# Festivals in Rockhampton | Cultural Events & Fairs

- **Subtitle**: Explore upcoming festivals in  Rockhampton. Discover cultural celebrations, street fairs and seasonal events happening across the city. Join the festivities.
- **Category**: Festivals
- **Type**: category

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## Festivals Events in Rockhampton

- **Event Name**: Sunny Side Up - Rockhampton
  - **Description**: ROCKHAMPTON — we are bringing the party to you!

Friday Aug 28th, we’re transforming the Great Western Hotel into a full indoor music festival experience featuring Australian dance music icons Sneaky Sound System alongside an all-star lineup of Savage , K
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  - **Date**: Fri Aug 28 2026 at 08:00 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/sunny-side-up-rockhampton/200030068355305
  - **Venue**: Great Western Hotel
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  - **Categories**: festivals, music-festivals, entertainment, music, parties, kids
- **Event Name**: PNAU - THE NIRVANA TOUR
  - **Description**: Across decades of boundary-pushing releases, chart success and global collaborations, PNAU have established themselves as one of Australia’s most influential electronic acts. Born out of Sydney’s underground clubs and now based in Los Angeles, Nick Little
  - **Interested Audience**:
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  - **Date**: Thu Jun 25 2026 at 09:30 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/pnau-the-nirvana-tour/200029936741450
  - **Venue**: Leichhardt Hotel
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- **Event Name**: Smoked - Rockhampton
  - **Description**: 🔥 SAVE THE DATE - MORE INFO COMING SOON 🔥

Get ready for the ultimate weekend of BBQ, bands, and all-around festival vibes! Smoked is back in Rockhampton for 2027, bringing together the best of slow-cooked meats, ice-cold craft beers, and live music to ke
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  - **Date**: Fri Feb 05 2027 at 07:00 am – Sat Feb 06 2027 at 01:00 pm (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/smoked-rockhampton/200029684507451
  - **Venue**: Rockhampton Showgrounds
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  - **Categories**: music, festivals, entertainment, live-music, food-truck-festivals, music-festivals
- **Event Name**: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
  - **Description**: Australia’s biggest comedy festival is hitting the road and bringing the laughs to you!

Join the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow as it journeys around Australia, delivering hot and tasty comic treats to audiences near and far. With a cu
  - **Date**: Fri Jun 26 2026 at 09:30 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-roadshow/200029681128318
  - **Venue**: Cnr Victoria Parade and Cambridge Street, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4700
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  - **Categories**: comedy, festivals, art, theatre
- **Event Name**: The Hillbilly Goats Show Rockhampton
  - **Description**: YEEHAW! Them Hillbilly Goats are hitchin’ up the wagon and rollin’ into town – and they’re bringin’ a boot-stompin’, washboard-slappin’, banjo-blazin’ hoedown that’ll blow the roof clean off the barn!

These here Goats ain’t no backyard pickers – they’re
  - **Date**: Sat Jun 20 2026 at 07:00 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/the-hillbilly-goats-show-rockhampton/200030100180550
  - **Venue**: Walter Reid Arts Centre
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  - **Categories**: Music, Entertainment, Festivals
- **Event Name**: 2026 Capricorn Claws Home Round - proudly supported by Stanwell Power Station
  - **Description**: We're coming home!

Join us for the 2026 Capricorn Claws Home Round proudly supported by Stanwell Power Station at CQUniversity on 13 & 14th June. 

This will be a weekend not to be missed, join for an action-packed weekend, showing off the best netba
  - **Date**: Fri Jun 12 2026 at 11:00 pm – Sun Jun 14 2026 at 02:00 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/2026-capricorn-claws-home-round-proudly-supported-by-stanwell-power-station/200030100177737
  - **Venue**: CQ University Rockhampton
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- **Event Name**: Manhattan Short Film Festival (Rockhampton)
  - **Description**: SAVE THE DARE to experience the 29th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival in Rockhampton!

Rocky Flix Inc. proudly presents the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival on Saturday 3 October 2026 at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre.

Join over 100,000 film lovers in
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    - Count: 32
  - **Date**: Sat Oct 03 2026 at 04:00 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/manhattan-short-film-festival-rockhampton/200029502218604
  - **Venue**: Walter Reid Cultural Centre, Cnr Derby St & East Street, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4700
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  - **Categories**: entertainment, festivals, art, theatre, storytelling
- **Event Name**: Yule Ritual Gathering & Feast
  - **Description**: 🔥 YULE – A Celebration of Light 🔥

📅 Friday 19th June @ 6pm
(Traditionally celebrated on the Winter Solstice — 21st June)

Gather with us under the winter night sky for a deeply meaningful celebration of Yule — the first sabbat of the Witches’ Year.

Taki
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  - **Date**: Fri Jun 19 2026 at 08:00 am – Fri Jun 19 2026 at 11:00 am (+10:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockhampton/yule-ritual-gathering-and-feast/200030100179244
  - **Venue**: Splendiferous
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## Trending Events in Rockhampton

- **Event Name**: Jim Jefferies: Son of a Carpenter - Australia 2026 | Rockhampton: Great Western Hotel
  - **Description**: Australia’s global comedy heavyweight, Jim Jefferies will bring his internationally acclaimed Son of a Carpenter tour home in 2026 for a huge run of dates across the country, hitting arenas and theatres this July and August.
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  - **Venue**: Great Western Hotel
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- **Event Name**: Guy Sebastian in Rockhampton
  - **Description**: 🎤 Experience Guy Sebastian Live at Pilbeam Theatre on Thursday, October 1, 2026! 🎤
The countdown has begun! Guy Sebastian is taking over Pilbeam Theatre on Thursday, October 1, 2026, and with hits l
  - **Venue**: Pilbeam Theatre
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- **Event Name**: Rockhampton, QLD | Freestyle Kings LIVE - World Tour
  - **Description**: First event inside Rockhampton's new stadium, Browne Park! The ultimate adrenaline-fueled family event — Freestyle Kings LIVE!

The 2026 Freestyle Kings LIVE World Tour, the greatest show on two wheels, launches in Australia with a spectacle so big it c
  - **Venue**: Brown Park Rockhampton
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- **Event Name**: Kevin Bloody Wilson - Aussie Icon Tour
  - **Description**: DOORS OPEN : 5 PM
SHOW STARTS : 6:30 PM

Just back from a sold out UK and Ireland tour, much loved comedian and singer/songwriter Kevin Bloody Wilson is set to embark on his new “Aussie Icon Tour” performing his funniest songs, hilarious stories and shoot
  - **Venue**: 39 Stanley Street, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4700
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- **Event Name**: Sunny Side Up - Rockhampton
  - **Description**: ROCKHAMPTON — we are bringing the party to you!

Friday Aug 28th, we’re transforming the Great Western Hotel into a full indoor music festival experience featuring Australian dance music icons Sneaky Sound System alongside an all-star lineup of Savage , K
  - **Venue**: Great Western Hotel
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- **Event Name**: The Wolfe Brothers
  - **Description**: For the first time ever, The Wolfe Brothers are coming to Leichhardt Hotel on Friday 5th June.

With a career that has gone from breakout stars to country music royalty, The Wolfe Brothers have become one of Australia’s most celebrated live acts. Since fi
  - **Venue**: Leichhardt Hotel
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- **Event Name**: 30th Anniversary CapRescue Ball presented by QMAG
  - **Description**: Friday 24th July | Rockhampton Leagues Club

The biennial CapRescue Charity Ball returns in 2026, celebrating 30 years of dedicated service to Central Queensland. For three decades, CapRescue has been committed to keeping our community safe—responding rap
  - **Venue**: Rockhampton Leagues Club
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- **Event Name**: PNAU - THE NIRVANA TOUR
  - **Description**: Across decades of boundary-pushing releases, chart success and global collaborations, PNAU have established themselves as one of Australia’s most influential electronic acts. Born out of Sydney’s underground clubs and now based in Los Angeles, Nick Little
  - **Venue**: Leichhardt Hotel
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- **Event Name**: BUSBY MAROU — ROCKHAMPTON — GREAT WESTERN HOTEL
  - **Description**: The Great Western. Rockhampton. Need we say more?

If there is one venue in this country that carries the full weight of what Busby Marou is about — where we come from, what we're made of, what live music means to a regional town — it's this one. We're br
  - **Venue**: Great Western Hotel
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## FAQs

- **Q**: What are the top Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** Sunny Side Up - Rockhampton (Fri Aug 28 2026 at 08:00 am at Great Western Hotel), PNAU - THE NIRVANA TOUR (Thu Jun 25 2026 at 09:30 am at Leichhardt Hotel), Smoked - Rockhampton (Fri Feb 05 2027 at 07:00 am at Rockhampton Showgrounds), Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow (Fri Jun 26 2026 at 09:30 am at Cnr Victoria Parade and Cambridge Street, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4700), The Hillbilly Goats Show Rockhampton (Sat Jun 20 2026 at 07:00 am at Walter Reid Arts Centre).
- **Q**: How can I find Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** You can discover upcoming Festivals events in Rockhampton on AllEvents.in. Browse by date, venue, or price to find events that match your interests.
- **Q**: How do I buy tickets for Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** You can buy tickets directly through AllEvents.in. Many events offer online booking with options for free, paid, and early-bird tickets.
- **Q**: What are the popular venues for Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** Some popular venues hosting Festivals events in Rockhampton include Great Western Hotel, Leichhardt Hotel, Rockhampton Showgrounds.
- **Q**: Who are the top organizers for Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** Popular organizers hosting Festivals events in Rockhampton include Sunny Side Up Events, Pnau, Smoked Festival.
- **Q**: Are there any online Festivals events available?
  - **A:** Yes, many Festivals events are available online. You can filter for virtual events on AllEvents.in to attend from anywhere.
- **Q**: How can I get notified about new Festivals events in Rockhampton?
  - **A:** Follow the Festivals category on AllEvents.in to get notified when new Festivals events are listed in Rockhampton.

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