The Gum Ball Festival

Dashville is super proud to officially announce, our most cherished cultural escape, The Gum Ball, is here, on the table, ready to celebrate a very special 20th anniversary in 2025.

Running across three glorious nights, 25th, 26th  & 27th  April 2025, with the additional special prelude warm up concert on Thursday 24th April, held on the majestic bushlands of Dashville (Wonnarua) Lower Belford, Hunter Valley, NSW.

It’s a remarkable achievement, not only to be considered one of the best laid-back festivals in existence, but for this little grass roots ‘bush party’, that kicked off on mum and dads front yard in 2005, to grow to become a bonafide cultural institution for the region, as a hub for musical inspiration and community, creating an awesome platform for artist and audience development, for all those who have contributed to where we have landed, we are incredibly grateful.

In what has become a volatile world for the music and events industry, The Gum Ball has not only survived, it has prospered and some may say... we could be just beginning.