Your guide to the Fringe down south
Published on 17 February 2025
The world-renowned Adelaide Fringe festival returns this Friday 21 February until Sunday 23 March and, as always, the City of Onkaparinga is packed with events and art.
Looking to take in a show but don’t want to head into the CBD? No sweat! There are dozens of events happening in the City of Onkaparinga, offering everything from comedy, music, art exhibitions and cabaret, to trivia, storytelling and circus.
The 25 events are spread across 20 venues and 15 suburbs, with some shows having already sold out and others selling fast. The council’s Arts Centre and Sauerbier House in Port Noarlunga will again be hives of activity, with star-studded comedy shows, a Beatles-fuelled cabaret performance and a dystopian art exhibition on offer.
We’ve arranged all of Onkaparinga’s events by suburb for you below, but you can also check out the Adelaide Fringe’s list of City of Onkaparinga events. Click on the links for more info on dates, times, ticket prices and availability.
Aberfoyle Park
AMVC Songs from Screen and Stage
Get ready for an unforgettable time with the renowned Adelaide Male Voice Choir as they bring the magic of film and stage to life! From Broadway hits to Hollywood classics, this concert promises a thrilling journey through your favourite musical moments. With stunning performances and a vibrant atmosphere, it’s the perfect event for music lovers of all ages.
Aldinga/Aldinga Beach
The Fleetwood Mc Experience – The Mac Band Live!
Adelaide’s premier Fleetwood Mac tribute band, hailing from the McLaren Vale wine region, The MAC brings a classic 70/80s California sound experience, sharing the songs and stories behind some of the greatest songs in the history of rock and roll.
Granny Flaps – Wide Open Spaces Roadshow
Buckle in! Award-winning comedian Granny Flaps is hitting the road with her brand-new show. Known for her sharp wit, infectious energy, and unapologetic humour, Granny Flaps is heading to towns and suburbs near you. A true icon in the comedy scene, she has delighted fans with her hilarious takes on love, life, friends, and family and this new show promises to be her most entertaining yet.
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Couldn’t Stand The Weather – Cass Crichton and Cold Shot
Join Cass Crichton and Cold Shot for a powerful night of blues, featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan’s seminal album Couldn't Stand The Weather. Experience the sharp guitar work and heavy rhythms that define Vaughan’s legacy.
South Coast Circus Variety Show
Dazzling, daring, and diverse – the South Coast Circus Variety Show is back, and it's bigger, bolder, and more breathtaking than ever before! Join us under the big top as we celebrate the incredible talents and diversity of the south, a vibrant showcase of skills from seasoned and up-and-coming performers, the South Coast Circus Tribe Team.
Hackham
Outback Comedy
Get ready, South Australia! Outback Comedy is bringing the country's best stand-up talent straight to your town as part of Adelaide Fringe. Expect side-splitting laughs and a night of pure Aussie comedy gold.
Christies Beach
The Fellowship Tales
Enjoy an enchanting evening of original contemporary fables. This hour-long storytelling performance is inspired by people in Letitia’s life. With a folkloric, fantastical feel, the stories are a written love letter to friends, connecting the audience in unexpected ways. Over the hour, audiences are transported to magical places for reflection and awe.
Clarendon
Dave Clark Folk Singer Concert
Join South Australian Music Hall of Fame inductee, Dave Clark, and friends for an afternoon of folk songs by the Onkaparinga River and the birds.
Singing Gazebo Sessions Clarendon
Enjoy three different sessions – a folk concert, ukelele performance, and Clark & Rilstone Family Concert at this wonderful, artistic, acoustic venue adjacent to RiverBend Park by the Onkaparinga River in Clarendon.
Coromandel Valley
Schnits and Giggles Comedy
What’s better than a night of non-stop laughs? A night of non-stop laughs with a schnitzel! Schnits and Giggles is your ultimate combo of great food and even greater comedy, hosted by Marc Ryan, the Beautiful Bogan. Bringing together the best international, national, and local comedic talent, this show serves up a side of laughs with your schnitty.
Kangarilla
Adelaide Baroque Quartet
Let Adelaide Baroque take you on a journey into musical history with a vitality that is timeless – relevant to life in 2024 and beyond! Since 1977, Adelaide Baroque has gained a reputation for original and creative programming performing a vast array of chamber music for smaller ensembles, featuring soloists on historic instruments.
McLaren Vale
Red Poles Indigenous Fringe Festival
This festival delivers an intimate showcase for art, music, cultural and contemporary performance, with a window into the oldest living culture on Earth. The festival is unique as a platform for collaboration, conversation and a showcase for work from remote communities. Multi-dimensional experiences are presented through storytelling, performance, food and art.
ADDiCTED music mime dance
ADDiCTED is a true-to-life story and deals with a serious issue in an artistic way. Mime: Adam Jackson (Jacques) struggles to take control of his life without a word. Dance: Rosemary Ochtman (Jacques’ friend) has a bubbly façade and her wavering voice of persuasion will have you guessing. As the voice of Jacque’s wife, the effects are clear. Music: Sanny Veloo wonders how he can help and has composed most of the songs, collaborating with Andrew Cooper’s lyrics and some of his own.
Telegraph Road – Dire Straits Tribute presented by Glenn Skuthorpe
Renowned for his Mark Knopfler playing style, Glenn Skuthorpe presents songs of Dire Straits. Immerse yourself in some true classics with this music that transcends time.
Old Noarlunga
Bogan Bingo
Bogan Bingo is back for its 16th straight year at the Adelaide Fringe! It's the longest running rock n roll comedy bingo night in the southern hemisphere... it has to be surely?! Expect a night of punchy humour, nostalgia, singalongs, interactive stuff and outright fun! All venues are available for meals and drinks.
Funny Adelaide: Mocking the Suburbs
After three sell-out shows last year, Funny Adelaide is back to mock even more suburbs in 2025. Mocking the Suburbs is a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians all for approximately the price of getting a carpark in the city.
Port Noarlunga
Akmal – Red Flags
Akmal returns to Adelaide with a brand-new show title, ‘Red Flags’. It is one of the best titles he’s come up with in years; this demonstrates his incredible ability to come up with original and thought-provoking names for shows.
Weathered | Susan Bruce | Solo Exhibition
Steel giants dance against a backdrop of smog-choked skies, and giant worms weave in and out of cranes. Solitary figures symbolic of a collective consciousness. Through the haunting beauty of cranes, both as symbols of progress and harbingers of a dystopian reality, Bruce explores despair, hope, and the profound impact of a decaying world on the individual psyche.
Beating Up The Beatles
Beating a new beat for lovers of The Beatles is Charlee Watt, powerhouse vocalist and recent Adelaide Critics Circle Emerging Artist Award winner. After also winning the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Encore Award, Charlee and her own FAB4 are ready to bring back the vibes.
[SOLD OUT] Adelaide Fringe Comedy Gala: Bringing The Best of the Fringe to Port Noarlunga
Featuring a specially selected line-up of top-notch international comedy visitors to Adelaide, all packed into one huge two-hour gala show. There are four world-class comedians performing extended sets, plus a compere, with each of the comedians specially selected from Fringe venues all around town, as some of the top international comedians bringing their shows to this year's Fringe.
Port Willunga
[Sold out] Transmission – into the dark
The sell-out hit of the Melbourne Fringe and winner of the SA Touring Award. Set exclusively within the environs of Port Willunga, Transmission – into the dark invites audiences to embark on an intimate nocturnal journey that interweaves site-specific radio, installation, night-walking and the sky. A night where the strange is real and the real is strange.
Reynella East
Fringe@REC
Come along to an evening of student works and performances including dance, drama, music, visual art and film in Reynella East College’s courtyard spaces. Enjoy food and drinks available from the kitchen and licensed pop-up bar, and relax under the festival lights in the beautiful college grounds.
Seaford
Kel and Amy’s Comedy Road Trip
The 2024 weekly Spirit of the Fringe award winners are back for another lap around SA. SA’s Kel Balnaves and NT’s Amy Hetherington (Best Comedy – Fringe World 2023) have packed the VS Commodore full of relatable stories and piss-funny jokes. They’re heading to regional SA and the burbs. A ripper night out in your neck of the woods.
Funny Quiz: 90s Edition
Stop. Collaborate. Listen. Funny Quiz is winding the clock back to when pants were happy, shoes pumped up and movies completed you. Your host is Jono Makai, comedian and three-time national TV quiz show loser. He'll -be joined by other Fringe comedians for questions, answers and games including 'Pin the Abs on Brad Pitt' and 'Modra in my Box'. First place wins $200 and the coveted Funny Quiz VHS trophy.
[Sold out] Funny Adelaide: Mocking the Suburbs
After three sell-out shows last year, Funny Adelaide is back to mock even more suburbs in 2025. Mocking the Suburbs is a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians all for approximately the price of getting a carpark in the city.
Woodcroft
Funny Adelaide: Mocking the Suburbs
After three sell-out shows last year, Funny Adelaide is back to mock even more suburbs in 2025. Mocking the Suburbs is a 90-minute showcase of the funniest Fringe comedians all for approximately the price of getting a carpark in the city.
Adelaide Fringe Comedy/Variety Showcase
Experience a night of comedy, music, magic, and more, with guest performers from across the Fringe.
Granny Flaps – Wide Open Spaces Roadshow
Buckle in! Award-winning comedian Granny Flaps is hitting the road with her brand-new show. Known for her sharp wit, infectious energy, and unapologetic humour, Granny Flaps is heading to towns and suburbs near you. A true icon in the comedy scene, she has delighted fans with her hilarious takes on love, life, friends, and family and this new show promises to be her most entertaining yet.