With much media attention to the NSW Government's new music festival rules recently, organisers of Farmer and the Owl are reassuring fans the show will go on.
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Despite not being granted an official licence a week out from Saturday's event, the government's change to the regulations have signaled the Wollongong festival will be safe.
In a statement, organisers said authorities sent them an email at 10pm last Friday alerting them their event was no longer classified as "high-risk" and their original license approval was reinstated.
On Saturday, the government named 14 "high-risk" festivals which would be made to abide by new regulations beginning on March 1 - no South Coast event was included on that list.
Hockey Dad, Beach House, New War, The Pinheads and Deafheaven are some of the acts performing at Farmer and the Owl - MacCabe Park from midday on Saturday.
The 'high-risk' festival list:
- Days Like This
- Transmission
- Up Down
- Defqon.1
- Subsonic
- This That
- Knockout Games of Destiny
- Lost Paradise
- FOMO
- Electric Gardens
- HTID
- Rolling Loud
- Laneway
- Ultra