La Festa - Faces of Australia is Griffith's International, Music, Food and Wine Festival.

The festival is held annually on Easter Saturday in the city's picturesque main street, Banna Avenue.

This festival is a real celebration of everything the city has to offer, its colourful and dynamic multicultural community and its premium wine and food industry.

La Festa is the perfect family day out with lively and exciting children's entertainment and performances to keep the kids busy for hours while mum and dad sit back and enjoy the music, food and wine.

Every year the festival brings to town some of Australia's most exciting and dynamic world music performers. Highlights over past years have been the high energy performance provided by the 2005 nominee’s for Australia's Best World Music Act, The Borderers. The main stage has also been graced by the Tania Bosak Continental Combo, a wildly dynamic and energetic Continental Quintet, featuring a unique blend of Gypsy, Latin, Brazilian, Balkan and Swing! Original interpretations of great Cumbians, Italian love songs and Croatian tangos. It’s safe to say that La Festa has featured a colourful, talented, multicultural line up year in and year out and will continue to do so whilst providing a show second to none!

However, an important aspect of the festival programming is the large component of performances from Griffith's ethnic communities. The community input to the festival is one that displays the unique multiculturalism and community harmony of Griffith.

La Festa is a feast for the senses, with performances up and down Banna Avenue, there will be a huge selection of National and International food on offer and wine to tempt every nose and pallet.

German delicacies such as Kranskis that melt in your mouth, Chinese, Aussie traditional foods, poffertjes - Dutch style pancakes served with strawberries and cream, coffee and pasta.

But what is delicious food, without a good wine to accompany it. The number of wineries represented at La Festa this year has increased, enabling the wineries to cater to every pallet. Local successful wineries will feature their award winning wines and will advise you on how to match particular wines with food and how much better everything tastes when you do.

Sample the wines on offer, you can always return on Sunday and pick up a case of your favourite wine.