PLAYGROUND WEEKENDER

Some say this is the best festival in Australia. The biggest fancy dress costume party, gorgeous views of the Hawkesbury River, superb music all with the gathering of people who love to have fun and care about the environment. Those some people may just be right. This year, the festival organisers are adding shower stalls (“please use vegetable base soaps” says the website) to the other usual facilities like free water, pass outs throughout the festival and an international food spread like no other. 2011’s artist line-up goes a little something like this: Lamb, Tricky, Cut Copy, Kool & the Gang, De La Soul, Kate Nash, The Beautiful Girls, Roy Ayers, Architecture in Helsinski, Midnight Juggernauts and Norman Jay MBE amongst many others. Come out come out wherever you are. It is time to play this weekend away.

Feb 17-20, Del Rio Riverside Resort, Wisemans Ferry, playgroundweekender.com.au