Back O’Bourke Fiesta — Viva la Bourke!

Talented musician, Fanny Lumsden will be one of the well-known acts at the upcoming Bourke Twilight Fiesta.. Photo TWH

The Open Streets program will ironically close Bourke streets, but it’s all to provide a good time for the community.

Bourke Shire Council General Manager Leonie Brown said that council had been successful in gaining funding to stage a Back of Bourke Twilight Street Fiesta.

“Bourke has become a very multicultural society, thanks in part to the abattoir and the number of people that are coming in and working there but also within our own organisation, we have several different cultures employed.”

The Bourke Twilight Street Fiesta will take place on Saturday, March 29 and Mrs Brown said that council very much appreciated the state government support to run the event.

“We will start at 4pm and run to 9.30pm,” Mrs Brown said. “We’ve been lucky enough to engage a couple of bands who will play on the back of a truck.

The frontline free entertainment sourced by Council for this event is Fanny Lumsden and The Buckleys.

Edwina Lumsden, known as Fanny Lumsden, grew up on a sheep farm to the west of West Wyalong, studied rural science at the University of New England and has been the winner of two ARIA and nine Golden Guitar awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Her album ‘Hey Dawn’ took out the 2023 ARIA for Best Country Album, the CMAA Golden Guitar for the Alt-Country Album of the Year and 2024 Country Album of the year at the AIRA Awards. She will be a huge drawcard for the Back O’Bourke Fiesta. […]

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