Secret Garden Festival

The Secret Garden Festival is a 48-hour forest-themed dress-up festival located in Sydney. The festival provides music as well as small parties, plays, comedy, games and art. With over 5,000 patrons attending each year, the festival has and continues to raise money for charities.[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 newcomers 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 Central station.

Artist Lineups

2016

2015

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

2012

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
  1. "ABOUT". Secret Garden Festival. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  2. "CHARITIES". Secret Garden Festival. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  3. "Secret Garden festival announces killer 2015 line-up | Music News | triple j". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  4. "Secret Garden Festival 2015". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  5. "Live Review: Secret Garden Festival - Cobbitty (28.02.15) | the AU review". the AU review. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  6. "Secret Garden Festival 2015 Hits It Out of the Ball Pit". concreteplayground.com. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  7. "PSA: Secret Garden 2016 Has Been Extended To Two Days". Pedestrian.TV. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
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