Festival of Small Halls - Winter Tour 2025: Pialba Memorial Hall
Festival of Small Halls returns to Hervey Bay on Friday, 18 July 2025 with Champagne Weather and Charm of Finches.
Festival of Small Halls is a series of tours that takes the best folk and contemporary acoustic artists performing at two of our country’s largest festivals, and sends them on the road to tiny halls in communities all over Australia. It is produced by Woodfordia Inc in partnership with many other wonderful Australian festivals, regional partners and great lovers and supporters of folk and contemporary acoustic music. It’s an opportunity for music-lovers from welcoming communities to invite artists from Home and Abroad into their towns, and a way of exploring this vast country in the spirit of hospitality and great fun.
The artist line-up for Small Halls will always be at least one Australian artist and one International touring artist, who play music of exceptional quality and heart. They’ve been chosen for the tour not only because of their beautiful songs and tunes, but because they have the ability to really connect with the people they play for, whether through storytelling, the ability to tell a good joke (or a truly terrible one), a wonderful warmth and a real interest in visiting places a little off the beaten track. Each night of the tour is hosted by volunteers from the local community, so it’s also a chance for a town to show off their warmest welcome and most enthusiastic audiences.
The Pialba Memorial Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Butchulla People.
The Pialba Memorial Hall holds a special place for the people of Hervey Bay – particularly the use of the hall as a dance hall and theatre. Possibly dating to 1906, the Pialba Shire Council purchased land at Main Road and Torquay Road to construct the shire hall. In 1917 the Pialba Shire Council was replaced by the Burrum Shire Council. The building remained in use until 1977 when a new council chambers was opened at Torquay. It was moved to its present locality for use as a dance hall and theatre.
Pialba Memorial Hall is in the heart of Hervey Bay. Hervey Bay has an abundance of riches. It’s the stepping off point to World Heritage-listed K’gari, home to some of the world’s best whale watching encounters in a region recently accredited as a Whale Heritage Site and it has arguably the safest, family friendly beaches on the Queensland coast. Kick off your shoes and relax. If you want to unwind, Hervey Bay has a laid-back lifestyle that welcomes barefoot walks along the beach, bicycle rides beside the ocean and eating takeaway fish and chips with your fingers.
Festival of Small Halls returns to Hervey Bay on Friday, 18 July 2025 with Champagne Weather and Charm of Finches.
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