Meadow: is the hyper-local micro-festival the way forward for Australian music? – The Guardian

As Perth entered its second day of lockdown over the weekend and Victorians kept a nervous eye on the news, about 100km south-west of Melbourne several hundred music fans woke to the mellifluous funk of the band Birdsnake. The punters were drawn slowly from clusters of tents to the small stage situated in the natural amphitheatre of the Bambra Bowl and spacey saxophone soundtracked the slow development of a queue for a van selling the only coffee available for miles. Nearby, a small group of warmly…

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