Big Pineapple Music Festival

Big Pineapple Music Festival
Big Pineapple Music Festival in 2019
Location(s)76 Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast, Queensland 4559
Years active2013-present
FoundersBrad Rankin and Peter Kendall
Previous event22 May 2021
Websitewww.bigpineapplemusicfestival.com

The Big Pineapple Music Festival is held annually at the Big Pineapple Landmark, in Woombye, Queensland, Australia.[1] The festival features a range of artists from a variety of genres and first occurred on 21 April 2013 with over 8,000 tickets purchased.[2] The festival was initially developed by the new Big Pineapple landmark owners, in an attempt to pull the business out of bankruptcy.[1] From 2016-2019, the festival has repeatedly sold out,[3][4] with the 2019 Big Pineapple Music Festival reporting a record attendance of 16,000 people.[5] The Big Pineapple Music Festival has consecutively won the ‘People’s Choice Award Festival of the Year’ for 2018 and 2019 at the Queensland Music Awards.[4]

The Big Pineapple Music Festival showcases emerging and established Australian artists, with the occasional international act. Noteworthy acts that have performed on Big Pineapple Music Festival's stages include Peking Duk, Hayden James, Bliss N Eso, Allday, Vera Blue, Touch Sensitive, PNAU, Hermitude, John Butler Trio, Birds of Tokyo and Grinspoon.[2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Festival organisers had plans to expand the festival to a two-day event in 2020,[4] but the event was cancelled in 2020 due to restrictions imposed when the COVID-19 pandemic occurred.

  1. ^ a b Ludlow, Mark (2 September 2017). "The Big Pineapple finding harmony with rock 'n' roll". The Australian Financial Review.
  2. ^ a b Maastricht, Jasmine (6 April 2013). "Pineapple music festival close to a big sellout". Sunshine Coast Daily.
  3. ^ a b "Hottest ticket in town". Sunshine Coast Daily. 26 May 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "Sweet success for pineapple music festival". Sunshine Coast Daily. 21 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Sweet sounds lure big crowd". Sunshine Coast Daily. 27 May 2019.
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