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The Avon Descent is a two day, 134km race down the Avon and Swan Rivers (Northam to Perth) in a variety of paddle and power craft.
There are numerous spectator viewing points, and some festivals in the towns along the way and start and finish spots!
An overview…. see the Avon Descent website for much more detail (such as access, parking, shuttle busses).
FRIDAY
Northam’s Avon River Festival - 6pm till late
SATURDAY
Toodyay International Food Festival – 10am to 4pm
Best Vantage Points Day One
Start Line - Northam - Ppower craft from 8.00am and paddlers from 8.50am.
Katrine Bridge
Extracts Weir - Power craft from about 8.30am, paddlers from 10.30am.
Duidgee Park, Toodyay - excellent viewing point, commentary, Food Festival from 10 to 4.
West Toodyay Bridge and Ti Trees checkpoint
Wetherall Reserve
Finish Day 1 - Cobblers Pool Campsite
SUNDAY
City of Swan’s Family Fun Day - Sandalford Wines, Caversham - 11am to 3pm
City of Belmont’s Family Fun Day -Garvey Park, Fauntleroy Avenue, Ascot - 11.30am to 3.30pm
City of Bayswater’s Finish Line Event - Riverside Gardens, Bayswater - 11am to 6pm
Best Vantage Points Day Two
Start Day 2 - Cobbler Pool -7:00am for paddle craft - 12:00pm for power craft.
Emu Falls - Paddlers from 7.30am, power craft from 12.15 pm.
Walyunga National Park - Paddlers from 10am, power craft from 1pm.
Bells Rapid - most popular. Shuttle bus from Brigadoon Equestrian Centre. Entry is $10 per vehicle.
Sandalford Winery - City of Swan Picnic in the Park with lots of entertaiment - Paddlers from about 11.30am and Power Boats from about 1.10pm.
Finish Line - Riverside Gardens, Bayswater - from 11.30am - lots of entertainment, screens, ‘community day’. Presentations commence at 4.00pm in the main marquee arena!
The Wave Rock Weekender, a small camping and music festival held at Wave Rock (a few hundred km’s east of Perth) is on again in 2008, held from Saturday 27 September to Monday 29 September (Queens Birthday public holiday).
Line-up:
The Audreys
jackson jackson
Magic Dirt
Kill Devil Hills
Day of the Dead
Abbe May & Rockin Pneumonia
Sunshine Brothers
Dave McCormack
Schvendes
Mink Mussel Creek
Abbe May solo
TinPan Orange
Sneaky Weasel Gang
Tame Impala
DJ Charlie Bucket
The event also features a 24 hour cinema program, 24 hour food, a 50m round & 6m deep therapeutic salt pond where you can float like a cork without moving a muscle, incredible rock walks, some of Australia’s best stargazing and of course the authentic Aussie bush.
Wave Rock Weekender is……
- an authentic all-weekend, long-weekend experience.
- an intimate capacity 800 show set in and around the Wave Rock Caravan Park that the town let us take over for the weekend.
- a place where toilets, showers, food and bar access are never a problem
- not an English country garden festival or sports oval event – it’s in beautiful salty, scrubby, bushy Australia on the edge of the desert featuring; prehistoric rock formations, eerie salt plains, shiny salmon gums, wildflowers and big, big sky. Let the music bring it alive.
Tickets go on sale Monday 11 August from www.soulhighway.com.au.
Westdale Rock is being held again on Saturday 25 October 2008 in Westdale, which is located about an hour and a half east of Perth.
The line-up:
Grinspoon
The Angels
V-Delli
Hells/Bells
J-Babies
Battlecat
No Way Out
Switchback
There will also be the WA Burnout Comp, Westdale Sand Drags, WA Tattoo Show, Wet tshirt competitions, Dancing girls between acts, etc!
Gates open at 7:00am on Saturday, and the last band performs at dawn on Sunday 26 October. There is overnight camping available, and it’s an outside concert.
Food available to buy, byo alcohol (no glass), 18+.
Tickets on sale from BOCS for $85.00.
The highlights of what’s on in Perth, Western Australia, from Monday 28 July to Sunday 3 August 2008.
Please submit events you think should be listed. Have a good week!
MUSIC
The Presets at Metropolis Freo - 27/28 July
Maurice Fulton and Instistubes Paris Terror Club at Shape on Monday 28 July
The Breeders at Capitol on Wednesday 30 July
Rick Price at Friends Restaurant on 30 July
TZU in WA from 30 July to 3 August
The Fratellis at Capitol on Thursday 31 July
Chocolate Martini at The Bakery on 31 July
James Morrison and Friends at the Perth Concert Hall on Friday 1 August
MSTRKRFT at Ambar on 1 August (sold out)
The Wombats at Capitol on 2 August
Birds of Tokyo - Live at the Wireless for triple j at the Fly By Night from 2pm on 3 August
Browse the Perth Concerts List occasionally for gigs further into the future, I don’t write individual articles for all of them!
MISCELLANEOUS
GO3 Electronic & Entertainment Expo at Perth Convention Exhibition Centre from Friday 1 July to Sunday 3 August
Avon Descent on 2 and 3 August (Starting in Northam on Saturday, finishing in Perth on Saturday) - lots of events along the way (Tooday Food Festival, Family Fun Day at Sandalford Wines, Family Fun Day at Garvey Park, Ascot, Community Day and Finish Line event at Riverside Gardens, Bayswater.
The Mundaring Truffle Festival on 2 and 3 August (in Mundaring, just outside Perth on Gt Eastern Hwy)
WA Craft Quilt & Stitch Show on 1, 2 and 3 August at Claremont Showgrounds
City of Perth Winter Arts Festival from 1 June to 31 August
The Leonardo da Vinci Machines Exhibition at Riverside Drive near the Esplanade Train Station from Friday 28 March to 12 October (extended!).
PERFORMING ARTS
The Pitch by Black Swan Theatre Company and Critical Stages at Subiaco Arts Centre from 22 July to 2 August
Ballet at the Regal at the Regal Theatre from 31 July to 2 August
The Barber of Seville by West Australian Opera at His Majesty’s from 2 to 16 August
Speed-The-Plow by Perth Theatre Company from 19 July to 2 August
City of Perth Winter Arts Festival from 1 June to 31 August
For other (local) theatre productions, see the Taz Entertainment website
The annual York Jazz Festival is on again on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 October 2008, in the small town York, about 100kms east of Perth.
The festival has new organisers, and it’s become a bigger and better!
The transformation is complete! York Jazz & Soul Festival announces the best line-up of jazz talent ever assembled in Western Australia. The artist lineup offers international, national and local legends, masters, maestros and the best emerging jazz talent in Australia.
It happens in the middle of Spring across 7 wonderful stages which are all complemented by the authentic vintage backdrop offered by the historic town of YORK in wildflower season, gourmet food and beverages, poker, markets and more.
Artists performing include:
JOHN SCOFIELD (USA)
JOE LOVANO (USA)
ROY AYERS (USA)
ERNEST RANGLIN (JAMAICA)
JAMES MORRISON
VINCE JONES
LIOR
ELANA STONE BAND
JULIEN WILSON TRIO
KONRAD PASZKUDZKI
+ NOSTALGIA 77 (UK) + LOST AND FOUND with GRABOWSKY/OEHLERS/BECK + VOID + HIP MO TOAST + CARL MACKEY QUARTET + SAM ANNING QUINTET + TIM JAGO QUARTET + TROY ROBERTS TRIO + JAMES SANDON QUARTET + JOHANNES LUEBBERS + RETROSONICS + G5G + SCOPE + JOHANNES LUEBBERS DECTET + THE HOUNDS + RUSSEL HOLMES TRIO + GRAHAM WOOD TRIO + GLYN MCDONALD + SARAH MCKENZIE TRIO + TOM O’HALLORAN TRIO + OFFBEAT PT 1 + BEBOP SPOKEN HERE + THE STEVEDORES + THE MAGIC OF COLE PORTER + PADDY FITZALLEN QUINTET + POWERHOUSE JAZZ BAND + CORNERHOUSE JAZZ BAND + DANGEROUS CURVES PT 1 + THE FIX
See the artist profiles on the website! And there’s more to be announced!
An agreement with the Shire of York sees control of the event being handed to Western Australian based festival and event maestros Supersonic Enterprises from 2008
The event is also picking the brains of WA’s potent jazz and music community through organizations such as JazzWA, Perth Jazz Society, Jazz Club of WA and Funk Club to ensure we identify and secure the best possible combination of local, national and international jazz and soul artists for the event.
Tickets on sale Friday 18 July from www.yorkjazz.com.au ; 78 Records Perth & York Visitors Centre, York