Sonfest

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For the Canadian world music festival, see Sunfest

[edit] About

Sonfest was an annual 3-4 day Christian music festival held in Boonah, Queensland, Queensland, Australia. It featured artists and speakers from Australia and around the world. Thousands came from all over Australia for the festival, some people coming from as far as New Zealand. Some big Christian names that have been at Sonfest include Relient K, Pillar, Third Day, Audio Adrenaline, Fido, The Supertones, Wishful Thinking, Newsboys, Jars of Clay and many more. It's been said that when Sonfest is on that the population of Boonah triples.

In 2006 the annual Sonfest Festival was canceled with the following message on the Sonfest website:

Thank you to everyone who has been enquiring about Sonfest 2006. Unfortunately Sonfest Music Festival is will not be on in 2006. We thank everyone for their support of Sonfest for the past 5 years and understand that there will be a lot of speculation regarding why this has happened. Please know that this decision was not made lightly and did not come about due to one overwhelming reason, rather there were several factors that have lead to this. Sonfest is still very dedicated to touring the top Christian bands from around the world and we still hope to be able to restart Sonfest in the future.

It has been confirmed that costing and geographical issues were among the reasons for the cancellation.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 2008: Event currently seems defunct

As of Jan 2008, there has been no change to the official web page advising a return.

[edit] External links

• Sonfest Festival Website

-Sonfest is also the name of an annual music festival held on the campus of Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Information can be obtained by going to the main Sonfest website.