Byron Bay Festival

The Meeting Place

Byron Bay is a tropical coastal town, nestled in the caldera of an ancient shield volcano at Australia’s most easterly point. Mount Warning (Wollumbin) is the first place on the mainland to receive the sun’s rays everyday.The local Arakwal Aboriginal people's name for the area is Cavvanbah, meaning Meeting Place.The beauty of this unique environment is world renowned and has inspired countless creatives; artists, musicians & designers - which has turned the Shire into a thriving cultural hub.The Byron Bay Festival celebrates the cycles and rhythms of this harmonic convergence; at this meeting point of the earthly & the ethereal.