2024 Australian Strongman Alliance Invitational WHEN: 10am-6pm on August 11 Watch as some of Australia's top strong men and women take on five gruelling events in an Australian Strongman Alliance competition. The first event will be the Axle Overhead Anyhow where competitors will have three attempts to lift the heaviest axle (50mm diameter barbell) over their heads. This is followed by the Strongman Cornhole where competitors will throw five 10kg sandbags approximately eight metres into a giant cornhole board or over a crossbar for additional points. The third event, aptly named the Truck Tyre Deadlift, features competitors trying to deadlift the heaviest three repetitions they can manage. Rounding out the afternoon will be Event 4: Farmers Walk (competitors race 15 metres up and 15 metres back) and Event 5: Atlas Stones, where six of the large said stones must be hoisted over a one metre crossbar as fast as they can. Each of the five events will run for approximately 45 minutes, with break interspersed with displays to get the crowd involved. This is just the second time the Ekka has hosted the only Queensland qualifier for one of the biggest events internationally, the 2024 Magnus Ver Magnusson Strongman Classic, held in Iceland later this year. Country Music Showdown presented by Ariat Australia WHEN: 9am-12:30pm (Junior Category) & 12:40pm (Junior presentations); 1pm-5pm (Open Category) & 5:10pm (Open presentations) on August 17 This year the Country Music Showdown presented by Ariat Australia celebrates 10 years of unearthing rising stars. Rising country music stars aged 12 years and over will prove their worth in the ultimate music experience, taking to the XXXX Stockmen’s Bar and Grill stage to perform performing two songs to Ekka crowds.
The ultimate search for Queensland’s next ‘big thing’ in country music goes up a level with more than $70,000 in cash prizes for the Open and Junior winners. Competitors will be battling it out for career-boosting prizes including website design and creation by Deeper Look, music video production by Slow Cooked, a scholarship to the Troy Cassar-Daley Academy of Country Music, season pass and chance to perform at the Gympie Music Muster, scheduling of a performance profile package by Capital Country Radio and Country Music Bulletin, photoshoot and images by Renee Brazel Photography, musical equipment gift packs from Guitar Brothers, guitars from Riffs & Licks Music, airplay on Kix Country and best of all (at least in our opinion!) performance opportunity and tickets to Ekka 2025. Ekka’s Line Dancing Hoedown WHEN:11am-3pm on August 14 Kick up your heels and join in the fun at Ekka's Line Dancing Hoedown. This interactive showcase provides entertainment for everyone from social dancing to competition demonstrations and beginner workshops for the public to the Queensland Club Challenge. The hoedown will involve more than 80 boot-scooting dance instructors, club members and students from across Queensland.
Brisbane Cloggers WHEN: 3.30pm-5.30pm on August 14
Kids and adults will once again be clogging at XXXX Stockmen’s Bar and Grill. Clogging is an energetic and percussive dance form dating back to the late 1800s, hailing from the USA’s Appalachian Mountains, but this dance form didn’t arrive in Australia till the 1980s. These days Clogging is enjoyed by people of all ages from 8-year-olds to 80-year-olds. The Brisbane Cloggers will dance to a wide range of music including pop, country, hip hop, bluegrass and Latin. Ekka’s Keppel Dagwood Dog Eating Competition WHEN: 12pm-2pm on August 18 The ultimate food challenge returns to the Stockman’s Bar and Grill, celebrating its fifth anniversary at the Royal Queensland Show. Ekka’s Keppel Dagwood Dog Eating Competition is back by popular demand and will feature two classes - Amateur and Professional. Competitors will have 10 minutes to eat 20 Keppel Dagwood Dogs, or as many as possible. The competition will feature the returning champion - J Webby Can Eat - who is Australia’s number 1 competitive eater and ranked fifth in the world.
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