Hopkins Creek Festival (Taungurung Country (near Bendigo), Australia) 2026

Hopkins Creek runs from 6 to 9 November 2026 on Taungurung Country at Glenaroua in central Victoria, and the organisers are billing this edition as The Last Dance. The festival has built a reputation over the past decade as one of the best programmed small events in Australia, with a bill that reaches well beyond the usual touring circuit.

The 2026 line up carries dBridge from the United Kingdom, Jack J, Powder, Eric Duncan from the United States, Frank Booker from New Zealand, Richard Sen, Almunia live from Italy, Dea Barandana and Precious Bloom from Indonesia and Eiji Taniguchi from Japan, alongside Australian names including Sleep D, Cale Sexton live, Krakatau, Kutcha Edwards, Dreems, Ex Ponto, Jen Moore, Marley Swain, Mabel, Montana, Tangerine and Wax Nomads. More than 50 artists play across the weekend.

Tickets go through Humanitix. The festival publishes a community care framework and a get involved programme alongside the practical information, and it acknowledges the Taungurung peoples as the traditional owners of the land it uses. Glenaroua sits around an hour and a half north of Melbourne and 40 minutes from Seymour, which is on the rail line. For an Australian bush music festival with this quality of booking, there is nothing else quite like it.