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This hopefully/defintely fascinating behind the scenes blog, with regular contributions from all St Kilda Festival staff will let you know what we’re all up to as we produce this great music festival.

Firstly, for those of you not familiar with St Kilda Festival, here's a pretty picture from the last one- February 2010:

And a bit more about it:

The St Kilda Festival is an annual event produced and presented by the City of Port Phillip. At its heart it is a free community celebration of and for one of Melbourne’s most renowned locations. Regularly attracting crowds of more than 300,000 people to its outdoor celebration, the festival is a summer landmark for Melbourne, inviting people of all ages to come together and at thirty one years old, it is one of Australia’s oldest surviving community music festivals.

St Kilda Festival is nine days long and made up of three components. The first is Yalukit Willam Ngargee, People Place Gathering (5 February 2011): an outdoor Indigenous festival featuring music, dance, children’s activities, theatre and more that welcomes people to St Kilda for the week ahead.

Live N Local (6-12 February 2011) follows, with St Kilda venues throwing their doors open to host a variety of local bands, musicians, performers, artists and comedians in a  series of one off and special events – everything you love about St Kilda and more.

And finally, the big one  Festival Sunday (13 February 2011) –where people are treated to a rich and diverse range of Australian talent, with more than 50 bands performing across the stages, plus extreme sports, dance, children’s entertainment...the list goes on and on. Set against the backdrop of St Kilda, St Kilda Festival is the only place to be on the second Sunday in February.

We'll be updating these entries regularly, so come back and see what we're up to...