KYABRAM’S ANNUAL MARKET DAY IS HAVING A SPRING MAKEOVER, WITH A NAME CHANGE AND MORE ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS.
Now called the Kyabram Spring Market, the day-long community market will be filled with family fun for all.
Tied in with the Kyabram RV Country Music Festival, the spring market encourages locals and visitors alike to shop locally in the lead-up to Christmas.
Kyabram Chamber of Commerce president Deanne Stagg knows that there will be plenty on offer up the street on the day.
“We are changing up the kid’s activities in 2024, with more family fun,” Deanne said.
“There is not really anyone to single out; quite a few different and varied outside traders are coming into town for the day.
“The service organisations will also be set up down the street so people can get information from them.
“There is a community, there are the local traders, and there will be many food choices from different businesses.
“There is everything, for all ages, all walks of life.”
There will be giveaways at the market from participating businesses for vouchers to use over the weekend.
A highlight every year is the Kyabram traders holding sidewalk sales.
This year the sidewalk sales will continue from all day Friday and into Saturday morning.
Deanne hopes for good weather, which will always add to the event’s success.
“It is a good day, with all the people in town it adds to the atmosphere and that is a big part of having the spring market,” she said.
“I don’t think there are many other things like the spring market around, where the street is closed and there is a market, that in itself makes it a draw card.”
The spring market will be full of general and community-based stallholders with an eclectic mix of products such as honey, arts and crafts, plants, homewares, jewellery, handmade body and bath products.
Buskers will bring the sounds of the Kyabram RV Country Music Festival to the street.
A bus will run all day between the Kyabram RV Country Music Festival and the bush market to help bring visitors to the main street.
Along with the Kyabram Spring Market, the Kyabram Uniting Church will hold an exhibition and sale of Cam Tomfon’s photographs, with proceeds going back to the church.
The exhibition will be in the Uniting Church Hall on the corner of Unitt and Union St, Kyabram, from 10am to 8.30pm on Friday, November 8 and 10am to 2pm on Saturday, November 9.
Kyabram Spring Market will be held on Friday, November 8 along Allan St between Albion and Church Sts from 9am to 4.30pm.