Sometimes the rides can be tough on parents. Photo: Raylipscombe.
What’s your strongest memory of ‘the show’?
Halls filled with cakes and fruit and amateur artworks all festooned with red and blue and green winners’ ribbons?
Groups of men in hats, blue shirts and moleskin pants leaning on a rail and admiring well-hung rams?
Cages filled with fancy chooks?
Woodchoppers?
Bertie Beetle showbags?
Eating mystery meat on a stick?
Those creepy head-turning clowns with open mouths that seem to be everywhere in sideshow alley?
Going head to head with a mate on the dodgems while a man in grubby low-slung jeans and a cap casually jumps on-board to grab the wheel and attempt to get you going the right way?
Or is it seeing the same low-pants dude some hours later operating a physics-defying ride and realising that you are about to bet your life on his skill with a spanner?
My own earliest memory of the show is my brother chipping his tooth on the Cha-Cha, an injury he only discovered when he bit into a snow cone sometime later.
It doesn’t get more ‘show’ than that!
There’s something for everyone at the good old country show – and thank god it’s back for 2022!
After a couple of years in the COVID-19 wilderness, the Wagga Show Society is back to business and hard at work setting up for this year’s extravaganza.
President Robert Hamilton says that they have seen unprecedented interest from punters keen to share their lockdown projects with the world.
“It’s been three years since we’ve had one and people seem to have a lot more stuff that they’ve done while they’ve been stuck at home,” he laughs.
Wagga Show Society president Robert Hamilton. Photo: Chris Roe.
There’s loads of live entertainment planned with country-rocker Casey Barns headlining the action on Saturday night and a host of activities for the young ones.
“We’ve focused a lot around kids and having a bit of interactive entertainment,” Robert explains.
“We’ve got stuff like cooking and education on eating healthy. There’s digging for fossils and a dinosaur production and the other one is juggling and plate juggling.”
Ocrowberfest is joining forces with the Wagga Show. Photo: Supplied.
There’s also a unique Bavarian-inspired twist this year with Thirsty Crow Brewery’s version of Oktoberfest – ‘Ocrowberfest’ running in conjunction with the show on Saturday.
“If you buy a ticket to Ocrowberfest you can get access to the show as well,” says Robert.
Tickets are available online with early bird bargains on ride passes, and you can use your Service NSW Parent Vouchers to purchase them.
Robert says there’s a lot of excitement around the show’s return and he expressed his thanks to Wagga’s Rotary clubs and the volunteers who have given up their time to help get everything ready.
The 2022 Wagga Wagga Show is on 9 and 10 September, so get your tickets and we’ll see you on the dodgems!
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