Performances for Australia Day

Australia Day celebrations at Woy Woy will include performances by the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association dance troupe and the Five Lands Band Spectacular.

These will be followed by a community lantern procession by land and sea and a fireworks finale.

Children's entertainment begins at 2pm with rides and face painting, as well as free activities and a colouring-in/drawing competition at the Country Women's Association (CWA) hall on The Boulevarde.

Entertainers such as hand drumming and percussion group, Drumbala, and bush poet Fiona Hunt will feature on the main stage from 2pm.

At 6pm, a performance by local Aboriginal elders will precede the introduction of national Australia Day Ambassador, Debbie Watson OAM, and the Citizen of the Year at 6pm.

A free folk concert will be held in the CWA hall from 7pm.

A procession featuring 300 lanterns made by Gosford City residents and about 100 drummers and musicians begins at 8.45pm at the eastern end of the Memorial Park, travelling along Brick Wharf Rd to Anderson Park.

For those wanting to participate, there will be a last-minute lantern-making and decorating workshop operating in Memorial Park from 4pm to 6pm on Australia Day.

The fireworks display at 9.15pm will conclude the festivities.

Australia Day road closures will be in force at Woy Woy from 6am to 10pm, with the Boulevard and Brick Wharf Rd along Woy Woy waterfront closed to all traffic.

Parking will be available at Woy Woy commuter car park.

Press release, 11 Jan 2007 Kate Carragher, Gosford Council