Call for Musicians for the Lucky Fish Music Festival
Musicians and bands looking for a fresh platform to air your wares, make sure to stand up and be counted by submitting your profile to the newest addition to the SA Music festival scene, Lucky Fish, taking place the weekend of the 2/3/4/5 October at Route 28 Westonaria – just up the road from Jozi. Let’s hope the organisers create an edgy, offbeat contemporary festival that is truly reflective of the broad musical genres our vibrant and brand-savvy youth are into, attracting a wild and diverse crowd… So often festivals repeat the pigeon-holing that’s oh so 80’s (an exception here is Flux which we’re sad no longer happens)… Here’s hoping Lucky Fish doesn’t! Time will tell. The Lucky Fish Music Festival is a brand new music and lifestyle festival that has been specially designed to provide the most possible fun in four short days. It will feature great live bands on multiple stages with multiple music genres. It will also feature specially designed chill zones with top local deejays, flea-markets and arts and crafts, lots of extreme sports with games and competitions, beautiful camping, and the sexiest people in South Africa! Lucky Fish is fresh, it’s exciting, and it’s packed from start to finish with madness and fun. It’s the hottest new date on the calendar! You know that you want to be there at the birth of SA music history! After nine years as the Woodstock creative and production team, Authentic Ideas has finally launched its very own music and lifestyle festival. Festival director, Clint McKeon says, “The Lucky Fish Festival was conceptualized 3 years ago, but we chose not to go ahead with the project whilst we were still commissioned by Woodstock as their creative team, as we didn’t want to create any conflict. When we resigned at the end of last year (from Woodstock), and when we realized that Woodstock was to be held at the end of November eight weeks after our event; we then realized that we had the opportunity to launch Lucky Fish, it was just a matter of finding the right venue. Then the Route 28 Resort fell into our laps and we took it as a sign that the time was right.” Says director Nancy Hillary, “We feel that we are in a unique position after 15 years of working in the South African Live Music Industry, to be able to provide the right mix entertainment and to create a festival that’s exciting, clean, secure and unlike any other in the country. There are so many things we have wanted to do in the past but have never had the opportunity....