This year the top section will have a dining area while there is a “hipster style themed beer garden” beneath it. 

Andii Mihay Events has designed sections of the rodeo this year, including the VIP lounge. 

Event stylist Jen Termine-Toth said that they used local community group, the Mount Isa Men’s Shed, to design five dry bars for the beer garden. 

The designer business would continue to have these bars in its inventory for future events. 

“Since June the volunteers have been crafting away and creating our newest event furniture pieces, made out of recycled pallets,” Ms Termine-Toth said. 

“These Dry Bars will be the perfect statement piece inside the Isa Rodeo VIP Lounge...and will no doubt hold host to many friendly beers and banter.” 

Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo manager Natalie Flecker said preparations for the rodeo’s design was “all coming through”. 

“It’s good. It’s all coming together, which is nice,” she said when inspecting the dry bars at the men’s shed last Monday. 

“Whenever we can engage local community groups we like to. 

“It’s something the men’s shed can be proud of and is something we can be proud of in the rodeo lounge for the first time this year.” 

Ms Flecker said musician O’Shea will hold an acoustic performance in the VIP section on the Saturday night, and a performance from band Bulldust Take 2. 

The VIP lounge tickets are $299 a day or $599 for three days of rodeo, which includes unlimited beer, premium wine and spirits during the rodeo hours beginning from 11am of the Friday. 

Mount Isa Men’s Shed coordinator Richard Lane said that each dry bar took four hours to make.

A rodeo sponsor donated pallets, the materials needed, to make the bars. They were broken down and built. 

“The Men’s Shed project provides a place where men can get away and just be men, and do what men do,” Mr Lane said. 

“There’s no age restriction for all men over 18.” 

The men’s shed in Alma Street, underneath cancer house, is open on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm, and Thursdays from 10.30am to 1.30pm.