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Entertainment at the Tamworth Country Music Festival is spread throughout the City in many varied venues. In fact last year the Official Program to Tamworth presented 2,500 events being staged in 120 venues. Over 800 artists performed during the 2010 Country Music Festival.

Each of the properties organise their own entertainment, scheduling into its venue music which most suits its customer’s taste. To help you access information on the attractions that are available, we offer the following register of major venues, hotels, licensed clubs and some of the shopping centres and restaurants which have become involved in staging entertainment.

Hotels in Tamworth

Hotel Name Address Phone Fax
The Atrium Shopping Centre Peel Street Tamworth (02) 6768 3333 (02) 6768 3330
Central Hotel Corner Peel and Brisbane Street (02) 6766 2160 (02) 6766 2616
Court House 240 Peel Street (02) 6766 1279 (02) 6766 5279
Family Hotel Corner Bridge and Belmore Streets (02) 6765 7722 (02) 6765 3638
Fitzroy Tavern 8 Fitzroy Street (02) 6766 2680 (02) 6761 3945
Good Companions 9 Brisbane Street (02) 6766 2850 (02) 6766 2801
Imperial Hotel Corner Brisbane and Marius Streets (02) 6766 2613 (02) 6766 2962
Joe Maguires Pub 148 Peel Street (02) 6766 2114 (02) 6766 1329
Locomotive Hotel Corner William and Belmore (02) 6765 8207 (02) 6762 3190
Longyard Hotel Ringers Road (02) 6765 3411 (02) 6765 3620
Oasis Hotel 583 Armidale Road (02) 6766 3391 (02) 6766 1367
Southgate Inn 16a Kent Street (02) 6765 7999 (02) 6765 7807
Tamworth Hotel 147 Marius Street (02) 6766 2923 (02) 6766 2847
The Pub 99 Gunnedah Road (02) 6765 5655 (02) 6765 6500

Licensed Clubs in Tamworth

North Tamworth Bowling Club Corner Piper and Bligh Streets (02) 6766 1987 (02) 6766 1250
South Tamworth Bowling Club Margaret Street (02) 6765 5766 (02) 6762 3075
Tamworth City Bowling Club Corner Brisbane and Napier Streets (02) 6766 2804 (02) 6766 2805
Tamworth Services Club 199 Marius Street (02) 6766 8166 (02) 6766 4452
West Diggers Kable Avenue (02) 6766 4661 (02) 6766 4419
West Tamworth Bowling Club 103 Belmore Street (02) 6765 8205 (02) 6762 2468
West Tamworth League Club Phillip Street (02) 6765 7588 (02) 6765 9457

Retail Outlets in Tamworth

Retail Outlet Address Phone Fax
Centrepoint Arcade A J Richardson Pty Ltd
PO Box 393, Tamworth 2340		 (02) 6766 6488 (02) 6766 6029
Target Australia 369 Peel Street (02) 6766 2666 (02) 6766 9101
City Plaza Ravette Pty Ltd
PO Box 393, Tamworth 2340		 (02) 6766 6488 (02) 6766 6029
Southgate Shopping Centre Ray White Real Estate,
Brisbane Street		 (02) 6766 1666 (02) 6766 8361
Tamworth Shopping World Bridge Street (02) 6765 2403 (02) 6765 5335
Northgate Shopping Centre L J Hooker
Corner Brisbane and Bourke Street		 (02) 6766 6400 (02) 6766 6661

Tamworth Showground

For information on accommodation and events please contact the Tamworth Showground.

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Tamworth P&A Association
22-60 Showground Road
Taminda NSW 2340
PO Box 7111
New England NEMSC NSW 2348

  • (02) 6765 9381
  • (02) 6765 2088

Tamworth Jockey Club

The leading regional racecourse in the north west area offers seating for 800 patrons (including a performance area) parking, bar facilities and snack bars.

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Council Owned Venues available for hire by artist management and promoters include:

Tamworth Regional Entertainment and Conference Centre (TRECC)

The Tamworth Regional Entertainment and Conference Centre (TRECC), home of the Golden Guitar Awards, can be configured to seat 1,800, 3,000 or 5,000.

The very intimate Lyric Mode (1,800 seats) has an excellent ambience for both the entertainers and patrons. This exciting venue will seat 5,000 for major concerts and provide a clear span floor space of 4,800 square metres for exhibitions, conferences and trade shows.

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Capitol Theatre Tamworth

Located right in the heart of Tamworth, the Capitol Theatre is Tamworth’s newest performance venue seating 402 on racked seating. Nestled in the heart of the Centrepoint Shopping Complex, on Level 1, the Capitol Theatre shares it foyer and bar with the Forum6 Cinema.

Theatre and Production Consultant, Richard Stuart was engaged to plan and oversee the fit-out of the theatre. With a hydraulic orchestra pit lift, automated winch flying system and well equipped sound and lighting rigs the Capitol Theatre is a great new performing arts venue.

Capitol Theatre Tamworth is a proud initiative of Tamworth Regional Council.

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Tamworth Town Hall

Situated in the CBD this wonderful heritage style building has the capacity to seat 1,000 persons and is a venue for major concerts: The Tamworth Town Hall is equipped with state of the art production it is an excellent venue enormously popular with both entertainers and audiences. For hirers it offers a one stop hire package to an out of town promoter making their festival planning easy.

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Bicentennial Park

Just one block from the CBD the park is an absolute favorite outdoor venue with both audiences and performers. It’s equipped with high quality sound and lighting and thousands of appreciative fans equipped with their folding chairs and blankets enthusiastically settle into the park which has the atmosphere of an amphitheatre. An excellent venue hire during the period makes it a highly prized venue. Assistance by council staff is always extended to hirers which is of particular help to out of town organisers for concerts or any associated activity.

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Tamworth Community Centre

The Tamworth Community Centre at the corner of Peel and Darling streets comes under the auspices of the Tamworth Regional Council and holds concerts and other events as well as the CCMA Talent Quest each year. It has seating capacity of 200 in the Heritage Room and 70 in the Britten Room. It’s a heritage style building which has ample parking and wheelchair access.

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