Meadow: is the hyper-local micro-festival the way forward for Australian music?

This was day two of Meadow, a music festival that feels very much like the opposite of lockdown. It’s one of the few music festivals to have taken place in Australia over the past 12 months. While the planned dates for industry titan Bluesfest coincided with a local Covid-19 case, leading to a last-minute cancellation, and Falls, Meredith and Golden Plains wait for kinder times, smaller festivals such as Yours and Owls, Boogie and Meadow have pulled off what seems like a series of minor miracles.
Signs at Meadow instructed: “No moshing. No crowd surfing. No stage diving. Yes dancing.” Between sets, messages flashed over the stage asking people to be mindful of social distancing, to carry masks at all times and to use them if distancing wasn’t possible.

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