Doniya Behter Carnival
6-9pm Saturday 20th June 2026
Join us to celebrate Refugee Week! Doniya Behter Carnival mixes multicultural music, dance, food, art and craft, all on a mid-winter night! Doniya Behter is a free event with food and drinks at carnival prices.
Bec Sykes Pepperpot Magic Tour
Saturday 25th July
(Doors 7pm, support 7.30pm)
Rising Naarm/Melbourne-based dream
folk singer/songwriter Bec Sykes
(she/her) is playing her first-ever Bendigo
show as part of the Pepperpot Magic
Tour. An intimate performance featuring
piano, Sykes’ honeyed vocals and Ronan
Nicholson on pedal steel guitar, the duo
will perform songs from her Australian
Music Prize-nominated debut album
Pepperpot Magic, and preview the new
music she’s been creating since its
release.
https://events.humanitix.com/bec-sykes-
bendigo
Old Church Choir
7-8pm
With a focus on fun and getting everyone involved, no previous singing or reading music experience is needed. Coordinated by local musician Jono Levy. $15 a session or $12 concession. The bar will be open!
Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now
Fri 22nd May 2026 7.00pm (doors open)
Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now is the premiere collaboration of renowned storyteller/musician Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and actor/musician Penny Glass, performers who bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to this dramatic, uplifting and comical piece of storytelling theatre.
Tickets: $30
http://www.trybooking.com/DKHIQ
Skyscraper Stan and Oskar Herbig
Sat 9th May 2026 7 pm.
Skyscraper Stan and long time musical collaborator Oskar Herbig combine intricate lyrics, baritone vocals and whirling guitar lines in this journey through three studio albums and unreleased tracks. After a decade and a half of performing and recording together, the cousins are touring their unique duo show around Victoria. For the uninitiated, expect world class song writing, weaving guitars, tight harmony and plenty of laughs.
Tickets $20
https://events.humanitix.com/skyscraper-stan-and-oskar-herbig
PubSing
Fri 31st July | 7-9.30pm
PubSing is proud to present Voices for Reconciliation as part of the Reconciliation Australia annual national choirs project!
Growers’ Market
10am-12.00 pm 1st & 3rd Sun of the month
Come and buy locally grown, freshly harvested and delicious produce, as well as eggs, milk, honey and olive oil, direct from the grower to you. Supporting backyard and micro farmers in our region.
Contact Jonas: 0499 777 850
Bendigo Blues & Roots
Bendigo Blues & Roots Music Festival is a four day event of Blues and Roots performances and workshops throughout Bendigo and surrounding towns, the highlight of which is a day long family friendly concert featuring 16 acts over two stages in the picturesque Rosalind Park.
Since 2013 The Old Church on the Hill has hosted musicians throughout in conjunction with Bendigo Blues and Roots, providing a warm venue with an intimate, house gig feel. The Old Church is a relaxed space where artists have an opportunity to perform to an attentive audience who genuinely appreciate the music they hear.