If you tire easily of long, gray North American and European winters, consider checking out January flights to Sydney and airline tickets for cheap vacation time in Australia. The Sydney Festival has been held annually for over thirty years and is a three-week celebration of both Australian and international arts and culture. Plus, it will be a beautiful summer in Sydney, which is another incentive to book cheap flight tickets and get some sun. To listen to some exhilarating music, dance and watch theater performances from all over the world, book cheap tickets to Sydney today.
Ring in the celebrations after your cheap flights to Sydney on Festival First Night, the first Saturday of the festival, with free concerts and a range of outdoor performances. Just a few First Night performers from previous years include Brian Wilson, Sharon Jones and the Dapkings, and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. About 200,000 people show up to the First Night events, and about a million usually attend at least one event during the festival. Although festival events are held at over 20 locations around the city, including many iconic theaters, quite a few concerts are held in beautiful outdoor venues like the Botanic Gardens and Hyde Park. Hyde Park is the temporary home to the Festival Garden, with a program of burlesque performances and musical productions. At Beck’s Festival Bar in the Hyde Park Barracks, you’ll find late night entertainment and international DJs. Some of the genres represented at the festival include jazz (showcased at regular concerts at Summer Sounds in the Domain), classical performances and contemporary genres like American-style rap.
Although the exact details of the Sydney Festival program for 2012 are still a secret, you can register on the official website to receive a full brochure of names and acts in November. One main act that has been confirmed, though, is a collaborative music, film and theater event showcasing the Aboriginal story of Australia’s ancestors. This production, called I Am Eora, features work by 30 Aboriginal artists and performers. It is always an emphasis at the Sydney Festival to promote local up-and-coming artists as well as the headliners arriving on flights to Sydney from all over the world. The Sydney Festival also has a reputation for bringing international stars to Australia for the first time, like the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Batsheva Dance Company, the National Theatre of Scotland, Al Green, Philip Glass, Ian McKellen, and Sufjan Stevens. To see up to 1,000 artists and witness Australia’s most attended cultural event, get flight tickets cheap and experience the Sydney Festival.
After finding flight tickets for cheap, you can purchase tickets to many of the headlining events in advance for $30 or get them on the day of the performances for just $25. Book cheap flights to Sydney and take part in this beloved expression of Australia’s artistic heritage.
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