9 February 2010

2010 Major Festival Sponsors 2010 Entry Fees Entry to Wine & Food In The Park 2010 is a slim $10 if you're over 18 and completely free if you're under 18 (over-18s get a special wrist band that allows them to make bar purchases). This means a family of 4 or more can attend for just $20. What a bargain!!! Find out more about us on: South Burnett Wine South Burnett Tourism South Burnett Online South Burnett Biz

It's On Again So.... Bring A Friend! The 12th annual South Burnett Wine & Food In The Park Festival will be held at Memorial Park in Kingaroy - right in the heart of Queensland's newest wine region - from 10:00am to 9:00pm on Saturday 13th March 2010. This year the Festival is more exciting than ever with a h-u-g-e line-up of live entertainment all through the day and late into the night. At this year's Wine & Food In The Park you can: sample great wines from the South Burnett's leading multi award winning wineries watch top Brisbane chefs cook up a storm in the PCA Regional Cuisine Cook-offs be entertained by 10 non-stop hours of live music from some of Australia's top music acts be amused by incredible street entertainers or try any of the wide variety of foods available on-site. Our site will tell you everything you need to know about who's exhibiting at this year's Festival. You can also obtain this year's complete entertainment schedule. And if you're visiting the South Burnett for the weekend, find out how to get here and how to make your stay as carefree and enjoyable as possible too. Click here to find out more.... Latest Festival News 2010 VIP Marquee Restaurant Menus Now Available! 9th February 2010: Ever since 2007 the Wine & Food In The Park Festival has run a VIP Marquee Restaurant just next to the Giant Wine Tent to allow guests to sit down to a gourmet restaurant lunch or dinner right in the heart of the Festival. Our VIP Marquee Restaurant is run by Bruce and Kelly from the Kingaroy Hotel-Motel, which is renowned as one of the best eateries in the South Burnett. Bruce and Kelly love South Burnett foods and wines, and a particular feature of the VIP Restaurant's menu is that the ingredients for nearly all the dishes are sourced directly from South Bunett food producers. This year the VIP Marquee Restaurant will be offering two different menus: a lunch time menu (between 12:00 noon and 2:00pm) where patrons can get to enjoy a choice of three great a-la-carte meals for between $22 and $25 per head along with a free wine service; and a bumper Four Course Dinner Showcase from 6:30pm onwards where for $59 a head guests can get to finish the day in fine style working their way through four great courses - again, with a free wine service thrown in. Both menus have been prepared by chefs Jennifer Mills and Brent Shorter, and they'll be working in the restaurant's kitchen all day to cook up these feasts. Naturally, seating is limited - so if you want to be certain of your seat at this year's restaurant you need to book in advance. You can do this by phoning Kelly on (07) 4162-1677. You can also obtain a copy of the VIP Marquee Restaurant's 2010 menus in PDF format by clicking here. Photo: Festival-goers at Wine and Food In The Park can enjoy a sit-down restaurant lunch or dinner at the VIP Marquee Restaurant, which is located immediately next to the Giant Wine Tent. The Marquee Restaurant is popular with corporates who want to treat their clients to a very special day out, as well Festival-goers who want a complete sit-down wine and food experience. We Go Ballistic On Facebook! 9th January 2010: The 2010 Wine & Food In The Park Festival is going ballistic on Facebook thanks to the hard work of South Burnett resident (and regular WAFITP Festival-goer) Kate Dickenson. Just a day after we unveiled this year's Festival website, Kate created a 2010 Wine & Food In The Park Festival group on Facebook to help spread the word to her friends. However - by accident - Kate forgot to turn off the global setting on Facebook to keep the group private when she set it up. So when her friends began inviting their friends, the jaw-dropping result was that in just a few days word about this year's Festival had been spread to more than 1,300 people. And the numbers are still growing! "I just wanted to set it up to invite my friends," Kate told us, "but I didn't change the setting and it accidently went out to the world. Now it's bigger than Ben Hur!" Roughly 2/3rds of the people who've responded to Kate's invitation have already said they'll definitely be coming or hope to come. And this result mirrors 2009's Facebook results but looks like being twice as big by the time Festival Day dawns. You can join Kate's Facebook group yourself - and help spread the word to your own friends (as well as meet many potential new ones) - by clicking here. 2010 Festival Entertainment Schedule Now Online 4th January 2010: Hello everyone - Happy New Year! Hard to believe, we know, but Wine & Food In The Park 2010 is now just 10 weeks away. So today we unveiled our new 2010 Festival website to let you know about all the great things we'll have for you at this year's event. And we'll be writing stories every five days from now on to keep you updated with the latest developments. Today, though, we're proud to unveil the details of our 2010 entertainment line-up, which is probably the best we've had to date. Lead acts this year include the incredible 8 Ball Aitken (pictured above) who's coming to us direct from his latest US tour; comic fiddler and Net cult sensation Pete Denahy; ARIA nominated hillbilly popster Lou Bradley; rising country singer Lance Friend; Darling Downs rhythm and blues allstars Blue Room Blues; and to kick off the show, the South Burnett's own amazing Kingaroy SHS Show Band. Our favourite acrobatic entertainers Monster Blonde are also returning to add their special sparkle to WAFITP 2010, along with newcomers Sault Poets and - for children! - Stripey The Clown. You can see videos of all our lead acts and get the complete 2010 entertainment schedule on the What's On page of our website. You can also see the 8 Ball Aitken video of "Cyclone Country" that the photo above was taken from on YouTube by clicking here 2010 Food And Wine Stallholder Forms Now Available 25th August 2009: The 2010 Wine & Food In The Park Festival will be held at Memorial Park in Kingaroy on Saturday 13th March 2010. And if you want to run a food stall or a winery stand at next year's Festival you should download, complete and return a 2010 Food Stallholder Application or a 2010 Wine Stall Application as soon as possible. Only a strictly limited number of places are available in both the Festival Food Court and the Giant Wine Tent so it's very much a case of first in, best dressed! And unless we're booked out beforehand (which could well happen), all applications will completely close on 29th January 2010 for the Food Court and 22nd February 2010 for the Giant Wine Tent. Note: Some food stall holders may also be required to obtain a short term Food Stall Licence from the South Burnett Regional Council. You can obtain a copy of that form by clicking here. And if you're in any doubt about whether you need to do this or not, you can obtain more details by phoning the Council on (07) 4162-6200

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