Courtney Barnett Added to Echo Festival Bill

Award-winning Australian Singer-Songwriter Courtney Barnett Added to Echo Festival Bill

Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett has been added to the line-up for the new Echo Festival being held in Auckland in January.

In the past year Courtney Barnett has emerged worldwide as an outstanding breakout artist and recently scooped three major gongs at the Australian Independent Record labels Association (AIR) Awards including Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Album, and last month opened for Blur on their US tour.

Courtney joins headliners Disclosure, The Flaming Lips and other internationals such as Jamie xx, Mac De Marco and Elliphant for the two-day festival held at Vector Arena on January 11 and 12.

In announcing Courtney Barnett today, festival director Paxton Talbot also revealed more details for Echo, a family-friendly festival with three stages.

The festival will open out from the Vector Arena into the adjacent open-air surrounds, streets and park to provide a street party atmosphere to accompany the indoor arena performances. Outdoors will include a major outdoor stage, art installations, street theatre, dance, markets, sumptuous food stalls and chill-out zones.

“It will be a real carnival outside with lots of hustle and bustle. There'll be plenty of colour with installations, live art including painting and graffiti, body and face painting, and some magical experiences during the night.

"We’re creating something very special at Vector Arena. It will be like nothing that’s been seen at this venue before. Echo will be a musical and cultural exploration with a line-up curated from the reaches of pop, rock, folk, electronica, psychedelia, blues, hip-hop, Americana, alternative and beyond.”

Also featuring on the music line-up for Echo Festival is Sydney’s hottest EDM DJ Alison Wonderland, Philadelphia’s rock troubadour Kurt Vile & The Violators, Scottish psychedelic hip-hop electro boy band Young Fathers, and Australian artists C.W. Stoneking, The Preatures, Jordan Léser, Kirin J. Callinan, Borneo, and pianistNeddwellyn Jones.

The New Zealand line-up for the festival features and iconic Dunedin pop band TheChills, The Datsuns, David Dallas & the Daylight Robbery, Avalanche City, Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders, Tiny Ruins, Racing, The Eastern, Fazerdaze, ArthurAhbez, Beastwars, Die! Die! Die!, Aldous Harding, Dictaphone Blues, Mel Parsons,Maala, Anthonie Tonnon, Tom Lark, New Gum Sarn, Voom, The Libres, Margaret, and Race Banyon.

Echo Festival takes place on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 January from midday to late at Vector Arena and surrounds.

Two day tickets are priced from $199* with single day tickets available from $119* per day. Children aged 12 years and under are free and youth tickets are available for those aged 13-16 years (14 years and under must be accompanied by an adult). Tickets are on sale from Friday 6 November through Ticketmaster and full details are available atwww.echofestival.co.nz. *Service fees apply

McLaren Valley Music and Arts Festival tickets can be exchanged for Echo Festival tickets with a refund for the cost difference. Full refunds on festival and camping tickets are available from point of purchase. All refunds must be processed by Wednesday 18 November. For more information visit www.echofestival.co.nz

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