Reasons to get Lost in January
LAVENDER HARVEST
Lavandula's Lavender Harvest festival is a celebration of all things lavender, and it's an opportunity for visitors to discover the many processes and uses of this wonderful plant. The process includes harvesting with hand sickles, bunching for drying, winnowing the flowers and seeds, and distilling for essential oil and oral water. Its uses are many and varied from dried flower arrangements, filling potpourri satchels, culinary lavender used in cooking and lavender oil and water for therapeutic and medicinal use.
12 January, Lavandula Swiss Italian Farm, 350 Hepburn-Newstead Road, Shepherds Flat. Gate fee: $6 per adult / $2 per child
Please visit lavandula.com.au for more information
ELTON JOHN AT HANGING ROCK
Sir Elton John, recently crowned by Billboard as the most successful performing male solo artist of all time, will perform two Hanging Rock concerts in January 2020 as par of the Australian leg of his global Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
25 & 26 January, Hanging Rock, South Rock Road, Woodend
Secure your tickets online at frontiertouring.com/eltonjohnhangingrock
PINOT & PETANQUE + POOCHES 2020
Pinot and Petanque is back in 2020, join us for a glass of Pinot and a game of Petanque on Saturday 18 January, 2020. What better way to spend a Summer’s day in the heart of the Macedon Ranges.
Enjoy a glass of our famous Pinot and enjoy a leisurely game of Petanque or sit back on the lawn and enjoy the live music with views across sprawling vineyards. There will be plenty of festival fare from wood- red pizzas, grazing and cheese boards, a gourmet BBQ and food trucks including an ice cream van.
Bring a picnic blanket and gather yours friends and family for a relaxing day out. Dogs are welcome!
12pm-6pm, 18 January, Cleveland Winery, 55 Shannons Road, Lance eld 5429 9000, clevelandwinery.com.au
ENCHANTED FOREST SAND ART SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
A fun and interactive sand sculpture exhibition held on the grounds of the historic Dromkeen Homestead in Riddells Creek, less than an hours’ drive from Melbourne.
This great family day out features sand sculptures of unicorns, fairies, goblins and griffins from sculpture artists from around the world. It even includes a 30 tonne gravity-defying sculpture – an amazing feat!
6 - 16 January, 1012 Kilmore Road, Riddells Creek
Gate fee: $15 per adult / $7 per child
Please visit enchantedforestadventure.com.au for more information and tickets
MACEDON RANGES YOUTH HOLIDAY PROGRAM
Need something to do on the school holidays? We have something running in most towns across Macedon Ranges in January for local young people. All events are fully supervised.
12pm - 3pm, 8 - 23 January, mits@mrsc.vic.gov.au
BEAUTIFUL DARK - THE MUSIC OF TWIN PEAKS
Beautiful Dark - The Music of Twin Peaks take you on a journey to a town five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. Playing the music from Mark Frost and David Lynch's TV series 'Twin Peaks', the band recreate the world of the show with unnerving fidelity: the sights, sounds and tastes of a place where nothing is as it seems.
7.30pm, 25 January
Palais-Hepburn, 111 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs