After 18,000 people showed for triple j's One Night Stand concert in Dubbo this April, the town's mayor has expressed an active interest in attracting regional touring festival Groovin The Moo to his town
Matthew Dickerson spoke to ABC Western Plains earlier this week, indicating that the One Night Stand event was a huge boost for Dubbo with an estimated 14,000 tourists infiltrating the town over the weekend.
“The people that were in Dubbo over that weekend were from literally across Australia," he said. "The 18,000 that attended the concert, some of those were from Dubbo, so we estimate that probably 14,000 came into Dubbo from surrounding areas.”
Dickerson said the standalone event ought to have given festival promoters confidence that the town would be able to handle large-scale events.
"We're trying to secure Groovin The Moo for next year," he revealed. “What [One Night Stand] proved to organisers was that Dubbo can accommodate these groups of people and those numbers."
Groovin The Moo currently stops in Townsville, Canberra, Maitland, Bendigo and Bunbury and usually heads around the nation around April and May.
