Sons Of Zion at the Natural NZ Music Festival. Photo: Unknown
The Natural Music Festival declares itself as the only 100 per cent New Zealand music festival in Australia.
Instigated in Perth four years ago by Australia-based Kiwi Brian Terry, at the end of last month the festival made its debut on the east coast of Australia, in the Queensland capital of Brisbane.
Terry says the idea for the festival came to him “like a light bulb” when he was at a Shihad gig on the Gold Coast having a Sunday session with a few mates, talking about what festivals they’d go to that summer.
“I was actually with a mate at the time and I turned to him: ‘Bro, you know what would be a good idea? A New Zealand music festival in Australia’. And he turned to me and said ‘Nah bro, that's a shit idea’. But I didn't let that stop me."
Katchafire, friends of his from back home in the Waikato, headlined the first festival and it's grown from there.
On the bill this year were Anika Moa, Sons of Zion, P-Money, Scribe, House of Shem, Dave Dobbyn, The Black Seeds and Shapeshifter.
LISTEN as Radio New Zealand's Robyn Walker crosses the Tasman to find out more:
Cover image: Natural NZ Music Festival Perth/ Facebook.
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