Mildura Music Under The Stars

If you are into travelling around Australia with Campervan Hire Melbourne and love going to music holidays, you may want to check out Music Under The Stars at the Perry Sandhills. You'll find Perry Hills approximately 40 minutes drive away from Mildura, near Wentworth in New South Wales. This festival is booked for March 10th, 2012 this year, but is held yearly around this time.

It is a actually preferred night of music and is literally ‘under the stars ‘ and with the extreme weather events in Australia during 2011, the locale was flooded and didn't dry out in time for the 2011 Music Under the Stars “leading to it can't be avoided cancellation. So 2012 is fixing up to make up for it as a part of the annual Mildura Arts Festival.

Music Under The Stars started out many years ago with a humble choir performing on the back of a truck and boasted around 100 faithful attendees who happily headed into the hills for the unique entertainment. Over time though, it has developed into a major music event due to it’s unique out of doors setting as well as featuring Australian music legends like Archie Roach, Paul Kelly and Ben Lee.

Nowadays, the dependable followers have grown to four thousand and it is a massive music event. Last year, the featured artist was Marcia Hines and there were lots of disappointed folks when huge rains caused the event to be canned. This year, Mark Seymour who was in the Australian band Hunters and Collectors for eighteen years, and who's now touring and recording with his band The Undercurrent, is the featured music artist.

Marks nieces, Madeleine and Clare Thiele (from Mildura) will be the support artists for the event. So the concept is to bring a picnic and a chair, relax and kick back in the sand dunes and enjoy some wonderful music in a completely unique location. After the big wet of last year, the crowds will be returning in droves so it's time to begin to plan your holiday to incorporate Music Under The Stars.

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