Dan Sultan and Briggs lead lineup for Bendigo music festival Treaty Day Out
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11.08.2022

Dan Sultan and Briggs lead lineup for Bendigo music festival Treaty Day Out

It's described as the biggest, Blakest day out on the Victorian music calendar: Treaty Day Out is coming to the Bendigo Showgrounds on October 1 2022.

Treaty Day Out rocked Shepparton back in February with a stellar First Nations lineup including Yothu Yindi and Archie Roach, and now the huge event from the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria is coming to Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Bendigo.

A first-class, all-First Nations line-up is set to light up Dja Dja Wurrung Country in October, taking to the stage for a celebration of Victoria’s Treaty journey and the oldest surviving culture in the world.

The key takeaways

  • First Nations music festival Treaty Day Out is coming to Bendigo
  • It’s happening at the Bendigo Showgrounds on October 1. You can buy tickets here.
  • It’s held by the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and is free for First Nations people enrolled with the Assembly

Stay up to date with all the epic events happening in and around the region here.

Treaty Day Out Bendigo lineup

Briggs, Dan Sultan, No Fixed Address, Marlon x Rulla, Kee’ahn, Scott Darlow, Nooky, Madi Colville-Walker, Bumpy and MC Kevin Kropinyeri.

The festival will play host to food trucks, First Nations market stalls, a smoking ceremony and traditional and cultural activities for the whole family. Treaty Day Out’s hosts, the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria (the Assembly), is the elected voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Victorian Treaty process.

Tickets to the festival are free for First Nations people who are enrolled with the Assembly, and are available to purchase for friends and allies. Any Traditional Owner of Country in Victoria, who is 16 years and older is eligible to enrol, along with any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person from interstate, as long as they have lived in Victoria for at least three of the past five years.

If you’re First Nations and would like to enrol, you can do so here. Everyone is encouraged to become part of the Team Treaty here.

Enrollees can vote in Assembly elections, to pick the members who will represent their interests on the journey to Treaty. Amy Rust, proud Kokatha woman and Head of Engagement and Communications at the Assembly said she wants Victorians to share in First Nations culture.

“Treaty Day Out is a way for us to share our culture and to invite all Victorians on the Treaty journey with us,” she said. “The work we’re doing is monumental, but this is an opportunity to come together, reflect on how far we’ve come and to have fun with mob. Our culture, our music, is deadly and we want to share that and to celebrate it all.”

While tickets are free for Assembly members, tickets to Treaty Day Out are on sale tomorrow for the general public: Friday 12 August 10am at treatydayout.com