Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

No Party Arty Street Party

Walkers in the 10km Charity Walk from the Big Barrel into Maleny township will be rewarded by a party in their honour. Yes, it’s election day, and even non-walkers can come to the No Party Arty Street Party on Saturday 21 August. It’s an election- free zone but plenty of fun, as part of the [...]

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Once with David Helfgott

Audiences on the Sunshine Coast will get a rare opportunity to experience world-renowned Australian pianist David Helfgott in concert when he performs at Sunshine Coast Grammar School in July. Mr Helfgott’s appearance at Grammar is part of a series of not-for profit concerts, backed by the Ellaways Music Foundation, which raises money for school music programs [...]

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Playing Viennese Delights

The Pacific Chamber Players will play a popular variety of Viennese Delights at their next concert. The program will include Offenbach’s Barcarolle, Strauss’ Radetzky March, Blue Danube Waltz, The Gypsy Baron Overture. For the Mozart fans the group will play Mozart’s very popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and his flute quartet No 1 in D Major K 285. Chamber [...]

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Beerwah’s Got more Country

Hot on the heels of the launch of his new album Hey Tomorrow Rob Black will be performing live and free on Saturday July 10 from 8pm at the Beerwah Hotel. His first album Regular Guy was a huge success and has helped Rob gain extraordinary following in the local area and beyond with video clips [...]

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Palmwoods Got the Blues

There is plenty of warmth in the acts offered by Palmwoods Got The Blue as we enter our coldest month. On Saturday July 17 Ross Williams, a Sunshine Coast musical icon, takes to the stage. Ross has been playing for many years with long time collaborator Doc Span as both a duo and band. These days [...]

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Tommy the Troubadour

Maleny’s Upfront Club presents Tommy Leonard this month – the popular, local troubadour. The self-proclaimed ‘folkie’ whose warm and melodic voice has been heard throughout the south-east Queensland folk music scene since the early 1990s. He is a regular performer at the Woodford Folk Festival and he has written his own songs including Enough is [...]

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The Dreaming Festival

Woodford s sixth The Dreaming Festival (11 14 June) promises to be a four day extravaganza of multiple art forms, including Australian Indigenous performers, native Canadians, Solomon Islander and Fijian dancers and Kenyan stage actors. Across the green campus ofWoodford there will be story telling workshops, poets breakfasts, red couch monologues, yoga circles and Maori meditations. [...]

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Bill Hauritz … the folk festival fixer

The Queensland festival space, ‘Woodfordia’ has become renowned throughout Australia and internationally for its celebration of folk and indigenous cultures. Its guiding hand for the past two decades is Bill Hauritz, executive director of the Queensland Folk Federation. As he prepares for The Dreaming festival in June, the Hinterland Times asked Bill Hauritz about the [...]

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Fiddles, flutes and fun at Celtic Festival

The Blackall Range will ring with the sound of pipes, flutes, fiddles and drums this June with the return of the Maleny Celtic Winter School. The first Winter School, held in Maleny last year attracted over 100 budding musicians to attend classes run by some of Australia’s finest performers and teachers of Celtic music and [...]

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Reality Bites non-fiction fest

The Sunshine Coast will be hosting some of Australia’s finest nonfiction writers, journalists, poets and film-makers in this year’s Reality Bites, non-fiction literary festival. Thirty-six authors in 43 sessions spread over two weekends (Frid. July 23- Sun. August 1) are bound to enthrall audiences with true stories of love and compassion, the realities of Australia’s environmental [...]

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