One of Australia’s favourite and most respected musicians, Ian Moss, is calling into Airlie Beach for the unmissable Airlie Beach Festival of Music in just under one weeks’ time. Delivering smooth vocals and unforgettable tunes, the tenacity, clarity and resonating passion that is Ian Moss will ensure the best times for the Festival, both on stage and off.
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Aspiring musicians from across the country are coming to Airlie Beach next week to celebrate the best of Aussie original music in the Passport to Airlie Competition that propels small independent acts into national stardom.
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Airlie Beach Festival of Music just got better, with the infamous Aussie blues banjo bandits, The Pigs, making the line-up. About to hit their 20th year anniversary of making the beautiful banjo blues, the boys of The Pigs are ready to take Airlie Beach by storm.
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Returning with excitement in their hearts and fun on the mind are 2017 Passport To Airlie winners, The Wayward Suns. These Gold Coast boys are no-newcomers to both Airlie Beach or the Airlie Beach Festival of Music, having taken the festival by storm in the early days of 2017, taking out the massive win at Passport to Airlie and appearing on the main stage alongside Kate Ceberano, Shannon Noll and The Chantoozies.
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Coming off the back of winning the Mackay regional finals for the 2023 iteration of Passport To Airlie, The Wild Sky are riding the wave of excitement. Known for their sophisticated jazz with hints of hip-hop, metal and rock, The Wild Sky brings a unique musical experience, with at least one track to satisfy every listener around.
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Start Your Weekend Off RightWith the dynamic and electric boys from Geed Up, the three-man team, with their fantastic team of break dancers, that know just how to get an audience tapping to the beat. With polished harmonies, perfectly rehearsed choreography, and energy to raise the Airlie Beach Hotel roof, this is the best way to begin an unmissable weekend of absolutely killer music.
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Youth of the Whitsundays spent Halloween weekend the best way, with PCYC Whitsundays hosting a fantastic Halloween Disco!With all sorts of costumes, from spooky ghouls and beautiful princesses, to an alien abduction, there was fun to be had all around.
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Academic ExcellenceYear 7 – Trinity Blake, Adele Bosson, Charity-Rose Fellows, Casey Forrester, Reuben Jorgensen, Kale Malone, Ostin McMahon, Lily Moore, Zac Wright and Williams Weekes who was the top performing student for Year 7.Year 8 - Katie Austin, Olivia Boyce, Sophie Brazil, Millie Brown, Ileana Cookson, Gabrielle Edgerton, Kasey Holt, Tyson Jensen, Jamie Lust, Lilly Roberts, Jacob Ross, Charlotte Southern, Hugo Williams and Riley Fletcher who was the top performing student for Year 8.
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For Kiarna Paterson, her natural talent for soccer wasn’t realised until her and her family relocated to Proserpine a little over three years ago. And now, she has been selected for the prestigious IBERCUP, after securing a place in the Football Queensland Academy and training with the Barca Academy. “I first started playing soccer when I was in grade six, when we first moved up here,” Kiarna explained.Having not played before, her natural ability surprised her family, who have now worked to ens
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From 27th to 28th October, The Pioneer Swimming Club travelled to Rockhampton for the Beef City Preparation Meet, hosted by Caribeae Swimming Club. This was the first time the Pioneers have travelled to this meet as a club, and it did not disappoint. The club were very impressed with the range of events programmed, including ‘Speed Machine’ races, where money could be won for the fastest freestyle swimmers in each age group. ‘Top Gun’, where swimmers are eliminated one by one after each heat, as
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Wednesday’s competition was a Stableford sponsored by the golf club. Viv Clark won the ladies’ event with Penny Stewart coming runner up.In the men’s Scott Raisbeck won and Peter Theodossio was runner up.
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Members of the Mackay GameFishing Club Inc ventured up to the Whitsunday Game Fish Club Annual Tournament. It was a long awaited event, with seven Mackay boats who fished which accounted for an incredible twenty-one from twenty-seven bullfish tagged. Highlights of the Tournament included 6-year-old Finnlay winning the encouragement award and also a prize in ‘last man standing’. Chad Lewis on boat ‘Upgrade’ winning the ‘shotgun start’ and arrived on the fishing ground in twenty-seven minutes.
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Tuesday's overall winners were Michael Miller with 42 pts followed by Dylan Holland and Ryan Wilkes on 39, Adam Maggs on 38 and Simon Della Santa on 37. Nearest to Pins were Michael Ward and Brian Smith.
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While numbers may have been down with people away (some overseas) and many partying on after a major birthday do on Saturday evening, but 15 players still made it for a keen competition.Blustery winds continued to make things difficult for some players, especially the big hitters, but WGC players never give up, and Stableford is very forgiving on that bad hole when you don’t have to putt out.
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This week 9-hole stableford competition saw Donna Henderson take first place with a 22 pt c/b, second place with 22 pts Riley Mercieca and third place with 21 pts c/b was Dean Barnard.
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Over the weekend, 8 swimmers competed at the Charters Towers LC Transition Meet. Eloise Chegwidden aged 8 years won all her individual events. Eloise’s brother, Harry swam 3 PBs and achieved top placings in all his events.
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Rowena Sinclair-Smith is one dedicated and determined woman. Mother of three, granny to one, swim school owner and lnstructor in ACT, astute business woman and a passionate competing Triathlete. Rowena recently purchased a house in the Whitsundays and now commutes between Canberra and Airlie Beach.
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A life of dedication and commitment to a sport that he loves is what motivates Shane Allan, who recently represented Whitsundays PCYC at the Sarina Fight Night. In the heavyweight category, Shane had some big competition, at least 20 kilo heavier competition, as far as his wife Kristy Allan was concerned. Sharing blows, the competition was hard.
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Can you believe that we are almost into the last month of Spring the year is almost over here in Paradise, but our bowls is only getting bigger.Tuesday afternoon bowls saw skipper Tony Whitehorn with lead Maureen Barnard take home the prize money and to make it a family affair Betty Whitehorn won the prestigious Health Hub award.
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Triples Competition Final: Ron Muir, Herb Dalton, and Shane Spann defeated Lee Welsted, Jeff Tierney, and Steve Roome.Wednesday Social: Anna, Ross Scanlon, Peter Bruce defeated Eddy Neylon, Keith Kirk, and Steve Roome.B.Barker and Gavin Charles defeated R.Muir and Peter Bruce.
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The last of the Champion of Champion events for the Mackay District were held this weekend. Our 2 Bowl Triples team of Shane Kinnear, Scott Hamilton and Wayne Handley travelled to Pioneer Valley to compete, and compete strongly they did.
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After three weekends of Bridge, Frances Brown won the Presidents Cup followed by Janelle Conroy in second place. Sandy Patterson and Geoff Cowan won the Novice Pairs with Joy Block and Diane Stokes as the runners up. WEEKLY RESULTS 28th October – Presidents Cup Final Results 1st Frances Brown 2nd Janelle Conroy 3rd Max Holewa 4th Robert Carless 29th October – Novice Pairs Final Results 1st Sandy Patterson / Geoff Patterson 2nd Joy Block / Diane Stokes 3rd Ian Gaskell / Carol Gaskell 4th An
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On Tuesday, winners we had 2 games of 3 bowl pairs. Winners were Hans Baas, and Kennedy Whitton defeated Bron Tolcher and Robyn Stitt.Gwenda Lydom and Penny Warren defeated Deb Retchless and Linda Smith. The jackpot didn’t go off.
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Council is aware of water discolouration at Midge Point, which is due to emergency firefighting activities that occurred in the area on Friday, October 27, and Saturday, October 28. Council advises to not consume darkly coloured water at this stage. A water tanker is currently available at Midge Point Rural Fire Brigade, 1481 Midge Street, from 2.30pm to 5:30pm today and noon to 5pm tomorrow for residents to obtain drinking water only. During firefighting periods, there is a significantly high
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Region’s Rescuers ‘Gob-Smacked’ By Record Donation One of Mackay’s smallest schools has shown enormous heart with an incredible, record donation to the region’s rescuers. Chelona State School fundraised an incredible $13,000 for RACQ CQ Rescue during Rescue Chopper Week and has now set their sights on reaching a target donation of $15,000 by next Friday. The blue and yellow Bell 412 rescue helicopter landed on the oval last Friday morning, about 15km south of Mackay, to thank the students a
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