The Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Festival will again be opened with the Food and Wine night market, which this year is scheduled for Friday, February 16.
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There will be six key events to make up the 10-day festival, which will run from February 16 to 25.
Those events are the night market, the Rotary Brekky and Poetry in the Park; Banjo’s Birthday Breakfast; a concert at Yeoval; the Emmaville Cottage Family Market Day and the Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Competition.
This year’s Yeoval concert will feature singer Anne Kirkpatrick.
Festival chairman Jason Byrne said the festival wasn’t just about Banjo Paterson.
“This is a festival that not only celebrates one of our most iconic locals, but also the authenticity of the Australian bush; its’ people and poets,” he said.
“In a region renowned for its incredible cool-climate wine and as being a dream destination for foodies, the Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Festival provides us with an additional very hospitable umbrella of culture - under which we can gather everyone together to enjoy Australian history, song and prose in an enjoyable and convivial country atmosphere.”
Byrne said the festival was broadening its scope and for the second year was embracing the richness and diversity of the Wiradjuri nation’s cultural heritage, and was hoping to simultaneously acknowledge the traditions and culture of the First People of the region alongside the Central West’s European heritage.
