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Meredith Music Festival
Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre (night).jpg
Location(s) Victoria, Australia
Years active 1991 – present
Date(s) 11 December – 13 December 2009
Genre various
Website Meredith Music Festival

The Meredith Music Festival is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre,[1] a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in Victoria, Australia. A self-funded non-commercial event first held in 1991,[2] Meredith spawned Golden Plains, a music festival which takes place over the Labor day long weekend in March. [3]

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Description

The festival is held on a property owned by the family of one of the organisers, Chris Nolan[4] near the town of Meredith. Since the Nolans own the site, permanent infrastructure has been built including showers, compost toilets, and recycled water with the surrounding areas setup for usage of tents, vans, caravans or motorhomes.

Artist Lineup

Main article: List of Meredith Music Festival lineups by year

Attractions

  • The Meredith Gift (a reference to the Stawell Gift) is a nude running race, with the chance to win The Golden Jocks trophy. [5]
  • The Pink Flamingo Bar, an ever-popular cocktail bar [6]
  • A sportsfield which includes the Meredith Eye ferris wheel.[7]
  • The Ecoplex Cinema displays both short and feature length films, including outdated informational films, advertisements and television shows intended to humour the audience. [8]

Ticketing

Ticketing is implemented via a system which sees the first allocation distributed through a 'Subscriber Ticket Ballot' - allowing half of the total allocation of tickets randomly distributed to 'subscribers' already on MMF's email list. Subscribers are notified in August and need to purchase their tickets within a set period of time. [9]

The second allocation is sold in record stores in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and the Surf Coast as has been the case in previous years. These go on sale after the Ballot closes. The third allocation is distributed online.[9]

Then...finally...despite all our best efforts, we assume there will still be some disappointed people out there. So...in an effort to mend some potential broken hearts...there will be a finite quantity of tickets issued by Aunty at her complete personal discretion. These will be allocated to some of those that she considers to be, for example, most passionate, or deserving, or unlucky, or having traveled the farthest, or been there the most times, etcetera. These can only be applied for after the rest of the tickets have sold out.
—Meredith Music Festival [10]

References

  1. ^ "Golden Plains - Meredith Supernatural Amphitheater". Retrieved on August 10, 2009
  2. ^ November 24, 2006.Mud, sweat and beers. The Age, Retrieved on July 30, 2009
  3. ^ "Golden Plains" Retrieved on August 31, 2009
  4. ^ Patrick Donovan, March 7, 2009. "Merediths golden child turns three, and the rock kids join in the party"The Age, Retrieved on July 30, 2009
  5. ^ Dewi Cooke, December 12, 2005. Meredith Music Festival. The Age, Retrieved on July 30, 2009
  6. ^ http://2009.mmf.com.au/what-goes-on/pink-flamingo-bar/
  7. ^ Jo Roberts, December 14, 2004 Finding treasure in Meredith. The Age, Retrieved on July 30, 2009
  8. ^ http://2009.mmf.com.au/what-goes-on/ecoplex-cinema/
  9. ^ a b Michelle Griffin, December 9, 2007. Summer will rock - if you're lucky enough to get a ticket. The Age, Retrieved on July 30, 2009
  10. ^ http://www.mmf.com.au/2008/tickets/

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