Tanglewood Festival

25/07/2026

This is what playing Tanglewood looks like: a dancefloor that actually listens, kids on shoulders, someone's mum absolutely sending it down the front ✨

Every year the program mixes acts we've loved for a decade with sounds we'd never heard until an application landed.

Musicians, producers, DJs: if you want this view from the stage, applications are open now 👀🎶
Link in bio.

📸 Benjamin Cross Photography
🎼 Dërty Bërd

24/07/2026

Last month, a few of us headed out to site to celebrate our beautiful Steph. 💚

Together, we spent the day caring for a place she loved, planting over 1,000 trees—each one a small reminder of the kindness, warmth and love she shared so effortlessly.

It was a day filled with laughter, fresh air, muddy boots and moments we’ll hold close. We couldn’t think of a more fitting way to honour such a special soul.

Happy Birthday, Steph. Your love continues to grow in the most beautiful ways. 🌿🤍

22/07/2026

Everyone talks about the nights. Fair enough, the nights are good. But the daytime is the secret...🌿✨

Lazy hangs under the gumtrees, workshops, market wanders, shared breakfasts, tiny Tanglers with painted faces running the place 🧚🏽
All ages sharing one site, from first-festival kids to people who've been coming since the island.

That's the whole idea.
If you come to Tanglewood, you're part of the family.

What's your favourite family story from Tangled? 🎶

Tickets in the bio, kids under 14 welcome with a parent or guardian, all the family info is on the website.
See you their fam! 💚

17/07/2026

🌿 CREATIVE APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🌿

Tanglewood has always been so much more than a lineup. It's the art tucked into the trees, the workshop that quietly changed your whole year, the LED spinning long after midnight, the healing space you didn't know you needed, the theme camp that became your second home.

All of it starts with people like you putting your hand up.

We're now calling for:

🎭 Performance Art
🎨 Visual Art & Installations
🌱 Workshops & Healing
🎛 VJ & Multimedia
🏰 Spaces & Theme Campes

Whether you've been part of the family since the ferry days or you're dreaming up your very first contribution, we want to see what you make. New faces and familiar ones, side by side, are exactly how this thing has always worked.

📝 Apply via the link below
📅 30 December 2026 to 2 January 2027
📍 Thornton, Victoria

Tag someone who should bring their magic this summer.

👉 https://www.tanglewoodfestival.com.au/applications

15/07/2026

Creative applications open soon!
The music applications are humming along nicely. But Tanglewood was never just the music 🌿

Every glowing corner, every workshop that changed your year, every strange and beautiful thing you stumble into out there: someone put their hand up to make it happen.

Performers. Visual art and installations. Workshops and healing. Media. VJs and multimedia. Theme camps.
If you make something, this is your sign ✨

What glorious talent and wild wonders will you be showing us this year 👀

11/07/2026

Somewhere out there it's a cold Saturday in July... Somewhere else, it's permanently this ✨

Six months since we packed down, five months till we do it all again.
Same site, same faces, some brand new ones we haven't met yet 🌿

Tickets are on sale now, link in bio, but honestly, today, this post is just here to warm you up a bit 🔥

24/06/2026

🎶 MUSIC APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🎶
It’s time to make some noise!

We’re calling for bands, solo artists, live acts, producers and DJs of all strange and beautiful varieties to help soundtrack Tanglewood 26/27.

From sun-warmed afternoon grooves to late night stomps, acoustic storytelling, live-band chaos and sounds we haven’t found words for yet, we want to hear what you’ve been making.

Tanglewood has always been shaped by the musicians found in our own backyards: emerging artists, established legends and the wonderful weirdos creating something entirely their own.

Ready to bring your sound to the village?

🌿 Applications open for 8 weeks
📅 30 December 2026 to 2 January 2027
🏕️ Thornton, Victoria

Tag an artist who belongs among the trees 🎼
🔗 https://www.tanglewoodfestival.com.au/musicians

18/06/2026

We are starting to dream up the soundtrack for Tanglewood 26/27, and we want to hear who you’re loving 🎶

Local bands, backyard legends, beautiful weirdos, dancefloor conjurers, acoustic heartbreakers, bass gremlins, folk goblins, brass chaos, psychedelic noodlers, late-night stomp makers.

Who should be on our radar?

Tag your favourite Australian bands, producers, DJs and live acts below!

Music applications opening soon 🌿✨

03/06/2026