Looks Like Australia Is Hosting Two COVID Safe Festivals Next Month

Another COVID safe live music festival is launching in Australia next month.

After news last week that WA-based event Good Day Sunshine would take place in a ground-breaking COVID safe format in late October, Tropical North Queensland’s Savannah Summer Series has announced massive changes to its 2020 event.

Taking place in Cairns and Mareeba from October 1-2 with the likes of Lee Kernaghan, Casey Barnes, The Buckleys, SaltbushSix, The Roadtrippers, The Ayres Rockettes and Camille Trail, Savannah Summer Series will now be, as described by organisers, “the first COVID safe country music festival in the entire world”.

The October 1 event will feature allocated table and chair seating alongside high chair seating and a standing area, while the October 2 event will have its mosh pit replaced with allocated table and chair seating, general admission pod allocation and grandstand reserved seating.

“As gatherings and the regulations around social distancing are relaxed in a measured way it’s important to us and to the economy of the region that we keep the music playing,” Savannah Summer Series promoter James Dein said.

“Savannah In The Round was always conceived as an event to bring the Tropical North Queensland community together, as well as drive interstate tourism and shine a light on the amazing talent this country has to offer. 

“It’s never been a more important time to deliver on that goal, and we couldn’t be happier to be hosting the first COVID safe country music festival in the entire world, right here in Tropical North Queensland this summer.”

Savannah Summer Series was organised following the postponement of Savannah In The Round, which was originally slated for the end of this month with local, national and international country music heavyweights, but will now take place next October.

Savannah Summer Series is “the first taste of what’s to come next year”.

For more details on Savannah Summer Series, click here.

Lee Kernaghan

Casey Barnes

The Buckleys

SaltbushSix

The Roadtrippers

Camille Trail