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· Historic Site Walks

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· Poets in the Park

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· Market Stalls (Application form)

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· Art Show - ‘Under the Eyes of Henry Moore’

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· Yeoval Bowling Club Mixed Triples Tournament

The 2009 Yeoval Country Energy Mulga Bill Festival

24th, 25th, 26th July

It will be Bigger, Better, Safer and more exciting for everyone!!

To be known as the Yeoval ‘Country Energy’ Mulga Bill Festival, our community of Yeoval will host a wonderful 3 days of Festival, with something for everybody and a great time for everyone.

The Mulga Bill Festival is proud to announce that our very special Guest for the Festival is the great Australian Actor and National Treasure MR JACK THOMPSON. He will be wearing two hats for the occasion - firstly as the reader of the recently released CD “The Bush Poems of A. B. (Banjo) Paterson and secondly as the Ambassador of National Tree Planting Day.

We invite everyone to come along and meet Jack Thompson on Saturday 25^th July as he arrives at 10.30 at the Banjo Paterson Bush Park aboard the Mudgee Brewery Clydesdale Drawn Brewery Waggon. A self confessed lover of the works of Banjo Paterson, Jack Thompson will walk along the Poets Walk beside Buckinbah Creek where Banjo played along with his sister as children,

watching the creek in flood and drought. Walking the 3/4 km to the Ruins of the Original Paterson Homestead, he will pass the beautifully hand carved Paterson Poetry Bench Seats. At the Ruins site Jack will dedicate a magnificent seat to Banjo Paterson. Hand carved in sandstone depicting the Bust of Paterson the seat looks over the Homestead Ruins. Here visitors can sit, meditate, dream and in the quite of the bushland setting, read Paterson Poetry.

As Jack Thompson walks along the banks of Buckinbah Creek he will pass a whole host of community groups and local dignitaries, as 100 trees are being planted to line the pathway. As soon as the dedication is completed our Special Guest will have to change hats as he then plants two trees - one for each hat and both beside the sandstone seat.

So please come along to Yeoval for the Mulga Bill Festival weekend - Meet Jack Thompson - buy a great CD and cheer on this great Australian as he dedicates the Banjo Seat and plants the trees for future generations to enjoy.

The now famous Mulga Bill Family Fun Bike Ride is sponsored by Darryl Grant Cycles of Orange and is one of the highlights of the weekend. This ride is conducted on asphalt roads out of Yeoval and is split into two separate rides run simultaneously to cater for every one regardless of age or experience

See our What’s On / 2009 calendar page for an up to date list of the weekend activities. Put aside the last weekend in July in your Diary now and plan to stay for the weekend. See the Accommodation page for places to stay in the area.