: MARIO KLEIN

FRIDAY to SUNDAY

TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND

Various Locations, March 22-24

This statewide multi-arts festival culminates with three days of free and ticketed events across Hobart. The action-packed program includes dance performances The Stance and Dust, an art-meets-science exhibition, Pandemic, and the Tasmanian Theatre Company’s premiere of The Mares. There’s also music from Bosnian singer Bozo Vreco, Czech soprano Hana Blazikova, Italy-based cornetto virtuoso Bruce Dickey as well as local musicians from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Van Diemen’s Band. tendays.org.au

Photographic exhibition Eyes As Big As Plates is showing as part of Ten Days on the Island.