Marchfest 2012

Set in the beautiful, traffic-free environment of Founders Heritage Park.

Festival facilities and marketing efforts are geared to an expected attendance of at least 2,500 festival goers.
MarchFest is completely weatherproof – all activity areas have the potential to be sheltered from sun, wind or rain.
Craft Beers - Nelson has more craft breweries per head of the population than anywhere else in the country. Each year Marchfest invites all the dozen or so local craft breweries to create a brand new beer for the event.
While MarchFest celebrates Nelson’s unique position as New Zealand’s craft brewing centre of excellence and only hop growing region, it is not just about beer:

• Eclectic music - MarchFest is booking quality local, national and international acts – no bland and lifeless covers bands for this event.
• Regional cuisine - MarchFest is an event for people who value savouring rather than consuming. Expect to see stalls selling anything from freshly caught scallops to locally reared venison, berry-based juices to real fruit ice cream, not to mention great coffee - Nelson is NZ Espresso Central.
• Kids and family activities - MarchFest is also about creating an event where responsible drinking and good parenting go hand-in-hand. There will be cool stuff for kids to do – organised and managed by an experienced youth activities specialist in conjunction with the Curator of Founders Park.
• Sustainability - Of course, we want people to drink locally produced beers, wines and food but we also encourage stallholders to provide recycled or recyclable materials and festivalgoers to arrive and depart by public transport.
• MarchFest is geared towards people of discerning taste – people who make informed choices about their food, drink, musical taste and want to attend a family-friendly event, which is safe, fun and a bit different to the run-of-the-mill festival.