Birregurra Festival & Art Show

Tiny town at the foothills of the Otways expects record 15,000 visitors to the 20th Birregurra Festival and Art Show.

In 2000, a festival in a tiny town at the foothills of The Otways was launched. Attracting around 500 visitors in its first year, it was created to lift the spirits of locals and give city dwellers a chance to experience country life. On Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of October this year Birregurra Festival and Art Show turns 20, with over 15,000 visitors expected to visit from all over the state of Victoria.

To celebrate, organisers have pulled out all the stops. The 2019 program features more than 20 live music acts across three stages along with a host of exciting new activities on top of everything you’ve come to expect from the much-loved Festival—all for the very budget friendly sum of a gold coin donation.

Shaking things up with a new stage-side bar as well as a youth quarter for teenagers, the diverse and packed 2019 music line-up spans genres that everyone can enjoy from country and folk to Afro jazz and pop. Saturday’s upbeat program features space-pop upcomers Zoe Fox and the Rocket Clocks—headlining alongside country folk artists Cookie Baker and Kerryn Fields, Splendour in the Grass alumni Ben Whiting, and Geelong’s own funk rockers The Run. Sunday’s program aims to soothe the soul with the heart beating rhythms of funk jazz virtuosos The Senegambian Jazz Band as well as Lucy and the Night Sky, Colac lads The Attics, OMM Community Choir and Festival favourites the Mik Maks.

This year’s Festival also includes more family friendly activities including a reptile show (Saturday), laser tag (Sunday) and a kids circus show as well annual Festival favourites such as the art show, rock’n’roll dancers, vintage cars, dog jump, animal nursery, kids games fair, cow pat lotto and the wood chop. Along with a over 100 arts, craft and garden stalls, the food and wine quarter will be jam packed with global flavours as well as local wineries, distillers and breweries—with live music from Tom Tuena and The Hip Replacements entertaining visitors in the area each afternoon from 2.30pm.

The Birregurra Art Show Gala Opening is on Friday 11th October at 7:30pm. Gala tickets available at the festival website.

For all programming and information, visit the official website.

Media Contact: Vicki Jeffrey, 0419 367994

Birregurra Festival is supported by Colac Otway Shire.