Frequently asked questions
The Nanga Music Festival moved to Fairbridge Village in 2025. The festival enjoyed years of generous sponsorship from its previous venue, Nanga Bush Camp – but a change of ownership led to the need for a new home.
From 2025 onward, the whole festival will be contained within Fairbridge Village, and will remain a small, one-stage festival.
Accommodation and concerts will be at Fairbridge Village. We can relax and walk or cycle about the grounds enjoying the historic cottages and an exciting new venue with capacity for us all. Stay in a cottage with friends old and new!
All catered meals will be offered – Friday night dinner, Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Sunday breakfast, lunch and a light dinner. As previously, you need to pre-book a separate ticket for these.
A coffee van will offer hot drinks and treats throughout the weekend.
The festival will retain most of its familiar exciting and awesome performances, including the Listening Gallery (open mic), Blind Date Concert and Saturday singalong. The Youth Scholarship is back so we are looking forward to experiencing stars of the future.
Located 11 km north of Pinjarra on the South-West Highway, just over an hour from Perth or Fremantle, Fairbridge Village is a heritage-listed property still in use by families and groups. The venue has a lot of history – established as a farm school, it now hosts programs supporting young people, including a special needs school. The cottages are renovated to a high standard and yet retain the history.
The historic buildings are well equipped for comfortable sleeping and self-catering. Many of the rooms have several beds and some bunks. Seasoned Nanga festival goers will find it less intimate than the bunk room arrangements you’ve been used to.
If you are unable to get accommodation at Fairbridge Village or would prefer to make your own arrangements you can book a festival ticket without accommodation and book direct with private providers in the Pinjarra area.
This year we are permitted to have a limited number of camping sites on the oval with access to an ablution block. There is no access to power. These sites can cater for tents, campervans, and camper trailers. This year, a separate area on the oval will be designated for motorhomes/RVs
A few campervans can attach to the cottages but that would necessitate paying for a top bunk per person in exchange for the use of the cottage facilities. However, these campervans will have to be self-sufficient with power.
Tickets are available but do sell out so arrange purchase asap More information
Festival accommodation is communal-style in cottages. By communal, we mean the bedroom doors don’t lock; it isn’t practical to lock the cottages; bathrooms and kitchens are shared. Each cottage has a kitchen equipped with all the basic equipment.
Each cottage is unique. The cottages have been renovated to varying standards; some come with linen supplied and some do not; and the numbers of beds (including bunks) varies from room to room. Thus the cost per bed starts at $99 for 3 nights.
Floor plans for cottages are available from the Fairbridge Village website.
Because the festival has to buy whole cottages rather than per bed, we need to fill whole cottages and will open them a few at a time. Please take the time to look at cottage floor plans before booking your accommodation and ticket. A few special points to note:
- There are a few rooms for two with double or queen beds. These will go very fast. If you choose one of these you must book two tickets. If you don’t, we will move you.
- We will designate some rooms as male-only and female-only.
- If you book as a small group of 3 to 5, you may be able to book a whole room. If you have a group of 3 to 5 and can’t get a room for that number, contact the amazing Bev on bookings@nangamusic.org.au who will do her best to accommodate you.
- We may need to contact you after you make your booking to rearrange beds and ensure rooms are filled, so make sure your contact details are correct and please respond promptly.
- Any other special needs? Email bookings@nangamusic.org.au We will do our best to help.
- Arrival at the village any time after 2pm. Check-in time is 2.30pm
- Check-out is at 10am
Great! Please email bookings@nangamusicfestival.com as soon as possible.
Meal bookings are open! This year our menu is catered by the wonderful team at Fairbridge Catering. The food selections are of the highest quality, buffet style and you will not be left hungry! If last year is anything to go by, it will all be delicious.
There is a menu already available if you follow the meals tab.
There will be meal times as listed on the program at the Historic Dining Hall alfresco area where you will enjoy the bustle. Sunday night will be a cheap, simpler one-pot affair served at the Gym undercroft at the concert venue.
Alcohol will be BYO at the Fairbridge Village. Glasses are not permitted in the music venue, so please bring your personal non-glass drinking receptacle or pick up a souvenir insulated mug.
Of course! These are informal join-in sessions for you to be among the artists and Nanga festival organisers to sing along with old favourites, jam with your own instrument, dance about or just sit and enjoy the atmosphere. Sessions will happen in some of the Fairbridge cottages Friday and Saturday evenings.
The festival is volunteer-run and has a no refunds policy.
If you need to on-sell your tickets, then we recommend Tixel. It will be your responsibility to ensure that changed ownership details are given to us by contacting bookings@nangamusic.org.au. If we don’t have the correct details, we cannot allow entry.