Goodna Jacaranda Festival

Oct 24th & 25th 2025

Goodna Jacaranda Festival

The Goodna Jacaranda Festival is Ipswich’s most loved community festival that celebrates our wonderfully diverse region and our great Queensland lifestlye.

Get involved in this fantastic community event. Join us as stall holder or sponsor, enter one of our many performing arts competitions or just turn up on the weekend and soak in the atmosphere.

Live music on stage at the Goodna Jacaranda Festival

QUEST FOR TALENT

The Quest provides a fantastic development opportunity for performers to hone their skills in front of qualified judges and the local crowd.

Sideshow Alley

A favourite with the young and young at heart, this years festival features a huge line up of rides and amusements for the whole family.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Check out this years lineup for Jacaranda Festival events and contests.

Schools Program Still going strong.

Year after year schools from around the region gather at the Goodna Jacaranda Festival to perform for their parents, family and our community.

The festival garners so much interest in fact that in some years we have to turn some entries away due to the huge demand to perform.

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LATEST NEWS & UPDATES

9 October 2025

Kruger’s Young Performers Bring the Beat of Samoa to Goodna

Kruger State School’s talented Year 5 and 6 performers will open the 2025 Goodna Jacaranda Festival with a stunning Samoan cultural showcase — blending rhythm, storytelling, and community pride in a celebration of diversity.
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4 October 2025

Meet the Judges: Battle of the Bands 2025

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25 May 2025

Jacaranda Festival Magic – Experience the new Two-Day Extravaganza

A Two-Day Celebration of Community, Colour, and Culture The beloved Goodna Jacaranda Festival is back in 2025 with a fresh new twist – this year, for the first time, the festival will run over two vibrant days, making it bigger and better than ever before. Mark your calendars for Friday, 24 October and Saturday, 25…
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