Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival
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Music, food, art and more
Highlights of this year’s Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival have been revealed. An exciting range of ticketed events from March 26 to April 25 include everything from celebrations of food and wine to talented arts creators. Cidersong Autumn Picnic iswhere live music, singing, food and cider combine at the beautiful heritage apple orchard at DV Cider. Macedon…
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Volunteers bring rainbow love
Do you love dogs and people and all things rainbow? The organisers of Puppy Pride 2022 are looking for a team of volunteers for this inaugural event to celebrate the LGBTIQA+ community and their pooches with a day out at the Kyneton Botanical Gardens. As part of the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival, which runs from…
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Characters from another world
The Gardeners are a pair of characters from another world. It is as if they have emerged from a remote rural property of another time. They are the latest creations of Macedon Ranges artists Tamara Rewse and Hamish Fletcher, who have made their living through puppetry and performance. Soon to be crafted to life, The…
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Festival fail – Tourism drawcard leaves much to be desired
This year’s Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival wound up in the gutter with the leaves, local residents have complained.The festival, aiming to boost tourism and local trade earlier this year, has been criticised for being “poorly developed, poorly communicated and lacking in business participation”. “[It] left the community as a whole bewildered. We have to do…
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Autumn festival for Ranges
An inaugural Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival aims to put a spotlight on everything great about the Ranges to draw people back to the region. Macedon Ranges Council’s director of planning and environment Angela Hughes said the council had been looking for new and exciting ways to work with local businesses and support economic recovery as…