The Tenterfield Food and Wine Festival will be held on Saturday at the Memorial Hall from 10am to 4pm.
The $27 entry fee includes $10 funny money and a souvenir wine glass.
A wonderful seven-piece jazz band plus vocalist will perform at the festival. Each musician is very well known in the Australian jazz world. The jazz band played at Mingoola after the floods and members of that audience were still tapping their toes two weeks later.
Local singers and musicians will perform when the jazz band takes a break.
There are plenty of local businesses that will be involved in the festival including Deetswood wine, Kurrajong Downs Vineyard, Reedy Creek Estate wines, Splitters Swamp vineyard, Wright Robertson of Glencoe, Zappa-Dumaresq Vineyard, Coco Thai, Comquats Deli and Cafe, Green Tree Frog Teas, Mistral Hill, Olives of Beaulieu, Premier Meats, Tenterfield Bakery and The Coachman Coffee Lounge.
The Mole and Sovereign Rivers Red Cross and Tenterfield High School students will also participate in the festival.
Other events to be held include a wine blending dinner at 6pm tomorrow at the Telegraph Hotel; wine tasting by Ken of Splitters Swamp 6pm tomorrow and Saturday at the Best Western Motel; Tenterfield Amateur Dramatic Group will host a barbecue 7.30pm Saturday and 5pm Sunday at a cost of $15 per event; a Sunday Roast lunch at “Deloraine”; Tenterfield Show and Shine Car show 9am until 3pm Sunday at Rugby League Park $5 each or $10 a family; TEN FM from the “field” markets in Bruxner Park from 8am; and Kurrajong Downs – Jazz in the Vineyards on Sunday, Casino Road, Tenterfield.
“Oakland” 193 East Street, “Glenrock” Washpool Creek and “Carrigbyone” 163 Geyers Road will open their gardens to the public from 10am to 5pm both Saturday and Sunday.
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