Lighthouse Country Festival was a huge hit with more than 9000 people who attended the Burnett Heads Lighthouse field on 29 and 30 April.
The spectacular weekend saw multi-award-winning country artists take to the stage followed by rodeos, food stalls, an operational bar and helicopter joy flights.
The festival featured a series of artists including Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Travis Collins, Casey Barnes, Jayne Denham, McAlister Kemp, Duncan Toombs and many more.
Festival director and promoter, Gavin Hales said how spectacular this event was to hold and to organise this event.
“Means the world to me that have the opportunity to showcase these great events,” he said.
“We have the confidence to do it all again thanks to all of the support we have gotten.
“Festivals like these bring such joy to people and to have so many people visit our wonderful town is awesome and this is our opportunity to showcase this to the world.”
Gavin describes the atmosphere of the festival and thanks everyone for their support.
“The atmosphere was electric and such a pleasure to be a part of, you will have to come to the next one to experience it yourself, words can only express so much,” he said.
“Thank you to all the crowd that attended, sponsors, management and staff, volunteers, security, vendors, contractors, artist and production and anyone else that I haven’t mentioned that made all this possible.”
Most of the visitors came from all over Australia including Queensland, Perth and Tasmania.
After finishing the concert at 10pm on both nights the crowd finished off their music festivities at the after-party at the Lighthouse Hotel featuring Mark Lavender.
Gavin also believes this will be an annual event and plans are already underway for next 2024’s festival.
Adam Brand is the most commercially popular and successful recording artist in Australia and has won 12 Golden Guitars, achieved eighth place in ARIA albums, and sold more than 600,000 albums in two decades.
“Some huge names, heaps of incredible country music… it doesn’t get any better,” Adam said.
“The feeling on stage here was like the festival had been going for 10 years: it had that really solid, strong, well-organised feel, and the crowd was so pumped from the first act, right through to the end.
“I believe that Lighthouse has made a statement here.”
After the hit of their first festival for 2023, another has emerged to the surface, Lighthouse Rock.
With a lineup of numerous artists to take the stage on 14 October, at Burnett Heads.
Icehouse, the Living End, Baby Animals, The Screaming Jets, Mason Rack Band, Abby Skye and hard rock artist Evergreen Aus, will take to the stage, competing in the Battle of the Bands competition, made by Triple M Bundy and the Lighthouse.
Tickets are available now on the Lighthouse website.
