A new spring festival is take place in Glen Innes to augment the existing autumn events, the Celtic Festival and Minerama.
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It’s to be called the Vintage Rose Festival and will take place on Saturday, November 17.
The organiser, Suzi Botha, said it would involve a show of roses, possibly in vintage tea-cups but also a lot more entertainment, including one and perhaps two rockabilly bands.
“Bringing in rockabillies will appeal to older people who remember the music but also to the younger people who are into it now,” she said. The bands would play inthe Town Hall.
There would be swing dancing.
Suzi is the leader of the Kingdom 24 Ministry in Glen Innes, a church on Grey Street in the process of moving to Bourke Street.
She is also a florist who knows about roses.
Apart from flowers and music, there would be vintage cars and motorbikes and the usual accouterments to a festival like food stalls.
The idea was being discussed within the Glen Innes Highlands Visitor Association is to bring together existing events which coincide in November and brand the whole thing as the Rose Carnival.
According to Cathy Spry, the secretary of the association, it would be a “a celebration of all things vintage”.
She said: “There have been a number of individual clubs that have shown interest in the idea of holding a revived Rose Carnival as a Vintage Show in November.”
The events currently happening around that time of the year include: the Anglican Garden Walk; the vintage Machinery Display by the Vintage Machinery Club; Vintage Markets; Vintage Music and Dance in the Town Hall; Fashion Parade by Land of the Beardies History House; craft workshops, dress competitions, art shows; vintage films at the library.
