BLACK SNAKE FESTIVAL - S. E. QLD

[Maureen K Clifford]

Marburg, just out from Ipswich in Queensland is the place to be on Saturday 14th June with Poets in the Park in the a.m. and Pacing at the Marburg Show Grounds in the p.m. Begin the day with a breakfast in the Marburg Community Park while being entertained by bush poets rhyming their tall stories. Poets in the Park includes a hearty and tasty breakfast prepared by the Marburg State School P&C Association. Bookings are essential for the breakfast if you want to eat. Tickets are available from the Marburg Post Office – phone 5464-4280.

Bush Poets in the Park
Anything for a morning lark.
A cooked breakfast under trees
On a plate, or on ya’ knees.
The tucker box dog – what a bark!
He’s in for this, wouldn’t miss
“Poets in the Park”


Denleigh Stenzel, along with a group of fellow poets will be entertain you, as well as performances by established poets whose feet are firmly in the Oz-bush / ballad genre, Denleigh is making a call for walk up poets and reciters of poems to put their name forward. The Black Snake Creek Festival Committee have a special interest in encouraging young performers to step up and have a go. If you are interested in performing publicly please phone Greg on 0428-328-930.

Conducted by the Marburg and District Residents Association and the Black Snake Creek Festival Committee, Poets in the Park is today a major lead-up to the Festival itself which will again bring Marburg to life on the second weekend in October. Poets in the Park remains a Festival event, reminding everyone of the forthcoming season and whetting the public appetite for the Festival in October.

[manfredvijars]

Would love to go, but will be in Billo. These are the festivals that need supporting ...