Tamworth Country Music Festival is 50 years old in 2022. As a celebration of this milestone, Tamworth Regional Gallery is presenting an exhibition, Take me home to Tamworth, that interprets Tamworth’s place at the heart of Australian country music. The exhibition surveys the many dimensions of the Tamworth Country Music Festival, with images and objects […]
The Paragliding Cross Country (XC) flying event is where pilots try and fly as far as possible for each of the 8 day event using rising currents of warm air called "thermals". By finding these thermals pilots can fly as far as southern Queensland or the Hunter Valley each day! Spectators are welcome at the […]
The biggest performance horse sale in the southern hemisphere, the 2022 Nutrien Classic Campdraft and Sale, returns to AELEC from Thursday, 27 January to Sunday, 6 February. The event kicks off with the incentive campdraft and challenge events including the showcase event, the Classic, for horses aged five years and under bought at the sale […]
Over 150 years ago, 13 brave Aboriginal men in Western Victoria picked up their cricket bats and embarked on a treacherous voyage to England and into the unknown – all in the name of sport. Risking illness and persecution, Australia’s first international cricket team – including Australia's first Indigenous sporting hero, Johnny Mullagh – amazed […]
