Your guide to final week of Hide and Seek festival

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A massive shire-wide festival is currently running across Moorabool, with a huge final day of live entertainment for residents to enjoy in Ballan on July 16.

The jam-packed day will kick off with Jeremy Beggs performing from noon at Zest Café, where audience members will enjoy troubadour-inspired country rock tunes. Also at noon , jazz and Latin band Continental Drift will perform in a vintage caravan named Rosie on Inglis Street.

From 1pm, Scottish performers Fiona Ross and Shane O’Mara will play the caravan stage, while Ballarat trombone quartet pBones will play at the Sweet n Sassy shop.

The Great Western Hotel will also stage local talent from 1pm and into the evening, with performers MirLyn, Andrew Borg, Dave Western, Murphy Holmes, The Pete Daffy Trio and The East Enders entertaining audiences.

Back at Rosie the Caravan, songwriter Riley Breech will perform from 2pm, followed by folk trio Honeyfields who will dazzle with three-part harmonies at 3pm.

An exciting program will take place at the Ballan Mechanics Institute from 4pm, with sixteen of the Shire’s most talented young artists taking the stage as part of the Young and Local mentorship music program.

All the events are all-ages and free to attend.

Details: www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/Services-and-support/Arts-and-culture/Whats-On/Hide-and-Seek-Music-Festival/Program/Ballan.

Olivia Condous