TasWeekend: Your guide to the week’s best events

From singing around a bonfire to celebrating the depths of Tasmania’s winter, here are our picks of the week’s events.

The Bonfire and Big Sing in Salamanca to finish off the Festival of Voices. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

FROM singing around a bonfire to celebrating the depths of Tasmania’s winter, here are our picks of the week’s events.

TODAY

DAVE STEEL AT KUNANYI FOLK CLUB

Fern Tree Tavern, 7.30pm

Dave Steel will headline the Kunanyi Folk Club’s second gathering tonight.

Roots music legend Dave Steel, a former member of Australian folk-rock group Weddings Parties Anything, will headline the Kunanyi Folk Club’s second gathering tonight. Steel and his partner, singer/songwriter Tiffany Eckhardt, live in the Huon Valley. The new folk club meets on the first Saturday of each month. Entry is $12 adults, $10 concession and Folk Federation members, $5 for teens, under 12s are free. Dinner bookings on 6239 1171. facebook.com/events/613388259147339

TOMORROW

BIG SING BONFIRE

Salamanca Place, from 5pm

Don your puffer jacket and head to Salamanca to sing by the fire with thousands of others as part of this free community Festival of Voices centrepiece. Performers in the 90-minute singalong include Dami Im, Henry Wagons, Scott and Nicole Farrow, Uncle Gus and the Rimshots as well as local and visiting choirs. It is one of dozens of musical events running between now and next Sunday. See the full program at festivalofvoices.com

Grab a bite to eat or a whole feast at the Hobart Twilight Market.

HOBART TWILIGHT MARKET

Long Beach, Sandy Bay, 11am-4pm

Sandy Bay’s popular Friday night market is operating during daylight hours on Sundays during the cooler months. So pack a picnic rug and settle in for an afternoon of local food, drinks, live music and design stalls at this family-friendly and dog-friendly event which is held on the first Sunday of the month until September 1. Evening markets still run at Brooke St Pier on the last Friday of every month (except December). Friday night markets at Long Beach resume in October. facebook.com/hobarttwilightmarket

Get along and support yor team when the Kangaroos take on the Saints on Sunday. Picture: MATT THOMPSON

AFL: NORTH MELBOURNE v ST KILDA

Blundstone Arena, 3.20pm

Rug up and enjoy some AFL action at Bellerive where home-crowd favourites the Kangaroos take on the Saints. Consider booking a return trip on the free footy ferry between Wrest Point and Bellerive Wharf to avoid traffic. General admission tickets from $30 adults, $20 concession, children under 15 are free. Book at ticketek.com.au

The “Burning Man” ceremony at the Huon Valley Midwinter Festival. Picture: MATT THOMPSON

FRIDAY

HUON VALLEY MID-WINTER FESTIVAL

Ranelagh Recreation Ground, July 12-14

Celebrate the depths of Tasmania’s winter at this pagan-inspired festival featuring food, live music, cider, storytelling and wassailing. The three-day event kicks off on Friday from 5pm, with plenty of music and the burning of a 15-metre-tall “Big Willie” sculpture. Saturday’s bonfire, Storytelling Cup and wassail runs from 2pm-11pm, while Sunday from 10.30am-4.30pm is family fun day. The new venue is at 49 Marguerite Street, Ranelagh. Tickets start from $16.83 for adults. huonvalleymidwinterfest.com.au