Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre

Centre uses

Its biggest event, each year, is the CMAAs, The Country Music Awards of Australia, held in January, during the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Other uses for the centre include:

Centre history

The construction of a large event centre capable of housing a variety of functions on a year-round basis and providing a facility capable of hosting Award ceremonies and concerts associated with the Annual Tamworth Country Music Festival has been on the “drawing boards” in Tamworth for at least 20 years.

Tamworth City Council has decided to construct the Tamworth Regional Exhibition Centre as community owned asset.

The Tamworth Regional Entertainment & Conference Centre has been designed to provide a venue suitable for the staging of multiplicity of large major events, including indoor sports events of an international standard.

Concerts and events

Artists that have performed at TREC include Bob Dylan, Cold Chisel, The Seekers, Leo Sayer, Silverchair, Powderfinger & Missy Higgins, among others.

Australian bands Silverchair & Powderfinger played at the Centre, on 4 September 2007, during their Across the Great Divide Tour, in front of a crowd of 4,500 people.

Other events

1. 2008 Young Drivers Expo
2. Arrive alive Eastern University Games
3. Australian Idol
4. Capers School Specatucular
5. Catholic Schools Celebrate…
6. Case IH Product Launch
7. Cold Chisel
8. Concert of the Century
9. Country Energy – Conference
10. Doobie Bros
11. Drums Tao – Unrivalled Drumming Sepctacular
12. Dwight Yoakam
13. Energy Safety Solutions Exhibition & Competition
14. Food Services Industry & Exhibition
15. Jayco Australia/CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia
16. Jehovah Witness Annual Convention
17. Leo Sayer
18. Local Government Stores Suppliers Exhibition
19. Longway to the Top
20. Livestock & Bulk Carriers Association – Conference & Exhibition
21. Hats Off to Slim Dusty
22. Harlem Gospel Choir
23. Home & Leisure Shows
24. Annual Jehovah's Witness District Convention
25. Namoi Landcare Forum
26. National MG Car Club Rally
27. National View Club Conference
28. North West Dance Festival
29. NSW Country Gymnastics Championships
30. Pink Floyd Tribute
31. Rotary District Conference & Dinner
32. Rural Critical Care Conference
33. School Presentations & Formals
34. Shell Rimula Rig of the Year
35. Silverchair & Powerfinger Tour
36. 75th Anniversary Sydney Symphony Orchestra Concert
37. The Seekers
38. Toyota Country Theatre featuring Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, John Williamson, Melinda Schnieder, Colin Buchanan, Adam Brand, Gina Jeffreys and more!
39. Tamworth & District Chamber of Commerce & Industry Business Awards
40. Thirty Merc
41. Uniting Church Synod Conference & Dinner
42. Westpac Helicopter Annual Ball & Auction
43. Willie Nelson In Concert