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Broken Hill Mundi Mundi Bash has sold out its 2026 edition, with nearly 15,000 people expected to attend the outback Australian music festival later this month.
The three-day camping festival is set for Aug. 20-22 at Belmont Station on the Mundi Mundi Plains, about 35 km north of Broken Hill in New South Wales.
This year’s lineup includes The Teskey Brothers, Jon Stevens, John Butler, Boy & Bear, Baby Animals, Jessica Mauboy, The Whitlams, Leo Sayer, Tim Finn, Troy Cassar-Daley, Chocolate Starfish, Mi-Sex, Furnace and the Fundamentals, Wendy Matthews, The Radiators, Shane Howard and Fanny Lumsden.
The sellout marks a significant result for the regional destination event, which organizers say has reached capacity less than a month out from showtime despite broader cost-of-living pressures and higher travel costs affecting discretionary spending.
“It’s exciting to announce that we’re at capacity — with nearly 15,000 people set to rock the Outback this month,” Greg Donovan, festival founder and managing director of the Outback Music Festival Group, said in a statement. “Thousands of these travellers are already hitting the road and going to join us for our new Lightfest event that will be staged on the streets of Broken Hill in the week leading into the Mundi Mundi Bash.”
For Outback Music Festival Group, the 2026 result extends a sellout streak for the event, which launched during a difficult period for Australia’s live sector and has built its audience around destination travel, camping culture and multi-generational Australian music programming.
“We launched the Mundi Mundi Bash during very tough times for events,” Donovan said. “We survived the Covid years consistently selling out the event, and this year it’s been the fuel crisis and tough economic times that have impacted consumer spending. And yet here we are — announcing a sellout of our biggest event yet.”
He added, “We’re incredibly grateful for our audience who choose to spend their time and money with us, we’re going to repay that support with an incredible party in the desert later this month.”
The 2026 edition will also expand the event’s footprint beyond the festival site with Lightfest, a free prelude event staged in the streets of Broken Hill in the week before the Bash. The three-night activation will feature a large-scale drone light show and street programming for both locals and incoming festivalgoers.
Lightfest is part of the Transport for NSW Open Streets Program: Foundation Events 2026-27, which is designed to bring activity into streets across New South Wales. The program forms part of the NSW Government’s Vibrant Streets Package.
Another new addition is Bash Choir, which replaces the festival’s previous Nutbush world-record attempt. Taking place Friday, Aug. 21, the choir event will see thousands of attendees gather in the main concert area to learn and perform Tina Turner’s “The Best” — often referred to as “Simply the Best” — in a nod to the festival’s previous Tina Turner-linked Nutbush tradition. The activation will raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Other off-stage programming includes the Big Blue Day map of Australia world-record attempt, raising funds for Beyond Blue; the Mundi Undie Run, also raising funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service; Mad Max dress-up; camel and helicopter rides; comedy; morning yoga on the plains; and dunny door painting.
The all-ages, dog-friendly and BYO festival is aimed at families, grey nomads, camping and caravanning travelers and destination-event audiences. Ticket holders can bring their own food and alcohol, with food vendors and non-alcoholic beverages also available on site.
The Broken Hill Mundi Mundi Bash is supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and events agency, Destination NSW.
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