FESTIVALS Splendour In The Grass
Byron Bay Bluesfest
Splendour In the Grass is an annual music and Arts Festival. As well as the latest and best in music from Australia and overseas, the festival also features local arts, crafts and cuisine.
Byron Bay Bluesfest is Australia’s Premier Contemporary multiaward winning Blues & Roots Music Festival. It showcases music from around the world annually on the Easter long weekend on 120 hectares at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, just north of Byron Bay, NSW.
It is held at North Byron Parklands in Yelgun, New South Wales. North of Brunswick Heads. www.splendourinthegrass.com
Flume & Jono Ma
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Falls Festival Byron Bay Every summer since 1993, The Falls Music & Arts Festival has been at the forefront of the east coast Australian festival scene, defining the real different between a mere music festival and a true festival experience. Capturing the essence of the Australian summer spirit, Falls embraces diversity, sustainability and community within a contemporary music event like no other. It is held at North Byron Parklands. www.fallsfestival.com/byron-bay
Brunswick Heads Fish &
Byron Writers Festival
Chip Festival
The annual Byron Writers Festival is Australia’s largest and leading regional celebration of storytelling, literature and ideas.
Established as a community based ‘not for
profit’ organisation the Brunswick Valley Woodchop & Entertainment Committee Inc.
hosts the Festival Of The Fish ‘n’ Chips each year as a lead up to their Woodchop Carnival
Each year they present more than 150 sessions during Festival Week and attract an audience of approximately 12,000 people (or 70,000 individual attendances) in the stunning surrounds of Byron Bay.
which draws international contestants from New Zealand, the US and Canada. The Brunswick Woodchop Carnival is currently regarded as the biggest woodchopping
event outside the Sydney and Brisbane shows. Fireworks held on the river give an
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amazing display.
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