What is happening with the High Vottage event, the WA Government said would become an annual event? We had the really invigorating event on May 7 last year, and it was announced well before that, in November 2022. But we have heard absolutely nothing about the event returning to Fremantle this year.
The WA Government promoted it this way:
"Western Australia's new free homegrown High Voltage rock n' roll festival inspired by local legend Bon Scott will take to the streets of Fremantle in a huge celebration of local talent and creativity.
There will be more than 50 performances and events along a 5km street circuit and three festival sites during the historic one-day festival on Sunday, 7 May.
Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Fremantle in what is intended to become a major annual tourism event.
High Voltage is a State-owned event delivered by Tourism WA and produced by Perth Festival's new out-of-season Special Projects arm and supported by the City of Fremantle.
The centrepiece of the festival will be a procession of bands playing on seven flatbed trucks over two hours while doing a lap of Fremantle from Fremantle Oval to South Beach then back to central Fremantle, passing the Esplanade near the Bon Scott statue along the way."
So is the event simply quietly disappearing and no one talking about it any more? That would be extremely disappointing!
Roel Loopers
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