Laneway Festival and Maribyrnong City Council are beyond thrilled to share details of the brand new Melbourne site. Moving around the corner from its beloved home for the past nine years, Laneway Festival Melbourne will be held at Footscray Park, Footscray in 2019.

The new site retains all the elements that we loved about our original Footscray Community Arts Centre home – the stunning city views, the local community, the Maribyrnong River – but allows for a more flexible, convenient placement of stages and amenities. A short walk from Footscray station, the beautiful, green, heritage-listed site features bountiful garden beds, ponds and trees for shade: in other words, it’s the ultimate location for a summer festival.

The move to Footscray Park marks an exciting new chapter for the Melbourne Laneway Festival, which started in a Lonsdale St alleyway fifteen years ago and came of age at the Footscray Community Arts Centre site. To accommodate the ever-evolving vision for the festival, the organisers worked closely with the Maribyrnong Council to secure the new and improved home.

All dates, venues and the full-line up for the fifteenth edition of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival will be revealed soon. Punters should sign up to the mailing list at lanewayfestival.com for more info.