The line-up for an international music festival at McLaren Falls next January is expected to be announced next month – when tickets for the festival go on sale.
The festival is advertised as featuring a three day line-up of planet Earth's finest artists, curated from the reaches of pop, rock, folk, electronica, psychedelia, blues, soul, hip-hop, R&B, world, alternative and beyond.
An international music festival is booked for McLaren Falls.
The lake and bush setting nestled below the Kaimai Ranges - and only 20 minutes drive from Tauranga - features rolling hills, glow worm caves and forests, and an onsite camping experience amongst the wilderness.
Festival director Paxton Talbot's motivation is to create an event with broad appeal and vibrancy to fill a space that has been missing from the New Zealand festival calendar.
"McLaren Falls is a music and arts festival that makes room and welcomes all kinds of music. We want to bring together people from all ages and walks of life to an event that is culturally rich and inspiring. People can relax, they can get wild, they can dance, they can hang back and soak it all in."
With extensive experience working in director roles for music festivals in both New Zealand and throughout Europe, Talbot believes McLaren Falls Festival will "bring a taste of Glastonbury and Coachella to the Pacific in both the style of the lineup and the approach to the festival site".
The festival has been built on the notion of quality of curation and being able to present a relevant and exciting international programme alongside a great mix of Australian and New Zealand artists at the top of their game.
"We've picked these artists with excellence in mind," Talbot says.
"Bands and performers who, no matter their genre, will be able to speak to any member of the audience on some level, just due to their sheer calibre."
The festival aims to attract 10,000 people to the Bay of Plenty for a three-day celebration of music from various reaches of the spectrum, as well as a major music programme on multiple open-air stages, the festival will also feature visual and performing arts, markets, and workshops and wellness, all located in an 'other-worldly' location with lakeside camping, waterfalls and a glow-worm forest.
'The Bay of Plenty is a pretty special place to spend time over the summer and we're just excited to be offering another option for festival lovers to come and enjoy music and arts in a location which is going to create great memories."
The line up for the McLaren Falls Music & Arts Festival will be announced in August with tickets going on sale from August 17 through www.mff.co.nz
6 comments
Okey Dokey.....
Posted on 07-07-2015 16:11 | By sambo's back
will Council funding be required?, as I would like a decent stormwater system, rather than "dancing with sandflies" at McClaren falls, good luck though, as I can certainly see the advantages, and fun to be had, but please not at ratepayers expense.
No, no, no
Posted on 08-07-2015 07:46 | By Smilarkie
I'm all for a great music festival, but not there. If you have any sense you would not hold it there. Left behind after every festival is a mees of tents, rubbish, human waste the list goes on. I can't believe you would even consider this. Hundred of people all pissing in the water falls and lakes, trees being broken. Bottles and cansscattered through the bush. There are hundreds of places this could be. But not in the park. Oh, and to get to the glow worms you need to go by Kayak. Who is going to police that at midnight, with drunk and wasted partygoers, and before you say there will be no alcohol.........whatever. there always is. Worst location ever. Shame
Mclarens park
Posted on 08-07-2015 10:49 | By fizz13
Im all for this and am a local living just up the road, they have had concerts up there before and like any other event that is organised, there are restricted areas and its not going to be all over the park.. Camping at christmas / New years is always packed there, so not going to change much.. it will be organized and restictions, think alot of people need to understand that it not " lets just have a huge concert and trash the place" it will have to be sorted properly with extra portaloos/ showers.. rubbish its a event that a business is doing and Id think they'd want to do it again if it goes well, they have had heaps of concerts in the park over the years and no problems, sorry you moaners, its going to happen its been approved so hard luck..
TECT ALL-TERRAIN PARK in the mix?
Posted on 08-07-2015 11:03 | By Murray.Guy
We have two events(cycling event) now that have McLaren's Falls as a venue which intrigues and to a degree concerns me. Both events I suspect (as we are not told) are recipients of dollops of ratepayer cash. I would have thought TECT All-Terrain Park would have been far more suitable with more camping opportunities, reduced risk to access off the highway, less disruption to a passive public recreation area, less potential for impacts on neighbours , huge parking and green space areas.
Why though....
Posted on 08-07-2015 17:32 | By Jimmy Ehu
can we not be told!!!! Murray it is not Councils job to provide entertainment with ratepayers money, these events as discussed through this forum many times should NOT be propped up with my money, if someone wants to have an event have the cajones to stand alone on your abilities, does Marchwood a brilliant local event hold their hand out?, no Peter does it on his own bat, so why should someone with big ideas get an advantage?
SOMETIMES
Posted on 09-07-2015 06:13 | By s83cruiser
I wonder why I moved to TGA. When I lived on the Kapiti coast I thought TGA was a forward moving innovative place to be so I moved here...Sadly..only to find it is full of nay sayers and NIMBY's. It makes me sick to read posting from people that don't have lives that don't want other people to have lives. all I can say is if you don't like the idea of a music festival at McClaren Falls park DON'T GO THERE!!!!!!!. It is your line of thinking that makes TGA BORING. Yes you read correctly boring!!! It's the nay sayer's and the NIMBY's that cause coach loads of potential regional income head to Rotorua or just anywhere out of our "YOU CAN'T DO THAT, WE DON'T WANT THAT" city. So what if the council assists with a venture. sometimes you have to spend a dollar to make ten.
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