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Candelo Arts Established in 1986, the Candelo Arts Society (CAS) has since promoted art of all facets in the Bega Valley. CAS is part of Regional Arts NSW.

The Candelo Arts Society regularly hosts both local and international touring acts. If you'd like to stay in the Candelo loop, click here to become a CAS MEMBER (you'll receive discounted tickets to every show!), or you can join our MAILING LIST, follow us on SOCIAL MEDIA, or visit our WHAT'S ON page for more information and TICKETS. Regular Music & Variety nights (M&V's) are held at the Candelo T

own Hall, The Candelo Bowling Club or sometimes at Kameruka Hall. Everyone’s invited; poets, musicians, theatre acts or performances of any kind. If you want to perform live in front of a friendly, supportive, local audience, COME AND SHARE IT! We have a diverse selection of local talents! CAS meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month at the Candelo Bowling Club from 7.30pm.

12/06/2026

Candelo Arts Society and Bega Sound Collective present Bokeh - a mid winter immersive exhibition of light and sound in the park and hall at Candelo.

Saturday 13th June 6pm
Candelo Park and Hall

Bokeh is a celebration of place and imagination, where the artworks interact with nature, pathways and you as you move through the spaces.

The exhibition showcases local experimental light and sound artists and includes installations, sculpture, sound art, projection, interactive participatory pieces and site-responsive work.

As art merges with nature we ask you to be mindful of the impact that art can have, in particular plastic pollution. Bokeh will be a glow stick free zone. Please don’t bring single use plastic glow sticks.

Bokeh is an evening of sensory exploration and delight and finishes with an epic Socializer dance party hosted by Bega Sound Collective.

Event Times:
Whole Event 6pm - 11.30pm
Exhibition in park & hall 6pm - 8pm
Food Vans in the park 6pm - 8pm
Bar in hall 6pm - 10.00pm
Dance party in hall 8pm - 11.30pm

Get your tickets now in the link in our Bio
Or on the door tonight

24/05/2026

Candelo Arts Society and the Bokeh team are hosting a community lantern-making workshop with visual artist Tracey Johnson on Monday June 1st in lead up and preparation for BOKEH.

Tracey creates immersive light and lantern installations that bring warmth, colour, and connection to outdoor events and community spaces. Based in Tathra, she travels across Australia delivering workshops and large-scale illuminated artworks that encourage creativity, participation, and storytelling.

For BOKEH, Tracey will create a Wishing Tree installation featuring illuminated bamboo and paper lanterns suspended in a tree. Festival attendees will be invited to add written wishes and messages to coloured paper tags attached to the lanterns, allowing the artwork to grow and evolve throughout the evening.

To create the lanterns, Tracey will lead a hands-on 2.5-hour community workshop. Participants will learn traditional lantern-making techniques while contributing directly to the final BOKEH installation. Lanterns can be collected and taken home after the event.

Workshop Details
Monday 1st June 2026
9:30am – 12:00pm
All materials and LED lights included
Full workshop facilitation by Tracey Johnson
No cost for the participants

This workshop offers a beautiful opportunity for creativity, community participation, and connection, culminating in a collaborative illuminated artwork for BOKEH 2026 to light up the darkness.

Please email [email protected] to sign up for the workshop. Places are limited so get it quick.

22/04/2026

Call for Artists. We are now inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from artists, makers and creative practitioners to be part of Bokeh, a community arts event transforming the Candelo park and hall into a temporary immersive landscape of light, sound and installation.

Bokeh is a celebration of place and imagination, where the artworks interact with nature, pathways, and the public as they move through the spaces. We welcome proposals across a wide range of mediums including (but not limited to) light-based works, installations, sculpture, sound art, projection, interactive or participatory pieces and site-responsive work.

About the event:
Bokeh exhibition will take place in the Candelo park and hall at night June 13th, 6pm-8pm. The event is designed to be atmospheric, accessible, and family-friendly, encouraging slow wandering and moments of wonder to light up the darkest month. Last event in 2024 we had about 350 visitors to the exhibition.

We are particularly interested in works that respond to the landscape/building, explore light and shadow and create sensory or immersive experiences.

All installations need to be self sufficient in terms of projectors, speakers, screens, lights and the set up of your exhibit. We will provide electrical power. As a non-for-profit event run by volunteers, all ticket sale income will be shared equally among artists.

There are indoor and outdoor sites. If you have a specific area where your artwork needs to go, please let us know. But understand that you may not get your first preference, we will work together to create the next best location for you.

EOI closing date: 30 April, artists notified by 15 May

To apply, please complete the EOI form in the link
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUzmDwT3SCjFiMtVZPA7S-s5pt5GhP_4Bij4FagSaa5aZb-g/viewform

03/02/2026

Bega Sound Collective and Candelo Arts Society are joining forces again this summer to bring you Dive in the Deep End - The Ultimate Pool Party!

An Alcohol Free/All-Ages fundraiser for Candelo Village Festival

Pack your picnic and cozzie, your favourite beach towel and your inflatable pool toy for your favourite pool party, featuring lush local DJs. You don’t have to worry about your b***y getting cold cause Candelo Pool is solar heated and sits at a delicious 27 degrees no matter what the weather. And if you don’t like swimming, come anyway and enjoy the summertime vibe. All are welcome.

Candelo pool is GLASS FREE so please bring reusable, unbreakable cups with your picnic.

Please note: even though this is an Alcohol Free/All-Ages dance party it’s def an adult-centred event where kids need to be supervised at all times.
The $15 ticket price covers pool entry and life guards - that's why kids and adults tickets are the same price.

We really hope you can come and support this summer fundraiser. The Olympic size pool and grassy surround has a large capacity so invite all your friends and let’s party.

https://events.humanitix.com/dive-in-the-deep-end-the-ultimate-pool-party-2026

22/01/2026

Calling all South Coast musicians, songwriters, producers and composers! 📢
Want to hone your musical craft, grow your local music community, and learn directly from music industry pros? Join the Regional Sessions Bega on 9 February,, a one-day immersive musical experience with interactive workshops, keynote speakers, panel discussions and live performances. Speakers include Tasman Keith, Lindsay McDougall, Joel Ma (Joelistics), AGUM and Karina Utomo!
Limited $30 early bird tickets on sale now! Registration includes full catering, merch bundle & networking drinks.

Learn more and get your tix now! https://bit.ly/RegionalSessionsNSW 🎵

Monday 9 February
Bega Valley Commemorative Civic Centre
10am - 5pm

08/01/2026

Scott Cook and Pamela Mae
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Candelo Town Hall
Doors open 7pm and the show starts at 7:30pm.
Support by the Wild Martinis
Cake and Cocktails by Keg and Kettle Food Van
Tickets: $30 / $25 CAS members https://tinyurl.com/3z6p3rsy

“These are whip-smart, bone-achingly lovely, socially committed songs presented with a bold, elegant directness evoking the very best of the folk music tradition. Last night's performance in Notional Space was a thing of rare beauty.” — Mark Jacobs, presenter, Notional Space

We at CAS are dedicated Scott Cook fans and last time he rolled through these parts with Pamela Mae it was a rare and special evening indeed!

So next week we are so very excited to be hosting their return as it promises to be a magical evening of story, song, laughter and also with plenty of the feels we all need and love.

Part communion for our collective spirits, part celebration of the heart and always a joy to experience, let’s show Scott and Pamela that live music is also an intrinsic part of our valley’s way of building strong collective connections and new friendships.

The show will be supported by Candelo’s own The Wild Martinis, this young band is absolutely a delight to behold.

It’s going to be one very tasty evening, grab yourselves some tickets and see you next week (Thursday Jan 15th)!

31/12/2025

Thursday 15th of January
7pm Candelo Town Hall, Supper Room
Support by the Wild Martinis

Cake and Cocktails by Keg and Kettle
Price: $30/$25 members & concession
Tix> https://events.humanitix.com/scott-cook-mue2uk3j

Born in West Virginia and raised on the Canadian prairies, Scott Cook quit a job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan in 2007 to embark on the life of a full-time troubadour. Since then he's toured steadily across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, living out of backpacks and campervans, averaging over a hundred shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and distilling his experiences into empathetic, keenly observant verse.

Scott has completed ten tours of Australia already, including talked-about performances at Woodford, Port Fairy, Cobargo, Candelo, Cygnet, Healesville, Mullumbimby, Newstead, Kangaroo Valley, Dorrigo, Maldon, Illawarra, the National, and Yackandandah folk festivals, and recorded his seventh album Tangle of Souls in Trentham, Victoria with his intercontinental stringband Scott Cook and the She'll Be Rights.

The collection comes packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations with gum leaf prints by Healesville artist Cecilia Sharpley. The album spent two weeks at #1 back home on Alberta's province-wide community radio network CKUA, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, for English Songwriter of the Year. Its second single "Say Can You See" was the second most-played song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International's folk radio charts, and took top honours for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest.

He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022, living in a campervan named Roadetta with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, and recording his eighth album Troubadourly Yours. In 2026 he and Pamela Mae are visiting a few choice festivals and towns around Australia in their HiAce Hector before embarking on a full tour of New Zealand. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

19/12/2025

A few shots from last weekend.
The Vampires - Candelo Town Hall. Sat 13th Dec
presented by

Last Saturday we had the sweet cruisy jazz sounds of The Vampires roll through town and delight us with an intimate performance of technical precision and musical whimsy taking the audience on a journey across the sonic soundscape and into another realm.

If you're keen on seeing more shows like this then why not become a member, volunteer or just sign up for our newsletter at www.candeloartsociety.org

All pics 📸
Sound / mixing -
heavy lifting bumpin and bumpout

08/12/2025

The Vampires - Candelo Town Hall
Saturday December 13
7pm Onwards. Tix $35/$25 CAS members

TIX> https://events.humanitix.com/the-vampires-sk8qcwjh

CAS Bar & Cowsnest Food Available for Purchase.

With their latest seventh album, Nightjar, ARIA Award winners The Vampires mark a watershed in their 15-year career, making them one of Australia’s most acclaimed acts. Melding saxophone and trumpet intricate melodies and expansive groove soundscapes into their austral-facing jazz textures, they effortlessly capture the essence of their genre-hopping ethos into an immersive musical experience.

Critics have hailed their music as "phenomenal" (Downbeat), "a masterpiece" (The Australian), "seductive" (Jazzwise), and "a relaxed sound journey" (Jazzthetik, DE).

The Vampires’ music is a visceral experience, deeply rooted in the expansive landscapes of Australia. Their sound is a blend of influences, shaped by their admiration for The Necks and enriched by collaborations with artists including Chris Abrahams, Lionel Loueke, Shannon Barnett and Dave Rodriguez (Godtet). This deep connection to their musical roots is evident in every note, showcasing their ability to merge composed and improvised parts seamlessly, creating a hypnotic flow that captivates listeners.

Supported by a rich history of performances and accolades, The Vampires have established themselves as a formidable force around the world. They have played at renowned venues and festivals including A Love Supreme Jazz Festival (UK), Enjoy Jazz Festival (DE) and all the major jazz festivals in Australia. Their music continues to evolve, pushing boundaries and captivating audiences with its unique blend of beautifully constructed melodies and hypnotic grooves.

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Candelo, NSW
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http://www.candeloartssociety.org/

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