Coming Events ...
WINE FESTIVAL - SUNDAY 31st August 2008
Doors Open 10:00 am - Entry Fee: $5.00 per adult (inc. 6 tastings) - Children FREE
TIMETABLE
10:00 am to 5.00 pm Jumping Castle
11:00 am Tastings begin to 5:00 pm
11:00 am to 4:00 pm Stalls open
11:30 Winery Tour
12:00 to 5:00pm Lunch available
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Marsh Rodders display - Possibility (not confirmed)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Llamas available
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Marchese Duo - Folk Musicians - Roving Performers
3:00 pm Winery Tour
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Pete the Magician - Roving Performer
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Recent Events ...
Dinner Dance featuring Ricketty Bridge Saturday - 12th July 2008
Commencing 7.30 pm
Tickets $20-00 adults - $10-00 children
Dinner available from 6.30 pm - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Ricketty Bridge
Folk music brought us together but we soon found lots of other flavours, spices and stories bubbling underneath. We let our voices and fingers follow our hearts and now we are world travellers.
The Players
Matt Rees is the voice and guitarist with Ricketty Bridge. His roots are in Folk, Country and Rock’n’Roll, so you may find him playing bangolin and crooning in French. Matt has played with various bands and as a solo performer. Matt’s easy going style and unique interpretation puts him at the heart of Ricketty Bridge.
David Arblaster plays a variety of wind instruments, melodeon and piano accordion. He has played medieval madrigals and traditional old English melodies on recorders for many years. A desire to play a broader range of music (and to play an instrument he doesn’t have to blow into!) has lead to that pleasantly frustrating instrument, the melodeon.
These days, Henry Vyhnal just sticks to violin - sometimes masquerading as fiddle (Irish, American and Gypsy styles). In previous musical incarnations, Henry was a free jazz improviser, an orchestral and chamber musician, a country and western scratcher and a punk rocker. Occasionally the old personalities drop by….
Sam Thorpe is the newest member and his double bass playing has brought our sound together in ways we could not have imagined.
As percussionist and singer Mickey Lisieux is the femme fatale of the group, evoking the exuberant traditions of folk, Latin, Mid-eastern, gypsy, and Klezmer with her little world of musical instruments.
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CARNEVALE ... Sunday 15th June 2008 - 10.00 am. to 5.00 pm
The opening of the Salami Season and all things Pig!
Enjoy a continental sausage sizzle
Suckling Roast Pork spit,
Winter Meat lover’s Pizza
Salami and other meat and pork products,
from Old Style Organic,
Entertainment by the Marcese Duo
Fun for all the family!
CARNEVALE is one of the most exciting and most anticipated festival in Italy dating back to Roman Times.
Carnevale is the final festivity before the commencement of the 40 days of Lent, during which time Catholics, in earlier times, abstained from eating meat.
For the most part, in days gone by, eating meat was something of a luxury.
The Festival therefore, was used as an excuse to get one’s fill of meat- at least once a year!
“CARNEVALE” begins on the Epiphany (January 6th) and continues through to Shrove Tuesday.
Now in the Northern Hemisphere this period coincides with the middle of winter and an ideal time for those raising pigs to make their salamis, and smoked meat products to use throughout the year.
A great combination for a Festival - an availability of meat and an excuse to eat up before the Lenten fasting begins!
In the Southern Hemisphere, January of course is in the middle of Summer.
So does this mean we are going to miss out on the fun?? - NO!
We will have “Carnevale”
at BACCHUS HILL WINERY on Sunday 15th June 2008
We are most fortunate in our area to have ‘OLD STYLE ORGANIC”, of Myrniong,
a producer of
Organic Pork Smallgoods and Fresh Meats,
who loves our idea of CARNEVALE
Anthony and Tina are enthusiastically co-operating and collaborating with us to make this a most successful Festa.
Most organic smallgood products will be available for purchase and tasting (where appropriate).
There will be a suckling on the spit, a continental style sausage sizzle, a great array of smoked meats and of course our extremely popular Winter Meat Lover’s Pizza.
Musical Entertainment will be provided by the Marcese duo, who will entertain with folk songs and piano accordion music.
We will have it all for your enjoyment:-
Great Wine,
Great Food,
Good Cheer and Entertainment, the rest is up to YOU!
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“Autumn in Bacchus” - Chestnut and Olive Harvest Festa - Sunday 20th April
WE will be promoting two workshops
11.00 am. How to preserve your green olives
3.00 pm How to preserve your black olives
Freshly Roasted Chestnuts and a glass of wine will be available for $10-00
Olive tastings from our provender product will also be available
Menu for the day will include combinations of chestnut and olives predominantly.
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Bacchus Marsh Harvest Festival - Sunday 9th March 2008 (from 10.00am)
Enjoy a
Vintage Tour at 12.30pm
Grape Stomping Competition at 2.30pm
Apple Pie Competition Judging at 11.00am
FRESH GRAPE JUICE, GRAPE FOCCACIA’S, LUNCH ALL DAY
PLUS ART, Music & 7 stalls
A fun day for all the family!!!
Enjoy a day exploring the delights of Bacchus Marsh during Harvest time
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Jazz Concert: with Pugsley Buzzard - Saturday 1st March '08
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Pugsley Buzzard has been booked for a concert
Dinner and Concert packages will be available - details will be provided closer to the date.
Concert tickets only will be $20.00 adults $10.00 children
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
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Valentine’s Day Dinner - Thursday 14th February '08 (from 6.30pm)
TREAT that special person in your life to a Romantic, candlelit. - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
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Australia Day Dinner & Blues Concert - Saturday 26th January '08
(featuring Andy "Sugarcane" Collins)
Concert commencing at 7.30 pm - Tickets: $20-00 adults & $10-00 children
DINNER AVAILABLE FROM 6.30 PM - BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Sugarcane Collins
All the way from Cape York in the hot and humid
tropical far north of Australia, where the rainforest meets the reef
and where there are only two seasons, wet and dry, comes Andy "Sugarcane"
Collins. With fire, skill, passion & commitment
Sugarcane plays his acoustic guitars with a driving rhythmic swing a
nd sings powerfully with the big heart of a bluesman. Inspired by the
slashing delta blues of Charley Patton & Son House, the joyous ragtime
guitar of Blind Blake and the powerful songster traditions of
Leadbelly, his songs are filled with deep emotional content and like
the best of the early bluesmen, Collins is an exceptional
storyteller. » read more |
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AUSTRALIA DAY BBQ
on Monday 28th JANUARY 2008
(from 12.00 Noon)
Menu: Gourmet sausages, hamburgers, steaks, salads etc,
Come one, come all, come hungry
and buy all you can enjoy!!
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