Wild Horses Festival (Carapooee West, Australia) 2026

Wild Horses Festival runs from 13 to 16 November 2026 at Carapooee West in the Victorian wheatbelt, four days of camping and music in the bush north west of Bendigo. The festival sits in the Australian doof tradition, built on a private property with the programme running through the nights rather than closing at a curfew.

The booking covers psychedelic trance, techno and the deeper end of electronic music, and the festival publishes full set films from each edition alongside its official aftermovie, with recordings from Artmis, Squid, Eukai and Sandman among those online. That archive is a better guide to what the weekend sounds like than any line up poster.

Tickets are sold through the festival’s own site. Carapooee West sits around three hours north west of Melbourne and 90 minutes beyond Bendigo, in open farming country where the nights are dark and cold even in mid November, so warm camping kit matters. The nearest town of any size is St Arnaud, 20 minutes away, which is where to stock up before arriving. For an Australian bush music festival that has kept its own character, this is one of the better kept secrets.