Bay Dreams


Bay Dreams is an annual music festival held in Tauranga and Nelson, New Zealand.
The festival began in Tauranga in 2016 and in 2019 expanded to Nelson.

Line-ups

2016

Bay Dreams launched on 02 January 2016. It featured Pendulum, David Dallas, Carmada, P-Money, and The Black Seeds.

2017

Bay Dreams 2017 took place on 02 January 2017, quickly arising to become the largest summer festival that season with over 18,500 attendees. It featured Yelawolf, Shapeshifter, Sticky Fingers, Grandmaster Flash, Peking Duk, Ryan Hemsworth, and Mitch James

2018

Bay Dreams 2018 took place on 02 January 2018. It featured DJ Snake, Foster the People, Machine Gun Kelly, Ocean Alley.

2019

North

Bay Dreams North 2019 took place on 02 January 2019, with a warm up event on January 1st. It featured Cardi B, Rich The Kid, Tash Sultana, Shapeshifter, Sticky Fingers, Peking Duk, Suicideboys, Macky Gee, Pnau, Sheck Wes, Katchafire.
Migos were scheduled to perform, however pulled out of the festival and were replaced with Sheck Wes and Rich The Kid.
30,000 attended the event making it New Zealand's largest festival.

South

Bay Dreams South 2019 launched on 04 January 2019. It featured Tash Sultana, Shapeshifter, Sticky Fingers, Peking Duk, Suicideboys, Macky Gee, Pnau, Katchafire.
20,000 attended this first event making it the largest festival in the South Island.