By Donna Jones
With more than 800 camping passes pre-sold for the 2022 Gympie Music Muster, there was plenty of action at the Amamoor Creek State Forest with the first rope off.
Although the festival, now running for the 40th time, is still a whole month away, the annual rope off ritual brings pilgrims from across the country and from our own backyards to stake out their little patch of paradise ahead of the region’s biggest music festival.
Some spent a cool night in their car in anticipation of the 7am start, but others had been camping out in the day area for up to a week, to ensure they were first in the queue to get their favourite ’possie’.
Craig Campbell, the Muster site manager was very happy with the way the 2022 program is shaping up.
“The people that have turned up for the pre-rope off is just unbelievable – these Muster people are so dedicated and amazing – they’re just great people,“ he said.
“It’s awesome, I mean, to see a kilometre of cars lined up a month out from a festival.
“It just doesn’t happen anywhere else in Australia – probably even not the world,“ he said.
“We were very lucky and blessed to have this beautiful scenery and to have this festival here.
“Unfortunately Covid has put a stop to it for a couple of years, but now we’re back bigger and better,“ Mr Campbell said.
