Greening Music
Rocking The Daisies is South Africa´s fastest growing eco-friendly music and lifestyle festival and is taking place this year from the 9-11 October on Cloof Wine Estate in Darling, in the Western Cape. The festival is now in its fourth year and has grown from
1 500 to 10 300 attendees and is set to expect 12 000 revellers this year.
Rocking The Daisies 2009 will feature an impressive line up including headline acts Just Jinjer, Prime Circle, Goldfish, Freshlyground, aKING and the Black Hotels.
Play hard, tread lightly
As South Africa’s premier eco-friendly music and lifestyle festival, Rocking the Daisies collaborates with reputable green partners every year, incorporating innovative, environmentally conscious initiatives into the festival and spreading the message of ‘play hard, tread lightly‘.
This year the festival is supported by the World Wildlife Fund and the festival will once again work closely with Food and Trees for Africa to offset its carbon footprint.
Says Brian Little, Festival Director: “Our mission is to not only educate our community on living greener lifestyles, but to show them how to do it too”.
According to Tony Budden, co-owner of Hemporium and green consultant to the festival: “This year our aim is to make the green initiatives much more visual and integrated into the festival so that the festival-goers can all experience them first hand. It is often too easy for the green aspect to get missed when a festival is in full swing. We are therefore going to be working with exciting new partners and innovative products in order to bring the greening elements to the fore”.
Green Initiatives Planned for 2009
From transport initiatives, solar and wind powered electricity, bio-diesel generators and LED lighting to complimentary bio-degradable soaps and shampoos, recycling and tree planting initiatives. Rocking the Daisies explores every avenue to make this the most carbon neutral green event possible.
- ‘Walk to Daisies‘ – Walk to Rocking the Daisies and receive a free festival ticket.
- ‘Cycle to Daisies‘ – Cycle to Rocking the Daisies and receive 50% discount off your festival ticket.
- Public transport initiative – Bus shuttle services to and from festival including ticket and accommodation.
- Goodie bags – on arrival each festival attendee will receive a goodie bag with portable ashtrays, rubbish bags and a festival magazine filled with information and greening tips – printed on recycled paper.
- Festival merchandise – All festival merchandise is produced from environmentally friendly hemp fabric and all tickets will be printed on 100% hemp paper.
- Recycling – There are 3 different recycling companies we will be using this year.
From 9 September you can purchase your tickets at the following participating outlets:
- All Levis® stores, Western Cape
- Hemporium store (114 Constantia Main Rd, Wynberg)
- Rafiki’s Restaurant (Kloofnek Road, Cape Town)
Rocking the Daisies in Jo’burg
Complete Events in partnership with Oppikoppi Productions, are bringing Rocking the Daisies to Johannesburg in the form of Rocking the Gardens. The one day event will take place on 3 October 2009 as part of the Old Mutual Encounters Series at Emmarentia Dam, Rocking the Gardens will host SA’s hottest bands.
Says Little, “We are very excited to be extending our festival to other reaches of the country. There is a demand for a festival of this nature in the Jo’burg region and we are pleased to be collaborating with Oppikoppi Productions and Old Mutual to offer the North a taste of the Daisies spirit.”
For more information on Rocking the Gardens go to www.rockingthegardens.co.za.
