“It’s exciting to announce that we’re at capacity – with nearly 15,000 people set to rock the Outback this month. Thousands of these travellers are already hitting the road and going to join us for our new Lightfest event that will be staged on the streets of Broken Hill in the week leading into the Mundi Mundi Bash,” said Festival founder and Managing Director of the Outback Music Festival Group Greg Donovan.
Against a red earth backdrop, festivalgoers will come together for a line-up that includes The Teskey Brothers, Jon Stevens, John Butler, Boy & Bear, Baby Animals, Jessica Mauboy, The Whitlams, Leo Sayer, Tim Finn, Troy Cassar-Daley, Chocolate Starfish, Mi-Sex, Furnace and the Fundamentals, Wendy Matthews, The Radiators, Shane Howard, Fanny Lumsden, ‘50 Years of Fleetwood Mac’, Hot Potato Band, Tom Busby and Wes Carr – a bill that spans generations.
The 2026 iteration of the Mundi Mundi Bash will feature a new prelude event with Lightfest set to be staged on the streets of Broken Hill, for both locals and Mundi Mundi Bashers alike, in the week before the Bash.
The free Lightfest event will run over three consecutive nights featuring a large-scale drone light show and street activations.
A new Bash Choir – a new feel-good replacement for the Nutbush world-record attempt – will also be staged for the first time this year at the Mundi Mundi Bash event.
Taking place on Friday August 21, Bash Choir will see thousands of Bash-goers gather in the main concert area to learn the iconic “Simply The Best” – in a nod to the Nutbush/Tina Turner connections of previous years. The hit song will be performed in a powerful shared moment that will be the world’s biggest outback choir, raising funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
The sold-out festival will be held later this month, August 20 to 22.
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