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May 2012
APRIL
29
Rockhampton Eisteddfod
Start Date:
29-Apr-2012
End Date:
03-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Family Fun, Performances
The Rockhampton Eisteddfod held annually includes a packed program of speech, dance, vocal, piano and instrumental sections. Official programs will be on sale from the Pilbeam Theatre Box Office...
MAY
07
This classic Australian tale by Banjo Paterson will come to life at Beef Australia 2012 with the help of local actors, singers, dancers, musicians and stage hands.
The Man From Snowy River is a...
MAY
10
Troy Cassar-Daley and Band
Start Date:
10-May-2012
End Date:
10-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances
If you love country music don't miss the iconic Troy Cassar-Daly. Troy is the true spirit of country music and his love of the art and all things Australian comes through in his songs. He has won...
MAY
11
Beef Australia Finale Concert
Start Date:
11-May-2012
End Date:
11-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Nightlife, Performances
Australian country music legend, Kasey Chambers, and Rockhampton's own chart successes, Busby Marou, will headline the Beef Australia 2012 Country Collaboration Concert.
The multi-ARIA awarding...
MAY
24
CQUni Lunchtime Concert Series
Start Date:
24-May-2012
End Date:
25-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, CQUniversity Performance Series, Free Stuff, Performances
Already a regular and feature on the CQUniversity Rockhampton campus, you can liven up your lunch break while enjoying the great sounds of jazz and popular music presented by staff, students and...
MAY
24
Jazz at the Frenchville
Start Date:
24-May-2012
End Date:
24-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Free Stuff, Nightlife, Performances
CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present Jazz at the Frenchville.
These great evenings of soulful live jazz are presented by the students of CQUniversity's Bachelor of...
MAY
25
JazzMania
Start Date:
25-May-2012
End Date:
25-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, CQUniversity Performance Series, Performances
CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present JazzMania.
This event brings together three of Australia's premier jazz musician's, Glen Hodges, Nathaniel Andrew and Hayley Cox....
MAY
26
Stuffing one of the world’s largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow. Local and overseas...
MAY
30
Namatjira
Start Date:
30-May-2012
End Date:
30-May-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
Namatjira is a Big Hart production, created with the Namatjira Family
The rich watercolours of Albert Namatjira's story are transformed into a momentous theatrical event in Namatjira, a...
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Rockhampton, QLD
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June 2012
APRIL
29
Rockhampton Eisteddfod
Start Date:
29-Apr-2012
End Date:
03-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Family Fun, Performances
The Rockhampton Eisteddfod held annually includes a packed program of speech, dance, vocal, piano and instrumental sections. Official programs will be on sale from the Pilbeam Theatre Box Office...
JUNE
02
Biddies
Start Date:
02-Jun-2012
End Date:
02-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
Biddies finds five ordinarily marvellous women back in their infants school classroom plying their needles in a good old-fashioned session of "stitch and bitch". Their confessions are frank, their...
JUNE
05
CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present Sarah Court and Matthew Marshall.
Internationally acclaimed New Zealand musicians Sarah Court and Matthew Marshall come together to...
JUNE
15
It only seems like yesterday but more than 50 years on The Delltones are still enchanting and energizing audiences with their highly exciting and colourful performances.
The Delltones with...
JUNE
19
Making their World Premiere season in Australia, Les Ballets Eloelle are bringing their new production "Men In Pink Tights" - the most talented and hilarious all-male comedy ballet ever. From the...
JUNE
22
Short & Sweet
Start Date:
22-Jun-2012
End Date:
23-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances
Now entering its tenth year, Short+Sweet Theatre is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world!
Held annually at the Newtown Theatre and NIDA Parade Theatres in Sydney, Chapel Off...
JUNE
23
Motherhood The Musical
Start Date:
23-Jun-2012
End Date:
23-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
Motherhood The Musical: The good, the bad and the laundry.
From the Australian Producer of Menopause The Musical® comes an equally hilarious, musical journey about the lives and friendships of...
JUNE
29
Cloudland
Start Date:
29-Jun-2012
End Date:
29-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
The lights dim, the music swells, and wrapped in the magical embrace of Cloudland, the dance begins.
An iconic Brisbane building for decades, the Cloudland ballroom was the focus of the city's...
JUNE
30
David Campbells Lets Go Tour
Start Date:
30-Jun-2012
End Date:
30-Jun-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances
David Campbell releases this summer's party album and announces an upcoming national tour. On the back of four top albums featuring tracks from Broadway through to 60s pop, David Campbell is...
JUNE
30
Three short plays about mining by Angela Betzien, Victoria Carless and Rod Ainsworth. Tales of the Underground explores the social impacts of mining through the experiences of three...
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Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
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July 2012
JULY
07
Shifting Sand
Start Date:
07-Jul-2012
End Date:
07-Jul-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
Shifting Sand is a new work composed by TaikOz member Graham Hilgendorf. Inspired by the beach and ocean, this is a powerful evocation of the ocean’s many faces.
TaikOz’s ethereal sounds,...
JULY
10
I Bunyip
Start Date:
10-Jul-2012
End Date:
10-Jul-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Performances
Do you know what a Bunyip is? What about a Yawk Yawk or the other fascinating creatures that live in Australia? Would you like to meet them? Created by Erth Visual and Physical Inc and developed...
JULY
27
The Crucible
Start Date:
27-Jul-2012
End Date:
28-Jul-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Performances
Toy Truck Productions presents The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Set in Salem during the historic Witch Hunts, the Crucible paints a story of the destruction of a many lives through mistrust, greed...
JULY
28
CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present the CQUniversity Schools Jazz Festival.
The CQUniversity Schools Jazz Festival provides an opportunity for high school students to...
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Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
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August 2012
AUGUST
09
In 1988 Graeme Connors released his landmark album North, and Queenslanders discovered a new voice - one of their own capturing the sights and sounds of their backyards and beaches.
The title...
AUGUST
11
The Mikado
Start Date:
11-Aug-2012
End Date:
11-Aug-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
The Mikado shows a world of forbidden love and delightful satire! A true romantic comedy, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is fresh, fun, and cheeky.
Set in a Japan that never actually existed,...
AUGUST
16
Adam Harvey
Start Date:
16-Aug-2012
End Date:
16-Aug-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances
Adam Harvey live at the Glenmore Tavern!
Adam Harvey is regarded as one of the best singers in the Country Music industry. After five albums and over 200,000 CD'S sold, it would seem that country...
AUGUST
24
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is internationally recognised as one of the world’s great piano competitions for up and coming pianists both individually and as soloists...
AUGUST
25
The Harbour Agency and the producers of the phenomenally successful ‘Rock Show’ – Sound One – proudly present Jon English, back bigger and better in 2012! Jon English has been working tirelessly...
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Rockhampton, QLD
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September 2012
SEPTEMBER
07
Caravan Burlesque
Start Date:
07-Sep-2012
End Date:
07-Sep-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live
Caravan Burlesque is created and directed by Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith
The globally acclaimed salon of seductive, subversive, and electrifying acts is here! From multi-award winning...
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Rockhampton, QLD
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October 2012
OCTOBER
25
Hairspray
Start Date:
25-Oct-2012
End Date:
28-Oct-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Performances
Rockhampton Musical Union Choir presents the multi award winning feel-good musical Hairspray. Set in the early 1960s in Baltimore, the story centres around Tracy Turnblad, a plump girl whose dream...
OCTOBER
30
Following their 2011 sell out performance of A Festival of Russian Ballet, the Imperial Russian Ballet company return to Australia with their presentation of the classic masterpiece “Sleeping...
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Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
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November 2012
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Rockhampton, QLD
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December 2012
DECEMBER
30
The Oxford Street Party
Start Date:
30-Dec-2012
End Date:
30-Dec-2012
Location:
Rockhampton, QLD
Event Type:
Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations, Nightlife, Performances
For the seventh consecutive year, The Oxford Street Party held in Rockhampton will host some of Australia's hottest acts. After sold-out crowds for the last five years organisers are pleased to...
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