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CelticFest is a Southern Downs community event run by volunteers

celticfest 2025

Warwick & surrounds

celticfest Tickets 2025

CelticFest Warwick

Saturday 4 October and Sunday 5 October, 2025

Warwick Showgrounds

CelticFest Warwick celebrates the Southern Down’s rich Celtic heritage. The ticketed event at the Warwick Showgrounds includes:

  • Main Stage: Celtic bands, duos and soloists

  • Main Arena: Australian Highland Games Championships (heavy events), horse displays, Jacobites, Viking battles

  • Medieval Arena: Village and displays, Viking single combats, lost trades

  • Celtic Animals: Highland Coos, Clydesdales, Irish Wolfhounds

  • Celtic-themed Markets: Celtic stalls, local vendors

  • Gathering of the Clans 

  • Celtic Workshops: Dance, singing, language and instruments

  • Roaming Entertainers: Pipe bands, medieval groups, buskers

  • Pipe Band Competition (on one day) 

  • Celtic Dance Displays: Irish and Highland

  • Celtic themed bar, food and drink

  • CelticFest Party Night (Saturday): The Gathering Irish band, Irish ceili (Celtic bushdance) in The Pavilion

CelticFringe Warwick

From Friday 3 October to Sunday 5 October

Various venues around the Southern Downs

CelticFringe is a program of separately organised and ticketed (where applicable) events run by CelticFest partners. It includes:

  • Club Warwick RSL: Feature-length performances from Australian Celtic Woman, Highlander Celtic Rock Band

  • Downs Explorer heritage train trips to Clifton and Greenmount

  • Celtic-themed workshops

  • Celtic buskers in the Warwick CBD

  • Open historical buildings including The Abbey of the Roses, Pringle Cottage, Glengallan Homestead & Heritage Centre

  • Celtic-themed parkrun

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What Visitors Say

"I really enjoyed everything about this event - the Highland Games, the medieval village, the beautiful highland cows, the vast range of entertainment and interactive activities, the vast array of things to buy. The whole event was amazing!! I missed last year’s and vowed not to miss this year. I have been raving about it to family and friends and I am looking forward to next year."
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MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

ENTERTAINMENT

CelticFest Warwick 2022 Highland Games Hammer Throw

HIGHLAND GAMES

CelticFest acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.

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