ORGANISERS hope that an "amazing line-up" and Tasmania's unique experiences will keep the Falls Festival at Marion Bay afloat after it was announced yesterday that the event will expand to Byron Bay this year.
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Concerns were immediately raised that the third location - in addition to Marion Bay and Lorne, Victoria - would detract attendance from Tasmania.
Each festival will run over New Year's Eve.
For the 2011-12 Marion Bay event, more than half of the 16,000 tickets for the festival were sold to interstate punters. Last year, Marion Bay organisers said that without funding - which was eventually delivered by philanthropist Graeme Wood - the Tasmanian leg would not continue.
Event director Paul Piticco said festival organisers always had to keep one eye on the bottom line of the Tasmanian show. "We do have a concern about the Byron event taking patrons that may have gone to Marion Bay, but we are hoping that the amazing line-up we have this year, paired with the unique experiences that people can have throughout the state while they are there, will be enough to counteract anything too dire," he said.
