About Us

Sunbury is famous for Festivals.   From 1972 to 1974 Sunbury was host to Australia 's most successful Pop / Rock Festival ever. 

2010 will be the Sunbury Community Festival's 34th year in serving the Community by providing a free two day festival full of fun and entertainment for all ages. The Sunbury Community Festival is well supported by local traders, businesses and the community.

The Sunbury Community Festival ' SunFest' (originally the Sunbury Fair) first started in 1977 by a group of Sunbury volunteers. After the Sunbury Pop / Rock Festival finished in 1975, Sunbury was left with a void and after one year had lapsed with no festivals the Sunbury Fair began.

This group of volunteers wanted to bring to Sunbury an old fashion community fair free of charge to the people of Sunbury and its surrounds. Since this first event this festival has grown to be Sunbury's largest event.

With approximately 30,000 people having attended our last Festival, we will again offer great attractions that no other festival or show can offer in the Sunbury Region.

Attractions include amusement rides and carnival games, the Grand Street Parade (on Saturday), CFA Torchlight Parade (Saturday evening), FIREWORKS, live local bands, roving entertainers, kid's entertainment, Sunbury Idol and Sunbury Has Talent and a lot more.

This event:

• Has free entry to the whole community and to people of all ages.
• Has free entertainment and fun for children all day.
• Has free entertainment for adults all day.
• Provides opportunity for children to win free rides and other prizes like mountain bikes.
• Provides opportunity for adults and families to win free prizes from sponsor's stalls throughout the event.
• Attracts up to 30,000 people each year.
• Provides a dance floor for people of all ages to join in on the entertainment.
• Is community minded and encourages all community organisations to be involved.
• Is run solely by volunteers.
• Has a large food court with a variety of food where parents can sit and are able to watch their children on stage or on the carnival rides.
• Supports a number of charities with monies raised through events ran such as the Cancer Council, Leukemia Foundation, MS Society and more.

This community festival is a special event that means a lot to the community.   We now have hundreds of parents who were once children them selves who had come to the Festival with their parents and are now bringing their own children along to enjoy the festivities.

The Festival is now a Sunbury Tradition with events such as the Grand Street Parade on the Saturday also running in it's 34th year. Hundreds of families line the streets to watch this Grand Street Parade with its colourful floats, street walkers, clowns and attractions.  

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There is a lot more we can say about this festival however to make it a success we need to rely on the generosity of all the volunteers and Sponsors .