Drop Festival 2020: Award wining line up headed to the Gold Coast for annual surfing music festival

SOME of Australia’s most loved and award-winning acts are headed to the Gold Coast for the 2020 Drop Festival.

SOME of Australia’s most loved and award-winning acts are headed to the Gold Coast for The Drop Festival 2020.

Coolangatta’s Queen Elizabeth Park will be coming alive for the third year with acts Boy & Bear, Ball Park Music, Allday, DZ Death Rays, Kita Alexander and Graace performing on at the festival.

Famed electronic duo and five times ARIA award-winning The Presets will be headlining the show.

The Presets. Picture's Darren Leigh Roberts

The event was founded in 2018 by surf star Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew and has grown from three events in 2018, five in 2019 with it expanding to six locations next year.

“We’re thrilled to announce the tremendous growth of The Drop Festival 2020.”

“We’re also very proud to announce that in 2020 The Drop Festival will follow the WSL to a variety of international locations to showcase the rest of the world how we Australians party down under – with The Drop Festivals scheduled to take place at sensational locations in New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, Portugal, France and Brazil with more to be announced.

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Boy and Bear. Picture: Toby Zerna

“The Drop Festival will now live under the parent brand The Drop Live, and with a complete rebrand we are preparing to launch our global website and app early in 2020.”

Since the festival debuted in 2018, it has bought some of the biggest acts to the Gold Coast from Angus and Julia Stone, Client Liaison, Hockey Dad, SAFIA, Dune Rats, San Cisco and more.

The acts will also be touring at other The Drop Festival locations at Noosa, Newcastle, Manly, Torquay and Busselton.

The Drop Festival is held at Coolangatta on Sunday March 28.

Tickets are on sale on Wednesday December 4.