Next year’s Adelaide Fringe program has been gradually swelling over the past few weeks, and now with the newly revealed 2016 Garden of Unearthly Delights lineup our famously hectic festival season is really taking shape.

With big, reliable names like Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes and Kate Miller-Heidke already announced, the full spread boasts a dizzying selection of familiar and new acts from right across the entertainment spectrum. Returning to the Garden next year is Velvet, the crowdpleasing disco collaboration between Marcia Hynes and Brendan MacLean, the world’s most famous sad clown Puddles Pity Party and Le Gateau Chocolat in a new show with Johnny Woo exploring the world of musicals. There’s also Hannah Gadsby, Kate Ceberano, Sammy J & Randyland, The Axis of Awesome, Germein Sisters and Tom Ballard.

“We cannot wait for 2016, it’s going to be an incredible season,” the Garden’s Michelle Buxton says of the program. “There are over 100 different shows to choose from including music, circus, theatre, dance, cabaret and this year we even have visual arts. You are guaranteed to find something you will love.”

Interesting new additions include tongue-in-cheek Jurassic Park remake Dinosaur Park, Guardian cartoonist First Dog On The Moon, and Massaoke – that’s mass karaoke for the uninitiated. While previous Adelaide arts festivals have dabbled in the mysterious art form, with an 800 capacity this Edinburgh hit looks set to take it to new, ridiculous heights.

Local highlights include The Audreys, Melbourne-based Adelaide expat Demi Lardner, Peter Combe and Hans. Factor in the usual mix of food, stalls, rides and stand up comedians crammed into every nook, tent and cranny that Rymill Park can hold, it should be another big year.

Garden of Unearthly Delights 2016 program

¡Macumbia!
A Simple Space by Gravity & Other Myths
Abandoman – Life and Rhymes
Ah Hum! – SABOREA LA VIDA
Amazing Drumming Monkeys – The” Tree” show
Amelia Ryan is Lady Liberty
An Evening with First Dog on the Moon
Arrr we there yet?!
BankSA Free Concert Series
Best of the Edinburgh Fest
Big Top Bonanza
Butt Kapinski
Calypso Nights: Juan, Two?
Captain Fun Pants and the Mystery of the FunOmatic Fun Wand
Children are Stinky
Chopper’s Republic of Anzakistan
Circus Trick Tease – Straya
Colin Cloud – Kills
Colin Hay Live
Ryan Good – Cosmonaut
CULT
Darren Middleton
Dave Hughes – Sweet
Dave Thornton – So On and So Forth
David Quirk – Approaching Perfection
Defrosted
Demi Lardner – Life Mechanic
Dinosaur Park
DivaLicious – A Licence to Trill
DJ Phone Home
Duckie – Le Gateau Chocolat
EastEnd Cabaret – Perverts
EastEnd Cabaret – Yeti’s Demon Dive Bar
Eddie Ifft – Excess Baggage
EUROWISION
Exposing Edith
Frank Woodley – Noodlenut
Germein Sisters
Grumble – Sex Clown Saves The World
Hannah Gadsby – Dogmatic
Harley Breen – Smell the Penguins
Heartache & Drum Breaks
Heckle!
How to be a Rock Star
Ian D Montfort – Ian Talk
If You See Her, Say Hello
iOTA – Wolf Number Nine
Ivan Aristeguieta’s Chorizo Sizzle
Jo Lawry live at the Spiegeltent
Jon Stevens
Jonny Woo & Le Gateau Chocolat – A Night At The Musicals
Justin Hamilton – Hoot
Kate Ceberano
Kate Fuller – Hop, Skip, Swing
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kids Just Wanna Have Fun – Back to the 80s
Knee Deep
MASSAOKE
Michael Griffiths – Cole
Miles and Simone
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall
Nath Valvo – Tongue in Cheek
Nazeem Hussain – Hussain In The Membrane
Peter & Bambi Heaven, The Magic Inside
Peter Combe – Big Kids Night Out Revisited
Peter Combe – Mr Clicketty Cane Chopsticks
Peter Helliar – One Hot Mess
Puddles Pity Party – Potluck
PULPSHOW
Rich Hall
Russell Morris
Sam Simmons – Not A People Person
Sammy J & Randy Land
SEASTAR ROCK
Shirley Gnome – C*untry Music
Simon Taylor – Human
Starman
Strong Female Character
Stuart Bowden – She Was Probably Not A Robot
Tessa Waters Over Promises
The Amy Winehouse Show – Back to Black
The Audreys
The Axis of Awesome – Won’t Ever Not Stop Giving Up
The Black Sorrows
The Garden Sessions
The Gremlins
The Lone Star Show – Proudly Support beyondblue The Pierce Brothers
The Singhing Sisters present Opera Meets Jazz
The Stand Up Show
Tink Tank
Tolu
Tom Ballard – The World Keeps Happening
Tom Binns – The Club Sets
Tom Gleeson – Great
Tommy Little – Dickhead
Tony Roberts – Card Magic
Trash Test Dummies
UNTAPPED
VELVET
Viva Hans Vegas
Wank Bank Master Class
Wil Anderson – Fire at Wil
WTF Renaissance
Z-Star (UK) with Special Guest Samuel Marzola

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