WITH just under a week to go before this year’s Coffs Harbour International Buskers and Comedy Festival gets underway, organisers are working late into the night to get all those last minute bits and pieces finalised.

The Festival kicks off next Thursday, 3 October with the ever popular Kids Day, before it takes over various venues around town including the city centre, Moonee Beach Hotel, Coffs Harbour Golf Club and Harbourside Markets.

“Every show is different and the event schedule is published elsewhere on this page so check it out and get to the events that suit you,” urged organiser John Logan this week.

“Most of the events are ‘hat’ events where the buskers offer their hat to the audience on completion of the show, but a few like Kids Day and the Unreal Comedy Gala are ticketed where the buskers do not put the hat out.”

Organisers are also proud to advise that several new acts have been added to the adults-only Unreal Comedy Gala at the Coffs Harbour Golf Club on October 4 and 5.

They are HIT 105.5’s Ben Stevenson, along with Northern Rivers comedy powerhouse Mandy Nolan and John Peacock from the Comedy Commune in Byron Bay.

For more information, check out www.coffsharbourbuskers.com or call 6652 8266.