Thursday, 22 January 2009

Wikipedia Article of the Day: Parachute Music Festival

The Parachute Music Festival is a Christian music festival held annually at Mystery Creek, Hamilton, New Zealand. It lasts for three nights and four days, featuring both music and a wide variety of other entertainment.

It is usually held in the last or second to last week in January being summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The festival is run by Parachute Music, a Christian company that has several divisions, including a record label (and publisher) as well as organising the Parachute Festival. Parachute Music also organise a conference known as noise aimed at musicians, songwriters and technical people. The next noise Conference is to be held in June 2008.

The Festival hopes to attract up to 30,000 visitors, who mostly stay on-site in tents, each year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Music_Festival

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