Cherry Harmony FestivalDown South With a Cherry on Top Every year in December, Manjimup hosts the Cherry Harmony Festival
to celebrate the start of the cherry season. This year
the festival begins on Friday the 15th of December and
continues through to Sunday the 17th. The festive mood is
set on Friday night when Manjimup hosts the Cherry Ball,
a night of live music (big band) and dancing, which is
expected to rock on into the small wee hours . As the sun
rises on Saturday morning, the streets of the town centre
will be closed off to traffic and the 5,000 expected
visitors will be treated to live entertainment, cherry
stalls, wood chopping, wine tasting, a bucking bull,
dunking tank and of course the cherry pip spitting
competition.
A Spitting Good Time The cherry pip spitting competition has been
running for over five years and attracts all sorts of
spitters from around the state. The organiser Jon Doust , a well known comedian, author
and genuine all around good guy, continually ups the
competition each year by inviting world renown cherry pip
spitters from just about anywhere he can find them (which
is no mean feat) . The pip spitting competition is being
sponsored by none other than ourselves, GlobeVista . We will be bringing the New
Zealand Cherry Pip Spitting champion to Manjimup to
compete with the locals. Click for more the about
GlobeVista Australasian Cherry Pip Spitting
. Click here for the cherry pip spitting results 2006,
2007 and
2008.
A Long Lunch
Cherry Festival Blog 2006 Cherry Festival Results During the Manjimup Cherry Harmony festival
there are numerous events and competitions happening over
the weekend including 'Chuck the Cherry', Red Wheelbarrow
Race, Crowning of Cherry King & Queen, Pollie Cherry
Pip Spitting and GlobeVista Cherry Pip Spitting
Competition. For people dying to know the latest results
just click on Manjimup Cherry Harmony Festival Results
2006. Special guests for the 2006 festival were Rob
Palmer (Better Homes and Gardens) and Michael Robinson
(2006 Cherry Pip Spitter, Cromwell, New Zealand).
Global Cherry Pip Spitting Festivals Manjimup is not alone in their cherry
spitting competition.In Michigan, where they proudly boast
being the "Cherry Capital of the World", the International
Cherry Pit Spitting Championship is held every year. The
competition began in 1974 by Heb Teichman, a local cherry
farmer, who was trying to think of something innovative to
do with cherry pits. From small beginnings the local
neighbourhood competition grew to an international
competition. Even the Guinness Book of Records could not
help but recognise it as an official competiton. Every
year hundreds of people flock to the opening of the
'Harvest of Tart Cherries' to watch national and
international pip spitters. "Pellet Gun" Krause from
Arizona held the world record of 72 feet 7 inches (roughly
22m) for nearly 10 years until "Young Gun" Krause (his
son) stole the honours at 100 feet 4 inches (roughly 31m).
In Céret, a little town in France, the annual cherry festival is held in June and provides a colourful weekend of stone spitting, music, dancing and entertainment in the streets. Everyone gets in on the act, local shops decorate their windows in cherry themes, local school children display their paintings and restaurants have nothing but cherry based food on the menus, served with cherry beer. The record in France is believed to be 11m.
In a small town perched high on a hill in Viterbo, Italy, is the Cherries Festival of Celleno's Proloco. Located an hour from Rome the beautiful town, with the Orsinis 's castle as a medieval backdrop, celebrates it's cherry season in June. The festival includes music, exhibitions, cherry tasting and of course the famous 15-metres-long cherry tart (which is shared amongst the festival goers). Important Links To Cherries and Cherry FestivalsCéret Festival
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On Sunday the festival finishes with a
Long Table Lunch for 150 or so guests. The long table
is set in the most exquisite location, amongst the cherry
trees in the Newton Brothers orchard. Harvey Giblett hosts
the event each year and puts on one of the best shows in
the State's South West. The four course meal includes
local cherry produce, black truffles and the best local
wines. For more information about the Cherry Harmony
Festival try