Gympie Music Muster
All roads lead to the Gympie Music Muster this weekend, with organisers already celebrating a bumper crowd with four-day passes sold out.
Music lovers have been gathering in the Amamoor Creek State Forest for weeks in the lead-up to Australia’s biggest music and camping not-for-profit festival and CEO Greg Cavanagh said numbers were up again this year, after record crowds in 2022.
“We have more campers and we will have more than 10,000 people on site on Saturday, alone, along with more four-day ticket holders and having to open up new camping grounds,” he said.
Mr Cavanagh has been involved with the Gympie Music Muster, initially as an Apex Club member, for more than 20 years and said the Muster is a bucket list item for many Australians.
“We always get a lot of first timers, as well as the hard and fast return patrons who come every year no matter what,” he said.
“It is truly the friendly festival and people come for the camping experience, the reunion of mates and the overall friendly vibe.”
Breakfast television has already been here, capturing the vibe from the festival site, with Sunrise’s Sam Mac and crew at the Muster bright and early this morning.
This year, return patrons will notice the festival in the forest has a wider variety of music genres on offer with rock bands including Wolfmother, The Angels, Hoodoo Gurus and Screaming Jets rubbing shoulders with bush balladeers, blues artists and contemporary country acts from here and overseas.
Headliners include Morgan Evans, Midland, Dan Davidson, Casey Barnes, Busby Marou, Kasey Chambers, and Troy Cassar-Daley and regular patrons will notice a few upgrades across the festival site.
“We’ve upgraded the blues tent and the rodeo arena and improved capacity there so more people can see the bull ride,” Mr Cavanagh said.
“We’ve also refreshed a lot of our infrastructure and our facades and spent a lot of money on vegetation management in the campgrounds to improve our camping capacity.”
Being not-for-profit, there are at least 25 community groups involved and benefiting from the 2023 Gympie Music Muster with TIACS being the charity partner this year to raise awareness and funds for mental health services.
“It’s a great cause and I’ve bought a bright shirt for Funky Shirt Friday and we will be raising more money with the Sportsman’s lunch that will feature special guest NRL and Maroons great, Trevor “The Axe” Gillmeister.”
This year, those on site will also get a sneak peek at what the Muster has in store for August 2024 with an artist announcement slated for Sunday, August 27.
August 24 – 27, 2023 - Amamoor Creek State Forest
The Gympie Music Muster is supported by the Gympie Regional Council and Queensland Government via Tourism and Events Queensland and is a feature on the It's Live! in Queensland events calendar.
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