Manly: Brisbane’s brightest queer breakout-artist since The Veronicas, “Hope D” will join Diesel, Chocolate Starfish, Robert Forster from the Go Betweens, and Rhonda Burchmore for an all-star line up at this year’s Wynnum Fringe Festival.
The three-week-long pride festival, which runs November 15 to December 3, celebrates music, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and more.
Hope Defteros – known more widely as Hope D – famously covered Britney Spears’ Toxic song, when she earned a Triple J Like A Version gig two years ago.
The Brisbane rock star has 60,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and snagged two executive Queensland Music Awards in both 2020 and 2021.
Best known for EP, “Cash Only”, which she released in 2021, Defteros dropped her first studio-album, Clash of the Substance, this year.
She will headline the festival’s “big gay day-out”, Rock the Bay, on December 3, in George Clayton Park, which offers up a “Summer Love” cocktail of rock, pop, funk, soul and disco.
Hope D joins the OG king and queen of pop, Daryl Braithwaite and Marcia Hines, who reunite for the first time in 30 years, and international funk and soul heroes, The Bamboos.
The Wynnum Fringe Garden will have an outdoor stage, chart-topping music, bars, ferris wheel, food trucks and activities for the little ones.
This is an all ages-licensed event with the biggest line up to ever hit Brisbane’s bayside.
A brand-new Australian Spiegeltent show starring Rhonda Burchmore will premiere at this year’s Wynnum Fringe.
Step into the glitzy world of “Rhonda’s AfterParty”, a mythical (or is it?) up-late rumpus, hosted by Australian theatre royalty Rhonda Burchmore OAM.
Produced by award-winning maestro Tom Oliver, this adults-only (18+) extravaganza invites the audience to become Burchmore’s exclusive guests for the evening, as her cabaret companions join her for drinks, laughter, and jaw-dropping performances.
Leave your worries at the door, “Rhonda’s AfterParty” is all you need.
Contains nudity, course language and strobe lighting – enter if you dare!
Wynnum Fringe runs from November 15 to December 3 and is Brisbane’s only annual fringe-festival.
It kicks off with a yana marumba (an Indigenous word meaning “good walk” which acts as the festival’s opening ceremony) and is chock-full of glitz, glamour, celebrity fanfare, live music, comedy, and more.
The festival features on the State Government’s cultural calendar and contributes to the accessibility of cultural practice well beyond Brisbane, with non-mainstream arts and entertainment.
It utilises under-used public and private spaces, bringing in purpose-built portable venues to create an uplifting carnival atmosphere with food trucks, bars and live events.
In 2022, Wynnum Fridge drew a whopping 36,000 fans, and added a “festival hub”, which included the Raine & Horne Wynnum Spiegeltent and circus space, The Vault, with its own rooftop bar.
This festival appeals to a range of audiences, ages and backgrounds.
See Wynnum Fringe Festival’s full line up: https://wynnumfringe.com.
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