The Adelaide Fringe – SA’s annual world-renowned arts festival – is back from 20 February to 22 March, and the City of Onkaparinga is packed with events.
There are almost 30 events happening across 13 Onkaparinga suburbs – conveniently compiled in this Adelaide Fringe list – but we’ve also gone and arranged everything by suburb for you below!
The council’s own Arts Centre and Sauerbier House in Port Noarlunga are again playing host to concerts, comedy and art exhibitions; while Noarlunga Centre’s revamped Hopgood Theatre will also host multiple concerts and a raw and unflinching new dance work.
Click on the links below for more info on dates, times, ticket prices and availability – but be quick, tickets are already selling out fast, particularly for shows at the Arts Centre!
Aberfoyle Park
Seeds Uniting Church is hosting 2 diverse concerts during the Fringe – one featuring the Adelaide Male Voice Choir singing Songs For All Seasons, and another that imagines what conversation the Beatles and Jesus would have had about the stuff of life.
Aldinga / Aldinga Beach
Aldinga’s Kick Back Brewing has a bumper calendar during the Fringe, offering up comedy, music and performances for all ages.
Tasmanian comic Kyle Misniewski’s debut solo show will offer hilarious tales and songs about school memories; while Chaos Theory hosted by The Beautiful Bogan, Marc Ryan, will bring together Adelaide’s newest comedy talent and established legends.
If it’s music you’re after, Cass Crichton and Cold Shot will faithfully recreate the powerful blues sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan; while the interactive Bootleg Choir show will get the audience involved in learning a song in 3-part harmony, with lyrics up on screen, drinks in hand and plenty of laughter along the way.
For the kids, the Musical Miracles interactive extravaganza is a musical play session for kids aged 9 months to 8 years old; while the enchanted wonders magic show will offer an unforgettable journey filled with dazzling music, laughter and storytelling for kids aged 4 and up.
Meanwhile, over at Silver Sands Beach Club, the bawdiest matriarch in musical comedy, Granny Flaps, is back for a Retrospective Roadshow; while the dazzling and daring crew from South Coast Circus will present their Variety Show at their Rainbird Ct base.
Blewitt Springs
Enjoy some of the greatest songs in rock and roll history, with Adelaide’s premier Fleetwood Mac tribute band – The MAC Band – preforming The Fleetwood Mac Experience at Woodstock Wine.
Clarendon
The Singing Gazebo Clarendon by the Onkaparinga River is playing host to 2 folk concerts – one from Dave Clark as he takes you on a musical journey through Europe; and another from Telenn Tri, who’ll blend the old and new with dexterous harp playing and sensitive accordion, bouzouki/guitar arrangements in Travelling Tunes.
Hackham
Funny Adelaide returns for Mocking the Suburbs – a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians at Mick O’Shea’s Hotel.
McLaren Flat
After 3 years of sold-out seasons, Virago Circus is uncorking a brand-new vintage of Flight in 2026. Five female performers. Five sensational wines. One stunning venue (Beresford Tasting Pavilion).
McLaren Vale
Fleurieu Arthouse has a pair of shows on for the art-inclined – a jewellery-making workshop using silver-clay with artist Shirley Wu; and Flux and Form, an exhibition from the Adelaide Potters’ Club.
Adelaide Baroque Quartet will perform its Enlightened Quartets, Music from the Age of Enlightenment concert at the Top House, Coriole Vineyards, with the programs highlighting composers including Mozart, Haydn and Mendelssohn.
Michelle Shanti is also launching her EP Light of Your Truth at the McLaren Vale & Fleurieu Coast Visitors Centre, but tickets have already sold out.
Morphett Vale
Woodcroft Hotel is hosting 2 hilarious performances – one from the bawdiest matriarch in musical comedy, Granny Flaps, with her Retrospective Roadshow; and Funny Adelaide’s Mocking the Suburbs – a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians.
Noarlunga Centre
The recently revamped Hopgood Theatre is back open for business, and it has 4 fantastic shows on the Fringe calendar.
Everyb0dy’s G0t a B0mb is a raw and unflinching new dance work by Riley Fitzgerald, created in the wake of his departure from Sydney Dance Company.
The NIRVANA Unplugged Experience takes the audience back to 1993 for a hauntingly faithful recreation of Nirvana's 'MTV: Unplugged In New York'.
Celebrating their 10th Adelaide Fringe season, The 60 Four return as one of SA’s most loved acts with a dazzling new Las Vegas-style show, Hits of the '60s and '70s.
Finally, Don’t Stop Us Now! is an all-singing, all-dancing concert from Sisters of Abundance Theatre, featuring joyous singing, fabulous songs, vibrant presentation and innovative choreography.
Old Noarlunga
Funny Adelaide returns for Mocking the Suburbs – a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians at The Old Noarlunga.
Port Noarlunga
Port Noarlunga’s art precinct, as always, will be awash with Fringe offerings.
Sauerbier House has 3 exhibitions. Building and construction terrains by Alan Cook, explores the links between homelessness, sound and the built environment. Falling Open (not apart) by Margit Brünner, explores the formation of identity as a response to place. Site Seeing Site by Callum Docherty responds to the surroundings of Port Noarlunga through a series of critical documentations.
The Arts Centre will also play host to 3 performances. The 2-hour Adelaide Fringe Comedy Gala will bring the best of the Fringe and world-class comedians to Port Noarlunga. Charlee Watt: SHE ROCKS: Love, Lyrics and Legacies (pictured), which celebrates the powerhouse voices, bold stories and unstoppable spirit of Australian women in rock. Finally, Jobless is a unique comedy performance featuring Lindi Jane and a ventriloquist’s struggle living in a share house with puppets.
Sellicks Beach
Wine Down, Fly High blends the art of winemaking with the beauty and strength of contemporary aerial circus on the lawn area at Berg Herring Wines.
Pictured
Charlee Watt will perform onstage at Port Noarlunga's Arts Centre during the Fringe.