Lake of Stars to take year off in 2012

Festival takes a year off to return in 2013

Malawi | by Chris Swindells | 27 January 2012

Foals, Freshlyground, Maskal and Baio (Vampire Weekend) were amongst the acts who played Lake of Stars 2011.

Speaking from Malawi, Will Jameson the Director and founder of Lake of Stars said: “Lake of Stars has always been about much more than just an annual festival.  It’s a year-round project to promote arts, travel and development, but staging the Festival consumes all of our small team’s time and resources making it difficult to focus on our other goals.
 
“After eight years of the festival, we have decided to take stock of our experiences in putting the Festival together, and spend some time supporting local initiatives in Malawi. We also want to take time this year to incorporate the feedback from Malawians and international festival goers, artists and sponsors to help us build a bigger and better event in 2013.”

The festival saw record attendance in 2011 and the project has reached an audience of over 300 million people through media coverage since 2009.  The 2011 festival generated $1.3 million dollars of local spend and the organisers are expected to return with dates for Lake of Stars 2013 festival in late 2012.

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