Strawberry Fields, the annual celebration of art, music and the wild outdoors, turns 10 in 2018 and to commemorate this glorious decade, festival organisers are planning a party for the ages.
Located in a lush outdoor setting on the banks of the Murray River, the boutique festival has grown from its humble beginnings of less than 1000 punters in 2009, to an expected 8,000 this year. Strawberry Fields has become a fixture on the Australian summer calendar after pioneering the introduction of more diverse electronic artists to the bush for the first time. Over the last decade Floating Points, Tycho, Moodymann, Booka Shade, Stephan Bodzin, Apparat, Carl Craig, HUNEE, Nightmares on Wax & Mr Scruff and many more have all made their Australian bush debut in the so called “wildlands”.
Following their massive first announcement, Strawberry Fields have lifted the bar yet again with 64 acts added to the line-up.
This year the festival is honoured to welcome dancefloor experimentalist, techno producer Carl Craig as the headline act. This year’s USA contingent will include the dance-floor chaos of Honey Dijon; the deep and emotive stylings of Hollywood’s Hoj; Lonely C of Boston’s DJ and production duo Soul Clap; and the lovely Oona Dahl who is renowned for testing traditional musical limits with extended mixes, isochronic tones and melodies.
This year’s crop of local Australian talent includes:
Andy Garvey
CC:DISCO!
30/70
Wax’o Paradiso
POW! Negro
DJ JNETT
Hiatus Kaiyote
LUNA-EXCHANGE
Jaala
Kaiit
DJ Manchild
Miss Goldie
SIMONA
MXXWLL
Turner Street Sound
Head to the Facebook page here for the full line-up and tickets. With 90 percent of tickets already sold, we recommend acting quickly!
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