SunFest 2011
A  free two day festival full of fun and entertainment for all ages
Third weekend of March each year
 Sunbury Community Festival
Home
Sponsors
About Us
Walk or Run for FUN
Bike for FUN
Events
Entertainment
Stalls
Contact Us
News & Updates
2011 Registration FORMS
14-05-2010 
Over the next few days we will be uploading the new FORMS for all our events.
 
Stall Registration Forms will be online today

SunFest 2011 Bike, Walk or Run for FUN
14-05-2010 
The SunFest 2011 Committee are excited to be running this event for the second time. The 2010 event was a success and we have had a lot of response after the event asking us to run it again.

SunFest is over for another year !!!
03-04-2010 

What a Festival, SunFest 2010 was a huge success. With over 30,000 people attending this years SunFest it was a fun weekend for all.

Archive

Sunbury Pop Festival 1972 to 1975

 

The Sunbury Pop Festival, also known as the Sunbury Rock Festival which ran from 1972 to 1975, is often regarded as a milestone in Australian music for many reasons. It wasn't the first major music festival that Australia saw, but it was the first successful music event.  

The Sunbury Pop Festival was an Australian rock music festival held on a 620-acre (2.5 km2) private farm in Sunbury, Victoria staged annually on the Australia Day long weekend from 1972 to 1975, attracting up to 45,000 patrons each year.

 

Although likened to America' s Woodstock , the Sunbury Music Festival was more of a forerunner to the Big Day Out festivals of today. Held over the Australia Day long weekend in each of the four years it ran, the festival site was located on farmland on the outskirts of Sunbury.

 

Owned by George Duncan, he generously offered the use of his property at no cost to the organisers, even going so far as allowing toilet facilities and rubbish bins to be installed on the property in later years of the festival. Which really makes sense, considering he'd have had as many as 40,000 people in his 'backyard'. You don't have to be a mathematician to know a crowd like that plus three days of food and alcohol equals a mess.

 
With the Duncans' farmland providing a natural amphitheatre, the scene of the Sunbury festivals has since become an isolated area, far from the bustling hub it was during one of music history's most famed events. Residential subdivision in the area has since limited public access to the site and redeveloped the landscape.

 

According to a document on the website of Hume City Council, little remains there now but there are still the remnants of the toilet facilities and bins, along with echoes of the event that linger to this day with 'small artefacts such as items of footwear and drink can pull-rings' scattered over the area.