Ally Row
- Saturday 22nd
- 1.45 PM 2.30 PM
- Rotunda
Ballarat High School Bands
Ballarat High music students showcase their talents, featuring band and individual performances.
- Sunday 23rd
- 2.45 PM 3.45 PM
- Rotunda
Creswick Brass Band
The Happy Band from the Central Highlands, these community music makers set the scene for a fun-filled festival Sunday.
- Sunday 23rd
- 9.45AM 10.30 AM
- Rotunda
Daylesford Community Brass Band
Community brass band returns to Clunes to get the festival off with a bang!
- Saturday 22nd
- 10.45 AM 11.30AM
- Rotunda
Los Locos
Returning by popular demand to our festival stage, Los Locos is a quirky Latin band from Victoria’s surf coast playing Cuban, mexican and Spanish songs.
- Saturday 22nd
- 3.45 PM 4.30 PM
- Rotunda
Pearlies
- Sunday 23rd
- 12.30 PM 1.15 PM
- Rotunda
Pheonix College Bands
- Sunday 23rd
- 11.OOAM 12.00 PM
- Rotunda
Shell Yeah!
- Saturday 22nd
- 12.45 PM 1.30PM
- Rotunda
Social Street
- Saturday 22nd
- 11.45 AM 12.30PM
- Rotunda
Tou-Can
- Saturday 22nd
- 2.45 PM 3.30 PM
- Rotunda
Wesley Instrumentals
Wesley College Year 9 residential campus has been a part of the Clunes community since 2000 and their music students are pioneers of the festival’s schools showcase. They are back centre stage at Booktown 2025 to serve up some more musical treats.
- Sunday 23rd
- 1.30PM 2.30 PM
- Rotunda
Roving Entertainment
Ballarat Centre Music & the Art Performers
The talented Junior Musical Theatre students from BCMA are bringing the magic to you today with their incredible roving entertainment. Celebrating 30 years in Ballarat, BCMA is the heart of everything performing arts, dance and music! Follow them on social media for updates or join the fun and enrol to start your own performing arts journey!
Nosey Parker
Join the laughter as Nosey Parker, the master of outrageous antics, brings his sidesplitting humor to life. Nosey Parker is a comedic force to be reckoned with—a quirky creative brimming with zany talents.
Paloma the Roving Poet
An eccentric Bohemian princess, Paloma wanders through the crowd with her ukulele creating personalised poems for people on the spot – lovers poems, name poems, poems about people’s favourite things…and so much more!
Kids Village
Nalderun Storytime
- Maya Coff
- First Nations story reading
- 5 and up
- Saturday 22nd
- 10:00 AM
Storytime with Andrea Rowe
- Andrea Rowe
- Story reading
- 2 and up
- Saturday 22nd
- 10:30 AM
- In the Rockpool
Travelling Emporium
- Magic Performance
- All Ages
- Saturday 22nd
- 10:00 AM
Hullabaloo About Elephant Poo Storytime
- Dee White
- Story reading & Activity
- 2 and up
- Saturday 22nd
- 12:00 PM
- The Hullabaloo About Elephant Poo
Travelling Emporium
- Magic Performance
- All Ages
- Saturday 22nd
- 1.30 PM
Everyone Needs a Liam
- Liam Adams
- Story Reading and Activity
- 10 and up
- Saturday 22nd
- 2:15 PM
- Various
Crime Mysteries for Teens
- Amy Doak
- Author interviewed by teens
- 13 and up
- Saturday 22nd
- 3:00 PM
- Eleanor Jones is Not a Murder & Bk 2
Flowers with Costa
- Costa Georgiadis
- Reading & Activity
- 3 and up
- Sunday 23rd
- 10:00 AM
- Costa's Garden: Flowers
Paco the Hermit Crab Storytime
- Gloria Chieng
- Story reading & Activity
- 3 and up
- Sunday 23rd
- 11:00 AM
- Paco the Hermit Crab
Storytime with Emma Bowd
- Emma Bowd
- Story Reading
- 3 and up
- Sunday 23rd
- 12:00 PM
- This is My Happy Place
Bravepaw Stories & Activity
- Lili Wilkinson
- Reading & Activity
- 6 and up
- Sunday 23rd
- 1.30 PM
- Bravepaw, Bravepaw & the Clawstone of Rotwood Mire
Queer Fairytales for Teens
- Michael Earp
- Author interviewed by teens
- 13 and up
- Sunday 23rd
- 3:00 PM
- Everything Under the Moon