Festival of the Sun

Festival of the Sun (FOTSUN) is an annual outdoor music festival held in December at the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.

A celebration of the east coast summer culture and Australian Music, the festival makes full use of the unique location - right on Town Beach, the existing facilities of the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Parkcite web |author=sundownerholidays.com |publisher=sundownerholidays.com |date=undated |url=http://www.sundownerholidays.com |title=Sundowner Breakwall & Tiona Tourist Parks - Sundowner Breakwall & Tiona Tourist Parks |accessdate=2008-01-13 |format=html, Javascript ] , and the central location next to the CBD. The festival completed its second year in 2007 to a sell out crowd. The Festival of the Sun websitecite web |author=Festival of the Sun 2007 |publisher=Festival of the Sun 2007 |date=undated |url=http://www.fotsun.com |title=Festival of the Sun 2007 |accessdate=2008-01-13 |format=html, Richmedia ] has a "Backstage Area" (Developed by Usync) where fans of the festival have access to exclusive content. In 2007 the content included free tracks from artists that played the festival and one lucky Backstage Member took away a one off Surfboard which all the artists signed.

The festival also includes a film clip festival called Sunscreencite web |author=sunscreen.net |publisher=sunscreen.net |date=undated |url=http://www.sunscreen.net |title=sunscreen.net |accessdate=2008-01-13 |format=html, Javascript ] .

FOTSUN Past Artists

* 2005 Line UpFact|date=January 2008: included Sarah Blasko, The Herd, The Mess Hall

* 2006 Line UpFact|date=January 2008: included Augie March, The Beautiful Girls, Mia Dyson, Blue King Brown and The Black Market Rhythm Co.

* 2007 Line UpFact|date=January 2008: included Gotye, Cog, Butterfingers, Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set, Ash Grunwald, The Fumes, Kid Confucius, Subaudible Hum, The Boat People, Aurora Jane & Massive Change, The Sins, Tjupurru, Mr Percival and George Byrne

Projected Artists 2008

* No information as at 2008-01-13.

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