Easterfest Competitors

The Glastonbury Festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz, folk music, fringe theatre, drama, mime, circus, cinema, poetry and all the creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile art. A large area of the Festival (the “green” area) is set aside for complementary and alternative medicine, demonstrations and displays of environmentally-friendly technologies and techniques, various forms of religious expression, and a forum for debating environmental, social and moral issues. The Festival organises market places, selling an enormous range of wares, and which place particular emphasis on offering high quality prepared food and hand-made goods, including clothes and jewellery. The company makes films and recordings of the event, which are sold all over the world. In addition to all of this, the company actively pursues the objective of making a profit. And in so doing is able not only to make improvements to the site, but also to distribute large amounts of money to Greenpeace, Oxfam, Water Aid and other humanitarian causes which enhance the fabric of our society. In the running of the event the Festival deliberately employs the services of these organisations, increasing the amounts they can raise towards their objectives.

Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world and Australia’s largest ticketed cultural event. The Festival sells in excess of 600,000 tickets annually, with an aggregate annual attendance including free performance of more than 770,000 people, boosted by millions more for nationally broadcast Festival programming on TV, radio and digital channels. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival brand is recognised nationally as Australia’s leading comedy organisation and stands proudly as one of Victoria’s big four events alongside the Australian Open, Spring Racing Carnival and the AFL Grand Final Series. Conceived to promote the comedic arts in Australia, Melbourne International Comedy Festival has earned its global reputation through creative, eclectic programming. The organisation is active year-round with national touring, educational and artistic development programs complementing the presentation of the annual four-week festival. The 2024 Festival will take place from 27 March to 21 April.

The Byron Bay Bluesfest is an annual music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay area in Australia since 1990. It features a large selection of blues and roots performers, from Australia and around the world, and is one of the world's leading contemporary music festivals.