The Red Hot Country Festival
The unmistakable, sound of good-hearted country music will take over the NightQuarter when The Red Hot Country Festival with Casey Barnes, Taylor Moss & The Buckleys kicks off. Already a household name on the Australian country music scene, Casey Barnes’ genre-defying rise is just getting started. He is currently the most played Australian country artist on mainstream radio and is cementing himself as one of the nation’s must-see artists. He has been nominated for an ARIA, four Golden Guitars and is a finalist for the 2021 APRA Professional Development Awards – a must see performer.
When: Friday, June 25, 4pm-10pm
Where: NightQuarter, Birtinya
Tickets: nightquarter.com.au
The Tap Pack
Direct from sold-out houses and rave reviews in London, Berlin and Beijing, Australia’s newest and hottest tap dance sensation, The Tap Pack is coming to Caloundra. Picking up where The Rat Pack left off, The Tap Pack conjures up a modern twist to the crooners and artists from the 50s through to the noughties. Featuring songs from Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr to Sheeran, Buble and Beyonce. The Tap Pack mix slick humour, high energy entertainment and world-class tap dance. A show of pure entertainment inspired by the legendary kings of swing, The Rat Pack, freshly created for the audience today.
When: Friday, June 25, 7.30pm-9:30pm.
Where: The Events Centre Caloundra, Minchinton Street Caloundra
Tickets: $69.90 via bit.ly/3cNUvkb
Buderim Craft Cottage Biennial Quilt Exhibition
Patchwork and quilting have been practised as both practical and decorative crafts for centuries. Examples of quilting have been found in tombs of Pharaohs dating back to 3400BC. It’s said quilts even played a role in America’s so-called Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses used by escaped slaves to make their way to freedom. Buderim patchworker Wendy Tame became fascinated by the story and has made a quilt featuring all the blocks that contain secret codes. This quilt will be on display at the event, along with another of Wendy’s quilts with historic roots, a scaled down replica of the Rajah Quilt.
When: Friday, June 25, 9am-3pm
Where: Buderim Craft Cottage, Main Street, Buderim
Tickets: Free event
Discover the Teeth and Tails of the sea
Discover the teeth and tails of incredible aquatic animals as you go on a journey through the underwater world at SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast Aquarium these school holidays. Kids will receive an activity booklet and the aquarium’s marine experts will take guests on a deep dive into the form and function of sea creatures’ body parts at an artefacts station. Learn about the sharp teeth of the creepy-looking moray eel, which has a hidden set of jaws to help swallow prey. Find out how seals use their carnivore-like teeth, and you can also discover why the little blue penguins secrete oily liquid from their tails and learn all the amazing things seahorses can do with their curly tails.
When: Saturday, June 26 – Sunday, July 11
Where: SEA LIFE Aquarium, The Wharf Mooloolaba
Tickets: $44 for adults, $31 for children, free for children under three
Tropicale by Catalina
Tropicale is a Saturday afternoon beach club event hosting the best local and touring DJs aboard Catalina. Join in every Saturday for cocktails and dancing over sunset on the Noosa River. Included in your ticket price are selections from the exclusive Tropicale event menu curated by The Ohana group director and executive chef Ryan Fitzpatrick. Seasonally adjusted to compliment the year-round Catalina experience, Tropicale is Saturday evenings done right.
When: Saturday, June 26, 3.30pm-7pm
Where: Catalina Jetty, Gympie Terrace, Noosaville
Tickets: $53.25 via, bit.ly/3pZd765
The Bug Day Out
The Bug Day Out is a celebration of our little insect neighbours. The day is an opportunity for the public to come and have a look at what we do in a fun in interactive way.
The day’s activities will include: biocontrol facility tours, the launch of our butterfly garden (using native and endemic plant species), the Bugs to the Rescue gallery of student bug designs (and people’s choice voting), a macroinvertebrate display of some of the waterbugs you can find in the Mooloolah River, Kids/DIY workshops and activities, A Bugs Ed edible insect display (eating insects for sustainability), some fantastic insect collections, a bugs and beads pop-up bug shop (insect related art and jewellery), book and native plant sale to promote beneficial insects and host butterflies and food and coffee.
When: Saturday, June 26, 10am-2pm
Where: Mooloolah River Land Care, Steve Irwin Way Glenview
Tickets: Free event
Rosie Galah – paint and sip
Paint and sip events are a great way to explore your creative side while having fun in a relaxed, encouraging environment. The Art Hub Sunshine Coast has a local artist who will show you step-by-step on how to create the featured painting. All art materials are supplied including a 40cm x 50cm canvas for you to take home. No experience necessary.
When: June 26, 7pm-9:20pm
Where: The Art Hub Sunshine Coast, 19b/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra
Tickets: $50 via, thearthubsc.com.au/event-details/rosie-galah-paint-sip
Kids ClimART
Artist Yanni van Zijl presents a special workshop series exploring climate change. Children and their caregivers will create several large and colourful group artworks — playing with paint, ink and charcoal using handmade brushes and tools. Yanni will guide children and their caregivers to explore climate impacts, perceptions of change, actions for hope and intergenerational legacies. The group artworks will be developed by Yanni into an installation called Winds of Change, to be publicly exhibited during Horizon Festival 2021, Friday 27 August – Sunday 5 September.
When: Monday, June 28, 9am-12:30pm
Where: Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary, Sports Road, Bli Bli
Tickets: $8 via, bit.ly/3gT14Dx
BATS Theatre Company presents EURYDICE
BATS Theatre Company’s EURYDICE, tells the classic Greek myth of Orpheus reimagined through the eyes of its heroine. Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. With her father’s words in her hand, Eurydice crashes down a flight of stairs and wakes in the underworld, her memory wiped. Orpheus knows his love is now in Hades, and makes a plan to travel into the land of the dead. But will he be able to revive his beloved wife? And will Eurydice even want to go home?
When: Friday, July 2, and Saturday, July 3, 7:30pm. Matinee Saturday 2pm
Where: The Buderim War Memorial Hall, Cnr Main and Church Streets, Buderim
Tickets: Adult $30, Concession $26 via, batstheatre.com
Sunday Social Paddle
Join The Kindness Collective for a relaxed Sunday morning social paddle on the Maroochy River. Head out from Cotton Tree Park for a 90-minute paddle wherever the conditions allow, whether it’s up through the mangroves on Goat Island, up to Sunshine Plaza, or Pincushion Island. As usual, you can bring your own board or paddle craft or there will also be SUP hire boards available from Ocean Addicts.
When: Sunday July 4, 8am
Where: Cotton Tree Pier
Tickets: Board hire $30 via bit.ly/3wIkZLK
Dave Graney and Clare Moore
However they choose to play, Dave Graney and Clare Moore bring their story and their songbook which stretches to over 40 albums. During the pandemic lockdown, which they experienced in Melbourne, they started doing online shows every week, sometimes twice a week and revisited songs from all these albums as well as workshopping new material. They kept their performing, playing and writing skills sharp. They have also been in the studio recording a new album, provisionally titled ‘Thus Wags the World’, as well as issuing three live albums from the vaults in the last twelve months.
When: Friday July 9, 7.30pm
Where: Imperial Hotel Eumundi, Etheridge Street Eumundi
Tickets: $34.70. Visit imperialhoteleumundi.com.au
