{"id":8170,"date":"2023-11-22T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2023-11-22T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:14:48","slug":"beat-magazine-mona-foma-how-a-festival-at-the-end-of-the-earth-before-antarctica-became-one-of-the-worlds-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/beat-magazine-mona-foma-how-a-festival-at-the-end-of-the-earth-before-antarctica-became-one-of-the-worlds-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Magazine | Mona Foma: How a festival at the \u2018end of the earth before Antarctica\u2019 became one of the world\u2019s greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8170\" class=\"elementor elementor-8170\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c34e341 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c34e341\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ee7b31\" data-id=\"6ee7b31\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d07bb8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d07bb8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>What\u2019s so sweet about being 16? \u201cFreedom, experimentation, fun,\u201d according to Brian Ritchie, Artistic Director of Mona Foma and ex-Violent Femmes bassist, as he describes Tasmania\u2019s summer festival of music and art\u2019s sixteenth edition.<\/h2><p><span style=\"font-family: Rubik, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 300;\">\u201cIt\u2019s such a long time to be doing a festival and have it still relatively fresh and vibrant,\u201d he says. But while the festival\u2019s goals remain the same \u2013 mixing genres of music and art \u2013 this year\u2019s iteration has a particularly international flavour. Across 17 days, two cities and three weekends, a global contingent of over 500 performers and artists, including Queens of the Stone Age after a six-year hiatus, will amp up the early 2024 event.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bee19e elementor-button-warning elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4bee19e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/beat.com.au\/mona-foma-how-a-festival-at-the-end-of-the-earth-before-antarctica-became-one-of-the-worlds-greatest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read via Beat 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data-id=\"a78fc30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-686ccf4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"686ccf4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=1y6rl1lmmeU&amp;t=408s&amp;ab_channel=C%27estTahney%3A%29&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div 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