NEW Year’s Eve is full of entertainment across the region to welcome in 2013.
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Tamworth doesn’t have fireworks on NYE, instead saving its gunpowder for Australia Day during the country music festival.
The pubs and clubs throw open their doors and welcome everyone in with a range of entertainers for all music tastes.
Country is the flavour at the Oasis Hotel with Dally Croft Band and host Graeme Doubleday from 7.30pm and Those Gals take Hollywood to the Tamworth Services Club – so make sure you dress appropriately.
Matt O’Leary will be at the Tudor from 8.30pm and Jimmy Craz will entertain the crowd at the Post Office Hotel.
The Locomotive is going back in time with a ’50s, ’60s and ’70s Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance and the “Biggest Party in Town” with Glow and Fluoro is at The Central.
Wests have Heartland and Wests’ Diggers rock with Blu while The Goodies hosts Jesse Vee and DJ Pepi upstairs in the Atrium.
The Longyard Hotel will have Inverell’s Mark Jackson from 9pm.
If it’s fireworks you’re after, Moree and Armidale will bring in the New Year with a bang.
Moree will welcome the New Year with a family-focused celebration at Ron Harborne Oval including live bands, a barbecue, a jumping castle and, of course, fireworks.
Armidale’s Wicklow Hotel is hosting a fireworks display by New England priest Father “Holy Smoke” Koppman at Rologas Fields.
Also included in the celebrations will be face painting and bands.
Meanwhile, racegoers will have the chance to celebrate the start of 2013 in style when the famous Wallabadah Races meet for the 161st year on New year’s Day.
The volunteer-organised event – which has been around longer than even the Melbourne Cup – attracts hundreds of spectators each year.
“Apart from being a great social day out, Wallabadah Races is one of the last true ‘bush-meetings’ in operation,” Wallabadah Jockey Club president Bill Kelly said.
“Add the ‘up-hill-down-dale’ nature of the course and Wallabadah Races is a day out with a difference.”
There will be the requisite fashions on the field competition and a raffle for Wallabadah Public School, as well as Rodney the clown and a jumping castle for the kids.
The Upper Horton Rodeo and Campdraft runs right over the New Year period, from December 30 to January 3.
The New Year’s Eve rodeo of the event has been pegged as producing some of “Australia’s toughest cowboys”.
