In preparation for the Yandina Street Festival Parade, workshops are being held at Yandina Community Centre over the 2 weeks leading up to the event. Learn the crafts & skills of community art, & prepare to experience all the excitement of the fair.

Quality facilitators will guide you in a variety of fun themes. Want to learn how to make & play instruments from recycled material? Maybe there's a clown in you that just needs some coaxing to escape? Or perhaps you have a passion to paint the town red? Oh, and the workshops are FREE!

Check out the workshops on offer & go on, have a go. This year the Yandina Street Festival is celebrating it's 30th year!! so its going to be a whopper. Be a part of the fun & join your community to show the whole shire what Yandina has to offer.

Contact Suzanne- Email mob: 0438 149814
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Yandina Celebrates Street Festival's 30th Birthday! Editorial - Wendy O'Hanlon

IT'S being billed as the biggest street festival the Sunshine Coast has ever seen and with 11 hours of entertainment in store, the 30th annual Yandina Street Festival is sure draw the crowds on Sunday, August 17. History will be in the making on that day as the hinterland town stages the Sunshine Coast's oldest festival event. For 30 years, the main streets of Yandina have closed for the one-day event that spotlights the variety of talent in the region from community and school groups to musicians, dancers and fashion designers.
The festival kicks off at 11am and runs until 7pm with three stages of entertainment, street performers, stalls galore, sideshow rides, an historical display and a massive fireworks display. Plus, a colourful and free series of art, music and craft workshops will be run at Yandina Community Centre for the two weeks leading up to the festival.

Festival spokesperson, Wendy O'Hanlon, said the festival committee, under the umbrella of the Yandina Chamber of Commerce, was extremely excited about the event's 30th birthday and had chosen the theme 'Let's Celebrate' to do that just.
"It's a tremendous credit to the community spirit of this hinterland region to have worked hard for 30 long years to keep this festival not only going, but growing," Ms O'Hanlon said. "This year will be our biggest yet." "We are currently putting together a commemorative publication to celebrate our 30 years and welcome anyone with old photographs or anecdotes to contact us with their stories. Just call 0432 242 806 or 0438 149 814."

Entertainment highlights on the day include festival stalwarts, Uncle Bob's Jug Band performing with the Sunshine Coast's own 'Big Bob'- Mayor Bob Abbot; Barry Charles; Phil Emmanuel; Drawcard; Bill and Rachel Ryan; Michelle Brown and Johnny Maier and many more. A host of young musicians will also take centre stage including the Shake It Up Allstars Orchestra just back from a cultural exchange tour of China, Spec2C, One Two, Kindred, the Massey Smith Trio and more.
MAIN STAGE PROGRAMME

The new Chatterbox venue will boast Bazza the Bush Balladeer, the Speed Poets, Coast trio Madame Firebird, festival originals Brian Curry and Dave Johnson plus a host of anecdotes from festival organisers and performers spanning the 30 years.

Other festival performers include the Sunshine Coast Caledonian Pipes and Drums Band, the Gubbi Gubbi Dancers, North Arm School Merimbah Bands, Yandina School Choir, Yandina State School Dance Academy with their 'Let's Celebrate' theme, the Filipino Dancers, Amazing Stargazing Junkologists, the Ragged Band Morris Dance Team, Cool Harmonies and the Howarazzi Belly Dancers.
BLUE MOON STAGE PROGRAMME

Enjoy an evening of live music at the Yandina Community Centre after the Street Festival from 5.00pm to 9.00pm on Sunday 17 August. Bands include The Atomic Cruisers and Cold Cash.
Dance to your favorite rock songs including AC/DC, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.
At the Yandina Community Centre, Farrell Street, Yandina (next to Yandina Skate Park).
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