2023 Nannup Music Festival

Over the recent 2023 Labour Day long weekend, students in the Year 11/12 Combined General Music class took the 3.5-hour journey to the south west of WA to participate in the sold-out renowned Nannup Music Festival.

Students pulled their weight in volunteering in the set up for the festival on Friday providing a great insight into the setting up of a professional music festival, vendors, food trucks and music gear bump in. Students set up chairs in the various performance venues including the Nannup Town Hall.

Students went into the festival to view the Friday evening session, met local and interstate performers and found a nearby piano and entertained the locals on the walk back to the bus with a touch of busking.

Servite College was one of only two high school performers to feature at the festival and to mark the occasion, students were supplied with a local music band bag filled with a Servite Music Camp T-shirt, Nannup Music Festival Poster and a music notepad.

Students performed an energetic and engaging 25-song set on both the Saturday and Sunday to a bustling lunchtime crowd and it was great to see the students step up and make the most of this opportunity. Students performed both cover songs and original material, in both solo, duo and full band contexts.

A notable highlight of the festival for the students was meeting the original ‘Red Wiggle’ Murray Cook, who was headlining the festival with his band Murray Cook and the Soul Movers. He obligingly posed for photos with our students.

I would like to thank the many staff members who contributed in different ways to ensure this experience for the students was as successful and memorable as it was.

Riley Burrows, Music Teacher