April 9, 2015
The Nanango Showground has been a hive of activity ahead of Saturday’s show.
It’s being prepared to receive thousands of visitors this Friday and Saturday for the 106th annual Nanango Show, and the Nanango Show Society are hoping for fine weather and bumper crowds.
This year’s Show will feature several innovations – including the return of harness racing events (ie trotting) on Saturday after an absence of 14 years – but all the old favourites will be there as well.
On Friday, judges will be hard at work judging pavilion entries, cattle and dogs.
And in the evening, Young Judges and Young Handlers were put through their paces with dairy cattle and stud beef.
But the real action will occur on Saturday (April 11), the Show’s main public day.
Apart from horse, poultry and dairy goat judging in the morning and pavilions full of entries to explore, there’ll be a jam-packed free entertainment program running all day, with a special focus on keeping the youngsters amused.
This year the Show will be hosting Peppa and George Pig, the Farmer Rob Show, and Bubble Muffins Kids Cooking.
Adults will enjoy the South Burnett Sausage King Challenge (at 10:30am), the Alpaca Collective Fashion Parade (at 11:30am) or El Jay Freestyle Entertainment (performances at 11:30am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm and 7:30pm).
Traditional attractions like woodchopping, a ute muster, show jumping, sideshows, chainsawing and horse ring events should also be crowd-pleasers.
And expect big horticulture, farm and garden, cookery and school displays in the pavilions, along with the Young Chef Culinary Competition.
The Show’s official opening will be performed by Tarong Power Stations Manager Dennis Franklin this year and will be followed by the Grand Parade at 2:00pm, and then the popular Rodeo at 3:00pm, which will include the Young Farmers’ Challenge.
As usual, a licensed bar and barbecue will be operating all day, and there’ll be plenty of other food stalls around the grounds as well.
There’ll also be a Vintage Car Rally at 5:00pm; a giant fireworks display sponsored by Heritage Nanango Community Bank at 8:00pm; and live entertainment from Don Costa from 8:30pm along with a Demolition Derby out in the main ring.
Admission to this year’s Nanango Show is $12 for adults and $6 for pension card holders and children over 14. Children under 14 accompanied by a paying adult are admitted free, otherwise they’ll pay $6 too.
The full entertainment program for this year’s Nanango Show appears below, and you can obtain a PDF version you can print off and take along with you to the Show by clicking here.
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2015 Nanango Show Entertainment Program
