Overview
Prancing through fields laced with the charm of provincial France? Casual summer weekendery.
The ever-popular So Frenchy So Chic in the Park is waltzing back to Melbourne's Werribee Park Mansion for its seventh year running, while in Sydney it will be return to the Glebe waterfront at Bicentennial Park for the second time. The event will also head to Adelaide for its debut. If you haven't been before, expect an entire afternoon of French-inspired niceties — think gourmet picnic hampers, tortes and terrines, offensively good wine, furious outdoor chess, casual gypsy beats.
So Frenchy hinges around a solid lineup of eclectic artists you may be yet to meet. There's Nigerian-born French rapper Féfé, San Fran-based French jazz-funk soul guru Hervé Salters (aka General Elektriks) and dream-pop band Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains, who are sure to get your dancing barefoot around your cheese platter.
If you're not the most organised of picnickers, So Frenchy is putting on the works again with their beloved picnic boxes and cheese plates from Ed Dixon in Melbourne and Simmone Logue in Sydney. Filled with buttery pastry quiches, salad jardinière and goose egg meringue, the picnic boxes are one to preorder if you don't want to miss out. But So Frenchy won't let you go hungry; there'll be a huge banquet of seafood, crepes, macarons and cheese available on the day, along with a menu from Bistrot Gavorche in Sydney and L'Hotel Gitan in Melbourne. And of course, there'll be plenty of Laurent Perrier Champagne, French beer, Provence rosé, Bordeaux reds and whites, and special cocktails at the SFSC vintage caravan.
Don your best floral-headband-and-sundress-combo and gear up for un merveilleux après-midi.
SO FRENCHY SO CHIC IN THE PARK 2018
Friday, January 12 — Pinky Flat, Adelaide
Sunday, January 14 — Werribee Park, Melbourne
Saturday, January 20 — Bicentennial Park, Sydney
So Frenchy So Chic in the Park will head to Melbourne Sydney and Adelaide in January 2017. Early bird tickets are on sale now until October 10 for $79. From then on, tickets will be $89 online or $99 on the door. For more info, visit sofrenchysochic.com.au.
Image: Simon Shiff.