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Mackay Festivals

Locality: Mackay, Queensland

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25.01.2022 Get ready Mackay, New Years Eve at the MECC is almost here! Jade Fiyen Music Mackay Musical Comedy Players Inc. Sensory Circus Tribe (Mackay) ... Folks Like Us Free Face Painting Claddagh Irish Dancers Fireworks at Showgrounds This is a FREE ticketed event. Get your tickets now! https://bit.ly/2Vx3NYO

25.01.2022 Calling all Mackay local musicians! Don't forget to enter our musicians competition for a Social Media Makeover entries close Monday 31st of August! Is your social media in need of an upgrade?!... We have a very special giveaway as part of the Mackay Festival Sessions to help grow your audience and your following! Teaming up with Cherrie Hughes Social Media & Photography guru to give one lucky artist a social media makeover ! Enter here: https://bit.ly/2Xd2K1D #SupportLocal #MackayFestivalSessions

23.01.2022 Ever wanted to create your own toilet paper cannon? Or just looking for some free school holiday fun?! If the thought of cleaning up all that TP is not how you'd like to spend the school holidays then #SeeItLiveAtTheMECC Grab the kids for a Friday night of comedy and chaotic acrobatics during the September Weekender ... Chores will have the kids crying with laughter and the parents feeling like kids again! For tix deets https://bit.ly/31Pi8UF

22.01.2022 Mackay Festival Sessions - Episode 4

21.01.2022 ' Episode 4 features: The Base Coats, Tia Gostelow , Andrea Wright , Dance Avenue Mackay and lots more!... Get ready to #PressPlay! STREAM VIA: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/meccsales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mackayfestivals #supportlocal #mackayfestivalsessions #goingoutwithabang

17.01.2022 All of the paintings created during the live-streamed #MackayFestivalSessions at the MECC are now up for sale at Artist Collective Caneland! Pop down to Caneland Central and check out the dedicated window display! This beautiful creation by Catherine is on sale to the highest bidder! With all funds raised going to the SEQ Brumby Association Deadline is 4pm Friday 2nd October! Head to Catherine's Facebook page to bid and for further deets!... #SupportLocal

17.01.2022 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Thanks to the Artist Collective Caneland we have been able to experience a LIVE painting experience each week LIVE on stage. This Saturday from 6pm, we have Andrea Wright coming on to create a beautiful piece of art within 2 hours! ... All paintings will be available to purchase through the Artist Collective Caneland. STREAM VIA: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/meccsales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mackayfestivals #PressPlay #MackayFestivalSessions #WineAndRecline

16.01.2022 Discounted school holiday fun! Book your tickets on the lawn for this Friday nights performance of Chores at 50% off all this week! BE QUICK! https://bit.ly/31Pi8UF

14.01.2022 World music Legends MZAZA are back in Mackay for a performance on the night that would have been our annual celebration of multiculturalism in the Mackay community, Global Grooves. Join us on Saturday night with world music favourites MZAZA, for their brand new show, The Birth and Death of Stars Saturday 24 October, 7.30pm... More information https://bit.ly/2Fhg1jG See more

14.01.2022 The Mackay Festival Sessions comes to an end TOMORROW with a massive finale featuring 2019 Queensland Album of the year winner Tia Gostelow and The Base Coats a local, funky, fresh and original band made up of four friends from Mackay. Plus live dance performances from Dance Avenue Mackay and a live art masterpiece created by Andrea Wright thanks to the Artist Collective Caneland! Tune in from 6pm TOMORROW Saturday night via:... YouTube: http://ow.ly/nYOA50BbkmB Facebook: http://ow.ly/gnCR50BbkmC #PressPlay #SupportLocal #MackayFestivalSessions

11.01.2022 About last Saturday night Some snaps from the third episode of the Mackay Festival Sessions captured by Keeara and Reece Photography. Week 3 included spellbinding performances from Folks Like Us , and the talented Will Blume , Pasifik Flavas and an incredible art piece was created by Equine Art-Lian Meaney, which will be for sale at the Artist Collective Caneland! ... Tune in this Saturday from 6pm for the grand finale featuring Tia Gostelow and The Base Coats #MackayFestivalSessions #PlayLocal #SupportLocal

08.01.2022 Check this out New Year's Eve at the MECC. Free, Family, Fun! Book your free tickets, before it's too late!... https://bit.ly/2Vx3NYO See more

08.01.2022 ' Episode 3 features: Folks Like Us, Will Blume, Equine Art-Lian Meaney, Pasifik Flavas and more!... Get ready to #PressPlay! STREAM VIA: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/meccsales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mackayfestivals #supportlocal #mackayfestivalsessions

06.01.2022 Tonight! Celebrate New Year's Eve, at the MECC! Free, Family, Fun Live music, face painting, musical favourites and much more! Doors to the MECC open at 4.30pm, performance starts at 6pm. ... See you soon! https://bit.ly/2Vx3NYO

05.01.2022 Holy Moly! It's almost time for episode 3 of the Mackay Festival Sessions! This week, catch Folks Like Us and Will Blume on the MECC stage among dance performances from Pasifik Flavas and a live visual creation with Equine Art-Lian Meaney and lots more from 6pm Folks Like Us is a classically trained local trio, made up of Brendan Smith, Kathleen Campbell and Sarah Rozekrans, with an exciting sound that’s a blend of pop, folk and classical music.... Will Blume needs little introduction and has been performing in Mackay and throughout Queensland for years now. Simply head to Mackay Festivals or The MECC’s YouTube page to #PressPlay #MackayFestivalSessions #SupportLocal #MFS2020

05.01.2022 The Show Must Go On Though we're heartbroken this huge spectacular is unable to proceed, together with the Show Association we're doing everything we can to make sure both sets of fireworks will be going ahead! At 9pm and midnight cast your eyes to the sky Mackay!... Cross your fingers and toes that Goldilocks gets the perfect amount of rain for the fireworks to proceed! #NotTooMuch #NotTooLittle #JustttttttRight

05.01.2022 About last Saturday The Mackay Festival Sessions has wrapped up with a stunning exhibition of local talent last weekend! Featuring some of Mackay's finest including Tia Gostelow, The Base Coats, Dance Avenue Mackay and Andrea Wright painting a picturesque work of art, inspired by the regions local beaches, which will be for sale at Artist Collective Caneland ... If you missed it live, you can catch all 4 episodes via our Mackay Festivals page or the MECC YouTube Thanks to Keeara and Reece Photography for once again, capturing the night perfectly #PressPlay #SupportLocal #MackayFestivalSessions

04.01.2022 FINAL COMPETITION! This week is the MASSIVE 'Chicken Fiesta' giveaway, thanks to Y.A.W and Paget's Good Day Cafe & Catering by The Tuckerduck Pty Ltd. which includes: ... . This family pack serves 4 to 6, and is valued at $98.90! Register to win here: https://bit.ly/3gQuRuM #PressPlay #SupportLocal #MackayFestivalSessions

03.01.2022 Mackay Festival Sessions - EPISODE 3

02.01.2022 DANCER HIGHLIGHT This Saturday the talented dancers from Dance Avenue Mackay will be the final dance group to perform and close out the Mackay Festival Sessions! This is the very first time the dancers have had the opportunity to perform in 2020! ... Tune in from 6pm! STREAM VIA: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/meccsales Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mackayfestivals #PressPlay #SupportLocal #MackayFestivalSessions

02.01.2022 DANCER HIGHLIGHT Pasifik Flavaz - a performing arts troupe that show cases the traditions and cultures unique to the Cook Islands. As well as instilling a sense of pride and accomplishment within our own members, we encourage dancers to maintain traditional values with respect. Whanaungatanga translated means Working together as one team or family. ... Pasifik Flavaz members include those of Papua New Guinea, Thursday Islands, Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Australia and NZ Maori. All costumes are hand crafted, usually with local rauti or our own traditionally painted pareu, (sarong). Catch Pasifik Flavaz this Saturday streamed LIVE from the MECC! #MackayFestivalSessions #PressPlay #SupportLocal

02.01.2022 Hey Jazz Brunch-ians! Sad you missed out on all things Jazz AND Brunch? Well, the MECC has sorted you out for Sunday brunch in September, with some tasty musical morsels from none other than Karen Jacobsen #TheGPSGirl That's right, the voice of SIRI is taking you on a musical journey from Mackay to Manhattan on Sunday 27 September, the third and final day of a massive weekend of shows for the September Weekender at The MECC ... Tickets available https://bit.ly/3lxheUq

01.01.2022 Merry Christmas Mackay! Enjoy your day with friends and family