{"id":11376,"date":"2013-04-12T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/all-day-entertainment-as-ingham-celebrates-pub-with-no-beer-festival\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T08:17:00","slug":"all-day-entertainment-as-ingham-celebrates-pub-with-no-beer-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/04\/all-day-entertainment-as-ingham-celebrates-pub-with-no-beer-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"All Day Entertainment As Ingham Celebrates Pub With No Beer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Historical re-enactments, buskers, school choirs, bush poets, local artists and\u00a0displays of World War II military equipment, a Tiger Moth, historic and period vehicles will see the town of\u00a0Ingham come alive on April 20 for the inaugural Pub With No Beer Festival.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>This one day event has the community of Ingham gearing up for what will hopefully become one of the\u00a0biggest annual festivals in the region. The Pub with No Beer Festival is just one week away and school\u00a0groups, local entertainers and community leaders are excited to come together for this 70th anniversary\u00a0remembrance festival, which will help revitalise the town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The highlight of the festival is sure to be the historical re-enactment of the American convoy of serviceman\u00a0who gave the town its iconic status after drinking the pub dry during World War II.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe song The Pub With No Beer was a rewrite of the poem by local poet Dan Sheahan in 1943, who\u00a0penned the famous words after discovering the American servicemen had drunk the Day Dawn Hotel (now\u00a0Lees Hotel) dry,\u201d explains Mary Brown, president of the Hinchinbrook Chamber of Commerce, Industry and\u00a0Tourism. &#8220;It was also the inspiration behind Slim Dusty\u02bcs and Australia\u2019s first number one hit song.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Lees Hotel, which was awarded Queensland iconic status in 2005, will be a central part of the festival with\u00a0the first historical re-enactment on the day being the American convoy arriving at the pub and pretending to\u00a0drink it dry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This jam-packed festival will kick off at 10.30am with buskers and street entertainers until the official opening\u00a0at 11.30. It will be followed by school choirs, The Townsville RSL Pipe Band and then the first re-enactment,\u00a0which will begin at 2pm with Dan Sheahan&#8217;s descendants arriving on horseback as part of the cavalcade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second re enactment will take place at 4:30pm. Entertainment will then continue on into the evening with\u00a0plenty of activities for families and visitors to enjoy with country and western music until 10pm and then DJ\u00a0Rock until 2am.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For more information, visit\u00a0<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.hinchinbrookchamber.com.au\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hinchinbrookchamber.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.hinchinbrookchamber.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.thepubwithnobeer.com.au\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepubwithnobeer.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.thepubwithnobeer.com.au<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical re-enactments, buskers, school choirs, bush poets, local artists and\u00a0displays of World War II military equipment, a Tiger Moth, historic and period vehicles will see the town of\u00a0Ingham come alive on April 20 for the inaugural Pub With No Beer Festival. 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