Australian Gospel Music Festival
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Easterfest is the largest festival in Toowoomba and claimed to be the largest drug and alcohol free festival in Australia.
The first festival was held in 1999, with a mixture of successful and unsuccessful events. In 2001, the festival re-focused by holding most events in Queen’s Park (previously, events were held in multiple venues throughout the city). Since the initial move to Queen’s Park, the festival has grown and moved back to multiple venues, including the streets.
During the Easter weekend, most of Queen’s Park and some of Toowoomba's CBD is converted into an event precinct, with venue and residential tents, stages and other attractions. During the event setup and packdown parts of Queen's Park are inaccessible to the general public.
Festival History
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In 2004, Guy Sebastian
Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
was a headline act at Easterfest (formerly known as the Australian Gospel Music Festival or AGMF 2004.)
Over 40,000 people attended the ticketed and free events during three-day festival in 2005, and over 20,000 tickets were sold in 2006. The 2011 tally has been confirmed about 40,000 people attended. .
the confirmed artists for 2012.
Hawk Nelson,
P.O.D.,
MercyMe,
Rapture Ruckus,
and
Darlene Zschech