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.
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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
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
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
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
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
Watch out! Undead to invade Hobart in zombie march
Blood, brains, guts and gore will once again fill Hobart streets during the annual Zombie Walk this weekend.
Peking Duk announce surprise Hobart show
It is a bit of a risk announcing a show only a few weeks out, but that does not matter when you are Peking Duk. Where and when the electronic duo are playing.