About
Sonfest
was an annual 3-4 day
Christian music festival held in
Boonah, Queensland,
Queensland,
Australia.
It featured artists and speakers from Australia and around the world. Thousands came from all over Australia for the festival, some people coming from as far as
New Zealand. Some big Christian names that have been at Sonfest include
Relient K,
Pillar,
Third Day,
Audio Adrenaline,
Fido,
The Supertones,
Wishful Thinking,
Newsboys,
Jars of Clay and many more. It's been said that when Sonfest is on that the population of Boonah triples.
In 2006 the annual Sonfest Festival was canceled with the following message on the Sonfest website:
Thank you to everyone who has been enquiring about Sonfest 2006. Unfortunately Sonfest Music Festival is will not be on in 2006. We thank everyone for their support of Sonfest for the past 5 years and understand that there will be a lot of speculation regarding why this has happened. Please know that this decision was not made lightly and did not come about due to one overwhelming reason, rather there were several factors that have lead to this. Sonfest is still very dedicated to touring the top Christian bands from around the world and we still hope to be able to restart Sonfest in the future.
It has been confirmed that costing and geographical issues were among the reasons for the cancellation.
2008: Event currently seems defunct
In early November, Easterfest announced on their website that Sonfest would return in January 2009.