February 2019;

Friday the 1st; Hovert Gonzales playing accoustic Guitar in the front bar

Friday the 8th;  Michael Phillips singing to his Guitar in Front Bar

Friday the 15th: Hovert Gonzales playing his accoustic Guitar in the front bar

Saturday 16th; 'Matthew Barker on Tour' playing with Guitar & vocals in front bar

Friday 22nd; TBA

Woolfest Weekend

The "Boorowa Hotel Irish Woolfest" is an absolute beauty!   September long weekend, Friday 27th to Monday 30th September 2019.  Friday night, live band and 'Finer Dining' at the Boorowa Hotel, Saturday the Quickshear Competitions bringing the best sheep shearers in the industry to compete.  Saturday evening Fireworks.  Then the 'coup de grace' the "Running of the Sheep," and all its associated activities that bring approximately 15,000 visitors to Boorowa for a days stunning entertainment.

Welcome visitors from all Biking Groups!

  ANZAC DAY

The Poem that started Poppy Day

‘In Flanders Fields’

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below

We are the dead, short days ago

We lived, felt down, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders’ fields.

Take up the quarrel with the foe

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields

On April 22^nd, 1915, while British, Australian, New Zealand and other European  troops were making final preparations to land at ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, in Europe the German army launched its first infamous poison gas attack of the Great War in the battle which was to become known as Second Ypres.

The 1^st Canadian Brigade, supported by the French Colonial troops, had been thrust into Ypres Salient in an attempt to stem the German attack and at 5pm, on that fateful day, were enveloped in rolling yellowish green chlorine gas.

Taken completely by surprise, many men died where they stood, but somehow those who were able to survive the highly poisonous vapour were able to hold the line and prevent the enemy pouring through the gap.

History records the following 16 days of fighting, suffering and dying as one of the bloodiest battles of the war, with Allied forces suffering tremendous casualties while repulsing a series of furious German assaults.

In an exposed dugout on the west bank of the Yser Canal, just north of the burning Belgian City of Ypres, Canadian medical officer Major John McCrae cared for an unceasing flow of his wounded countryman, many of whom rolled down the embankment into the dressing station.

McCrae, a trained artillery officer who had seen action in the Boer War, spent endless hours ministering to the wounded and at times was also required to relieve the battery commander from the Brigade’s 16 18 pounder guns – a task he appeared to accept as normal for he was still a gunner at heart.

It was in this setting of bloodshed and suffering in the war devastated country of Flanders that Major McCrae watched with dismay the growing forest of crosses, expanding to the cemetery dotted with wild red poppies, as troops buried their dead whenever the battle permitted.

On Monday, May 3, during a short respite in the arrival of wounded at the first aid post, this tragic scene inspired him to write the soul stirring lines that have immortalised the red poppy of Flanders as the international symbol of remembrance for the fallen in battle.

‘In Flanders Field’ was written in pencil on a torn page from a dispatch book.  It first appeared in ‘Punch’ on December 8, 1915, and immediately touched the hearts of civilians in all Allied countries.

It was printed in newspapers and magazines throughout the English-speaking world and has been recited at memorial services ever since.

John McCrea never returned home.

In 1918 he died of pneumonia aggravated by the distressing chronic effects of the highly toxic chlorine gas which he had breathed three years earlier.  He was 45.

In New Zealand the Returned Services Association uses the proceeds of Poppy Day to benefit al veterans – usually healthcare in rest homes and hospitals – whether they are members of the association or not.

Here at the Boorowa Hotel, we honour and uphold with respect the great traditions ANZAC soldiers have provided us.

Valentines Dinner

"Drink to me only with thine eyes,

and I will pledge with mine!"

“Patron of the Year?”

Australia Day has become the largest annual civic event in Australia

It was a pleasure for the Boorowa Hotel to host the official welcoming dinner to meet our Australian Day ambassador Zoe Naylor.   Zoe is a well-known, much loved Australian film, television and theatre personality.

The Boorowa Hotel also took great pleasure in announcing the Inaugural “Top Pub Patron of the Year” Award for 2013.  

This prestigious award goes to a gentleman who is a family man, has been a shearer, and is a farmer, a historian, a wonderful communicator and possesses a humour that is extremely infectious!  

Congratulations to Mr Stanley Corcoran of Boorowa who fought off intensely strong competition to take out the main prize of ‘Top Pub Patron of the Year 2013.’

Stan has brightened many eyes and put a smile on so many faces over the last year.   He is a great philosopher and is at ease in discussing any topic and does so with an informed and wide knowledge base.   There is always a glint in his eye that proclaims his ever present brilliant and sharp humour.

Stan is an absolute 'Top Bloke!'