Overview
Get off the mainland and pay a trip to Tasmania, whose brand new music festival is just around the corner. Held on the remnants of a pink crystal beach two hours west of Hobart, the inaugural Rose Quartz Music & Arts Festival is being sold as a "sensory escape to the wilderness", and is due to go down during the first weekend in April. You'd best get in quick though, since there are just 500 tickets available – and if their newly released lineup is anything to go by, they might not last very long.
Music acts tapped for the festival include Andras, Roland Tings, Wax'o Paradiso, Bronze Savage, Michael Ozone and Jennifer Loveless. There'll be food available from a selection of Tasmanian food vendors. Ditto booze from local brewers, served in recyclable cups in order to cut down on waste.
Rose Quartz will be held at the picturesque Lake Pedders, whose crystalline shores were submerged in the 1970s by the damming of the Serpentine and Huon Rivers. 200 festival-goers will be housed at Lake Pedder Wilderness lodge, while the remaining 300 will have to make do with camping. The latter option is currently available at $200 a head. There are limited car spots on site, but the festival will be running a shuttle bus service between Hobart and Lake Pedders.
Rose Quartz Music & Arts Festival runs from April 1-2. For more information and to secure tickets visit www.rosequartzfestival.com.au.
Via AWOL.