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Events & Festivals

Annual festivals, seasonal markets and one-off events across Adelaide Hills.

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Every Week

Regular & recurring

Markets, tastings and gatherings that run on repeat across the year. Worth timing your visit around.

Held in January (around the Australia Day long weekend); confirm dates and participating wineries each year.

Wine Festival

Adelaide Hills Crush Festival

The region's flagship cellar-door festival, when wineries across the Adelaide Hills throw open their doors for vintage feasts, live music and special tastings.

Cellar doors region-wide

Held annually in November at the Gumeracha Showground; confirm the exact date each year.

Country Show

Gumeracha Show

Livestock, woodchopping, show bags and sideshow rides - one of the region's long-running country agricultural shows at Gumeracha.

Gumeracha Showground

Annually each December, building to Christmas Eve.

Christmas

Lobethal Lights

Each December the historic town of Lobethal transforms into a glittering Christmas wonderland as homes and streets light up for the famous Lobethal Lights.

Lobethal township

Held annually on the third Sunday in October at Meadows.

Southern Hills tradition

Meadows Country Fair

A long-running community fair celebrating the farming life of the southern Adelaide Hills, with market stalls, produce, entertainment and country hospitality.

Meadows Memorial Hall & Recreation Ground

Recurring

Racing

Oakbank Racing Carnival

Picnic rugs, fascinators and country racing in a natural amphitheatre - one of the country's great picnic race meetings, held every Easter at Oakbank.

Oakbank Racecourse

Held annually during the Adelaide Fringe season.

Hills arts season

Stirling Fringe

A Hills hub of the Adelaide Fringe, bringing comedy, music, cabaret and family shows to the leafy village of Stirling each summer.

Stirling township & Coventry Gardens

Held annually on the first Sunday in November at the Uraidla Showground.

Old-fashioned country show

Uraidla & Summertown Country Show

A historic agricultural show in the high Hills village of Uraidla, with produce competitions, animals, sideshows and a fierce local sense of fun.

Uraidla Showgrounds

Held monthly on a Sunday morning - check dates before you go.

Community Market

Woodside Market

A relaxed community market in the dairy town of Woodside, with local produce, artisan food, crafts and coffee - a favourite weekend gathering in the Onkaparinga Valley.

Woodside Institute