Secret Garden Festival
Secret Garden is a two-day camping festival of music, play, creativity and good old fashioned fun. Its a festival put on by friends, for friends. The festival takes place annually at a secret location, one hour out of Sydney. It is held amongst the beautiful wilderness, which is transformed into areas bursting with music, creativity, surprises and all kinds of entertainment.[1]
Location
Secret Garden is located one hour south of Sydney. The location is kept secret until a few days prior to the event, when all new comers are sent an email with the address. It can be accessed via car, or if not there is a bus package available to ticket holders, which leaves from Sydney's Central Station.
Artist Lineups
2015
- Ariane
- Baro
- Client Liaison
- Devotional
- Donny Benét (Solo)
- Fishing
- Frames
- Gang of Youths
- Gooch Palms
- Grace
- Heartbeat DJs
- Heather Woods Broderick
- Holiday Sidewinder
- Hot Dub Time Machine
- I Oh You DJs
- Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders
- Japanese Wallpaper
- Jeremy Neale
- Joe Liddy & The Skeleton Horse
- JÜAN DU SOL
- Lake Street Dive
- Le Fruit DJs
- Levins
- Little Bastard
- Little May
- Love Bombs
- LUCIANBLOMKAMP
- Luen
- Luluc
- Lunice
- Mike Who
- Milwaukee Banks
- No Zu
- Oh Mercy
- Oisima
- Parquet Courts
- Pepa Knight
- Peter Combe
- Purple Sneakers DJs
- Remi
- Rolls Bayce
- RY4
- San Holo
- Shag
- Shantan Wantan Ichiban
- Sharon Van Etten
- Softwar B2B Slow Blow
- Spookyland
- Stereogamous ft. Shaun J. Wright
- Steve Smyth
- Stolen Violin
- Tees
- The Griswolds
- The Morrisons
- Total Giovanni
- UV Boi
- Velociraptor
- Willow Beats
- Wintercoats
- Yo Grito! DJs
- Yon Yonson
2014
- Alex Cameron
- Ariane
- Blank Realm
- Bloods
- Client Liaison
- Cosmos Midnight
- D. D. Dumbo
- Day Ravies
- Dusty Fingers
- DZ Deathrays
- Elizabeth Rose
- Ernest Ellis
- Goldroom
- Joyride
- Ken Davis
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- Lancelot
- Levins
- Little May
- Love Bombs
- Mighty Mouse
- Mike Who
- Nantes
- Olympia
- Palms
- Papa Vs Pretty
- Richard In Your Mind
- Roland Tings
- Ryan Hemsworth
- Shantan Wantan Ichiban
- Shining Bird
- Slowblow & Softwar
- Steve Smyth
- Straight Arrows
- Sures
- The Beatnix
- The Donny Benét Show Band
- The Rubens
- The Trouble with Templeton
- True Vibenation
- Wordlife
- World's End Press
2013
- Alison Wonderland
- Caitlin Park
- Cliques
- Collarbones
- Cub Scouts
- DCUP
- Frames
- Furnance and the Fundamentals
- Joyride
- Lancelot
- Little Bastard
- Little May
- Oliver Tank
- Pelvis
- Rainbow Chan
- Rüfüs
- Softwar & Slowball
- Spit Syndicate
- The Aston Shuffle
- The Delta Riggs
- The Griswolds
- The Preatures
- Vance Joy
2012
- Alison Wonderland
- Castlecomer
- DreamDelay
- Emma Davis
- Evan and the Brave
- Fanny Lumsden
- Georgia Fair
- Horse Meat Disco (UK)
- Jack Carty
- Joyride (DJ Set)
- Kira Puru and the Bruise
- New Navy
- Owl Eyes
- R + R
- SlowBlow
- Softwar
- Sticky Fingers
- The Aston Shuffle DJs
- The Be Sharps
- The Essential Stix
- The Preachers
- Tin Sparrow
- Wordlife (Bang Gang 12 inches)
Charities
All proceeds made at Secret Garden are donated each year to various charities. Over the past seven years Secret Garden has raised more than $200,000 for charities including Oxfam, The Sarah Hilt Foundation and The Girls & Boys Brigade.[2]
Reception
Since its conception in 2009, Secret Garden has grown incredibly. In 2015 Australian radio station Triple J' named it 'One of Australia's much-loved boutique festivals...providing two days worth of ace artists at a secret dairy farm'.[3] Time Out Sydney also praised the festival, telling punters 'This is a good one, though, and worth the mystery. They keep the crowds at a limited capacity, the vibe is loved-up and the site teems with secret pathways and hidden pop-ups housing food, art and entertainment.' [4]
Other reviews include:
'A magical, wild and completely creative festival of music and art'.[5]- The AU Review
'Pillow forts, giant jellyfish and kissing booths — this independent festival has and always will be built by and for the people.' [6] - Concrete Playground
'The most magical of festivals to grace the Australian music scene' [7]- Pedestrian TV
References
- ↑ "ABOUT". Secret Garden Festival. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "CHARITIES". Secret Garden Festival. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "Secret Garden festival announces killer 2015 line-up | Music News | triple j". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "Secret Garden Festival 2015". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "Live Review: Secret Garden Festival - Cobbitty (28.02.15) | the AU review". the AU review. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "Secret Garden Festival 2015 Hits It Out of the Ball Pit". concreteplayground.com. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- ↑ "PSA: Secret Garden 2016 Has Been Extended To Two Days". Pedestrian.TV. Retrieved 2015-12-17.