Wolfmother, Ball Park Music and Yothu Yindi will headline the inaugural Aloha Festival, a new all-ages surf, music and culture event at Dee Why Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The festival takes place on March 6, 2027.
The lineup also includes Dune Rats, The Terrys, The Beautiful Girls, Mid Drift and The Beefs. Organizers, who say the event has capacity for up to 15,000 people, describe it as having the potential to become the largest music festival ever staged on the Northern Beaches. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 26, at 10 a.m. AEDT, following a presale from October 23.
The festival will feature curated surf films screened on the main stage between live sets, including works by John Florence, Jack Johnson and Stacy Peralta, several of them digitally remastered in 4K. Programming includes shark education and ocean safety, First Nations and Hawaiian culture, environmental sustainability and mental wellbeing, including a Bush to Beach program offering First Nations youth their first festival experience. The event will also honor Hawaiian waterman Duke Kahanamoku, who helped introduce surfing to Australia at nearby Freshwater Beach in 1914.
Festival founder Luke Campbell said: “Aloha Festival is a celebration of everything that makes the Northern Beaches, and the Australian coastline, so special.”
The bill spans three generations of Australian rock. Wolfmother, fronted by Andrew Stockdale, released a self-titled debut in 2005 that reached No. 22 on the Billboard 200. Yothu Yindi, inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2012, released “Treaty” in 1991. Ball Park Music, from Brisbane, has scored multiple top-five ARIA albums.
Source: Billboard
