The Picker's Hut

Festival of Small Halls is thrilled to announce that Susan O’Neill (IRE) and Monique Clare (AUS) will feature on the upcoming Summer Tour 2025: Woodford Folk Festival to Cygnet Folk Festival. Kicking off at Woodford Folk Festival for 6 days of warm summer music, the tour will travel to the southern end of the country for a 3 week run of shows on the Apple Isle. Produced by Woodfordia Inc, this community driven regional music tour will be their 43rd tour. Visiting 10 regional towns from the East Coast beaches in Swansea to the wild north-west in Stanley, Susan O’Neil and Monique Clare will showcase their exceptional vocal and songwriting talents to mesmerised audiences across the state, as well as at Cygnet Folk Festival. Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2025 starts at Woodford Folk Festival from 27 December – 1 January, before heading to ten communities across Tasmania as well as the Cygnet Folk Festival from 11 – 12 January. The final show of this tour, at Sandford Hall on 19th January 2025, marks the 700th Festival of Small Halls show since the tours began in 2013.

Our family-owned whisky, gin and liqueur distillery is built on the banks of the River Derwent (timtumili minanya), in the small rural town of Dromedary. Dromedary is half an hour from Hobart and only a short drive from the heritage town of New Norfolk. It is nestled between Mount Dromedary and the Dromedary Forest Reserve. We often forage botanicals from our distillery site to create our gins and liqueurs, with a strong focus on sustainably sourced, local and organic ingredients. We produce in small batches to ensure quality and enjoy using unique, seasonal Tasmanian native ingredients in our recipes.

Enjoy a walk around the historic Brighton Army Camp, an amazingly rich site with many layers of history and stories. Located near the historic village of Pontville on the Heritage Highway. Learn about the full history of the site from prior to European settlement up until today. Immerse yourself in an augmented reality experience that brings to life stories from the site and our area, such as Tasmania’s first commercial flights, trade between aboriginal bands, training for WWII, the housing of Italian prisoners of war and refugees from Eastern Europe, a temporary home for Tasmanians who lost their homes in the 1967 bush fires and a refuge for Kosovars escaping the Balkans War. To explore the site with Augmented Reality download the Uist app from the Apple Store.