Darling Harbour Australia Day - FREE

Get everyone together to celebrate Australia Day at Darling Harbour with a huge day of free entertainment including the official NSW Australia Day Spectacular.

Children's Stage
The Village Green, Darling Quarter
11.30am - 4.30pm
Join Playschool star Jay Laga'aia, indigenous musical group Circular Rhythm, ARIA Award-winning children's show Chrissy's Island Family and energetic African musicians Afro Beats.

World Music and Dance Program
Palm Grove
12 noon - 6pm

Six hours of the best world music featuring the energy and rhythm of Afro Moses and Moses O'Jah; Celtic favourites and originals from Seltic Sirens; Assyrian party music from Azadoota; and gypsy, Cuban and Zimbabwean dance music courtesy of Marsala.

Australia Day Spectacular
Cockle Bay
7pm - 9pm

The biggest event on the NSW Australia Day calendar! Includes address from the Governor of NSW, boat parades, an action-packed Water Police rescue, culminating in a breathtaking symphony of light, sound, music and fireworks.

THROUGHOUT JANUARY

Circus Oz
Tumbalong Park
4-29 January

Circus Oz is steamrolling into Sydney this January with their special brand of madness and fooling around in the unconventional and fantastical world of Steampunk.

Visit www.circusoz.com/2012
For bookings call Ticketmaster on 136 100 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.au

DARLING HARBOUR AUSTRALIA DAY – FREE EVENT Wednesday 26 January

There’s nowhere better to take the family on Australia Day than Darling Harbour! Get everyone together and celebrate our cultural diversity with a huge day of free entertainment by the harbour including the official NSW Australia Day Spectacular.

There’ll be plenty of family fun as Jay Laga'aia hosts the ever-popular ABC for Kids concert on the Curtain Call Lawn and there’s even a chance to meet and greet your favourite characters! The Harbourside Amphitheatre will be transformed into an outdoor cinema with ‘Aussie Shorts’ while the best of world music and dance will come together on Cockle Bay’s floating stage.

If that wasn’t enough to make your Australia Day unforgettable, the entertainment will come to a magnificent end with the music of Nigel Westlake played by the Sydney Youth Orchestra, a multimedia symphony of light, sound and music and a breathtaking finale of fireworks in the Australia Day Spectacular.

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