Marrickville Music Festival Transforms Streets To Stages This Weekend
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The much-loved Marrickville Music Festival is making its annual return to the Inner West this weekend, transforming its streets into a buzzing cultural hub.
The free event is suitable for the whole family, and will see Marrickville’s streets, parks and venues showcase local creatives across live performance, food, markets and art.
This year’s festival will take place over seven stages across Marrickville, hosting an exciting mix of international headliners and homegrown talent, including the ARIA-nominated pop-punk Inner Westies Yours Truly, Sydney-based sisters No Frills Twins, and four-person indie rock band The Colliflowers.
There’ll also be special performances from the students of Marrickville Public and High Schools, alongside the Marrickville Glee Club and the iconic Voices From The Vacant Lot.
Running since 2003, the event has grown into one of Sydney’s most anticipated community attractions, drawing thousands of people to the area each year, and is expected to draw record crowds on Sunday.
Inner West a “renaissance of Sydney’s nightlife”, says Mayor
Mayor Darcy Byrne said the festival reflects the Inner West’s identity as the cultural and nightlife capital of Sydney.
“Marrickville Music Festival is a celebration of everything that makes our community unique — diversity, creativity and a love of live music,” he said. “With seven stages and one of our strongest line-ups yet, this year will be our biggest festival to date.
The festival comes as the Inner West Council has been making a concentrated effort to bring arts and culture into the community, with Byrne saying he wants a “genuine renaissance of Sydney’s nightlife based here in the People’s Republic of the Inner West.”
In July, the council introduced a number of special entertainment precincts across Marrickville, allowing bars, clubs, and restaurants to trade until 2:00am on Fridays, Saturdays, and before public holidays, along with outdoor dining permitted to stay open until 11pm.
“While other Councils are shutting down entertainment, we are doing the opposite and want to attract more venues and performers to our main streets,” he said.
