2024 Gympie Music Muster Celebrates 'Record-Breaking' Attendance

This year’s Gympie Music Muster took place last week – Thursday, 22 August, to Sunday, 25 August—and was a great success, breaking attendance records.

According to a news report on 7NEWS Sunshine Coast, the 2024 edition of the Gympie Music Muster was packed with a record-breaking 50,000 enthusiastic punters.

“A record-breaking 50,000 people have packed into Gympie for the annual music muster,” the caption to a video posted this morning (27 August) reads.

“Boot-scooters from all over packed in for a mammoth festival, headlined by some of the biggest names in Australian country music.”

In the brief report, 7NEWS’ Dani Sharp said, “Hailed as the biggest Gympie Music Muster yet, it’s certainly loud enough to earn the title.”

Adding that “die-hard fans” had been camping in the vicinity “for weeks,” Sharp said that an estimated 8,000 people attended the festival site each night and that the event broke its record for the number of season passes sold, securing its future in an uncertain market for music festivals.

You can watch the news report below, with the segment also airing on Channel 7 on the Sunshine Coast from 6 pm tonight.

To secure tickets to next year’s event, you can purchase Early Bird tickets to the 2025 Gympie Music Muster here. Next year’s festival will take place from 28 to 31 August 2025.

This year’s Gympie Music Muster boasted the likes of Casey Barnes, Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham, Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows and Dragon. 

The festival also locked in country, rock, and alt-country favourites such as James Johnston, Brad Cox, Lee Kernaghan, Beccy Cole, Amber Lawrence, Lane Pittman, Shannon Noll, Tex Perkins, Pierce Brothers, and Richard Clapton.

2024’s Australian Idol winner and one-half of Sons Of Atticus, Dylan Wright, also took to the Muster stage, as did his fellow Idol contestant, Denvah.