Parents of young children will find a place to relax at the Children’s Zone in Weeroona Park during the 2020 Apple and Grape Harvest Festival.   The Children’s Zone will be open from 10am-5pm on 7 & 8 March – coinciding with the Heritage Bank Food & Wine Fiesta!   The Children’s Zone is right near the…

Stanthorpe resident Kerry Stratford has retained bragging rights as the best apple peeler in the Granite Belt, winning the prize for longest continuous apple peel for the seventh time.

Stanthorpe will again be hosting a regional competition for the Australian National Busking Championships™ in 2020, being staged on the first Saturday of the 10-day Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival. This event will be Stanthorpe’s fourth annual Australian Busking Championship South-East Queensland Regional Finals and it will be all happening on Saturday 23rd March. The…

It’s called ‘Banchetto Italiano’ (Italian Banquet) and by popular demand it’s doubling in size in 2020! The Italian long lunch is a highlight of the first festival weekend and festival-goers will be pleased to learn that it will double in size for double the fun on Sunday 1st March 2020! Moving to a bigger new…

Many thanks to Bob Swaine for supplying these historical photos of previous festivals.