Boyup Brook Events

Events held in Boyup Brook

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Visitors will be impressed with the clean and neat town of Boyup Brook set amongst the surrounding hills and rolling countryside. The double streets gain many comments with the gardens and lawn in the centres, and artistic banners painted by the local school children. Activities can be as varied as your health dictates, from tackling the 6 km walk on the town walk trail, to a wander through the Pioneer Museum incorporating the Masonic Lodge. Boyup Brook is a home for Country Music with Harvey Dicksons’s Country Music Centre – a must see; and a Country Music Club which hosts one of the largest Country Music Festivals in the state. If our native plants and animals are your special requirement Boyup Brook can supply that too, for a visit to Roo Gully Wildlife Sanctuary will give you an insight into the life of a kangaroo, and Perup Ecology Centre will show you other animals that abound in that area of the district. Of course spring is just the right time to view the many wildflowers, and also the open gardens. Resident artist, Mr. Sandy Chambers, always welcomes visitors to his home and gallery, and is always pleased to explain his unique street art in the form of sand sculptures and holograms.

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February
With the largest Country Music Festival in the state held annually in February, it’s no wonder Boyup Brook is proclaimed as the “Country Music Capital of WA”. The annual festival also incorporates and boasts the West Australian Country Music Awards, the Boyup Ute & Truck Muster, and the biggest Bush Poets Breakfast in Australia.

March
The Annual Camp Draft Weekend is held at the Sports Grounds at Mayanup, and visitors are welcome to watch the horses and their riders go through their paces. See some of the finest stock horses in WA working cattle under competition conditions

April
Working Sheep Dogs’ Trials are held at Mayanup Sports Ground. It is well worth a visit to watch a sheep dog move three sheep though a series of gates, bridges and yards. It is held over three days with entries from all over the state.

September
A very busy month with a Power Dingy Race using the Blackwood River between Moodiarrup and Bridgetownwith an overnight stop in Boyup Brook; the local Lions Club arrange the Sandakan Remembrance Service on the second Tuesday of the month; and Harvey Dickson holds a Country Music Weekend towards the end of the month – a great three day event of country music and family fun in a place that just has to be seen; and also ‘Tulips with a Difference’, an Open Garden where over 90,000 bulbs of many varieties provide a very colourful display with Devonshire tea, potted tulips and arts and crafts available for sale.

October
Boyup Brook always hosts the beginning of the Blackwood Marathon, organised by the Rotary Club of Bridgetown. In fact the majority of the 56 km long course takes place in the Boyup Brook Shire . A unique event which is best watched from Jayes Bridge area where you can witness three of the legs taking place. On the same weekend a Rodeo is held at Harvey Dickson’s very unusual Rodeo Centre. See an exhibition of riding skills and a contest in steer riding, buck jumping and barrel races. Evening entertainment rounds off the day.

November
The first Tuesday is known Australia wide for Melbourne Cup Day, but in Boyup Brook it is the day for the Upper Blackwood Agricultural Show held at Dinninup. A rather unique setting for a real Agricultural show, with all the fun of the fair and much, much more.