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Goomeri’s Pumpkin Festival is expanding to a four-day event this year, and Emma Schneider, Kim Boyter, Jaimie Kriesch and her brother Wade couldn’t be happier … the group dressed in St Patrick’s Day colours for Sunday’s Twilight Markets to make the announcement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 18, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goomeri’s Pumpkin Festival will be expanding to a four-day event from May 23-26 this year, and introducing several new activities into the mix.<\/p>\n

Festival co-ordinator Kim Boyter announced the changes at Goomeri’s Twilight Markets on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Kim said the Festival – which has been running for 22 years – aims to deliver its biggest outing yet and one that will involve the whole town.<\/p>\n

The festival committee hopes to implement all-day highway closures for the first time, with detours in place so traffic can still flow around Goomeri as normal.<\/p>\n

The closures would allow the town’s entire CBD to be used for festival activities, as well as improve public safety at the popular annual event.<\/p>\n

They will also allow organisers to pack even more stall holders and entertainment into the CBD area.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Pumpkin Festival attracted an estimated 17,000 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A key aim of this year’s expansion will be to encourage festival-goers to come earlier and stay in the area longer.<\/p>\n

To do this, there will be a range of new events in the days leading up to main day on Sunday.<\/p>\n

They’ll include movie screenings, wine tastings, a pumpkin golf tournament and a Bollywood-style party.<\/p>\n

There’ll also be a Twilight Market on the Saturday afternoon to get guests into a festive mood.<\/p>\n

As usual, the main day – Sunday, May 26 – will get under way at 8:00am and feature all the original orange-themed favourites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These include the Great Australian Pumpkin Roll down Policeman’s Hill, Pumpkin Bowls, the Pumpkin Pageant and the Pumpkin Dash for Cash.<\/p>\n

There will also be food stalls, camel rides, face painting, jumping castles, fairy floss, acrobats and roving entertainers.<\/p>\n

These will be complemented by a pumpkin-themed street parade, mini pig races, silk dancers and a reptile display, along with celebrity chefs and live entertainment.<\/p>\n

The expanded Festival is being sponsored by Gympie Regional Council – which has doubled its support this year – along with Goomeri Country Hair, the Goomeri Bakery, Phyllis Hopf, Campbell Truck and Bobcat, and Dev’s Costumes.<\/p>\n

A thumbnail outline of the Festival’s 2019 program is now available on the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival<\/b><\/a> website.<\/p>\n

It will be detailed more extensively over coming weeks as the event draws closer.<\/p>\n

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Festival Co-Ordinator Kym Boyter made the announcement about the new format at Sunday’s St Patrick’s Day Twilight Markets, which the Festival committee hopes to make a regular quarterly event … Sunday’s outing attracted about 1000 people, despite the threat of a rainstorm which failed to eventuate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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