We've packed the esky full of the best local ingredients including over 90 music acts, workshops, visual art, theatre, poetry, outdoor cinema and beach sports. Grab your togs, your mates and get down to Melbourne's famous beachside playground for the real dose of summer you've been waiting all year for!
Head to the Festival Info Booth on the corner of Acland St & Shakespeare Grove from Saturday 5 February if you want to know more details about the really good stuff happening. While you're there, pick up a map - there's a stack of goodies to be won!

WEEK OF THE WIND - KITEBOARDING
| 12 February 2011, 10:00 AM |
| St Kilda West Beach |
Check kitemag.com for more info |
St Kilda Festival Showdown Kiteboarding and Stand Up Paddle Surfing.
Watch Australia’s top kiteboarders fight it out to claim cash and prizes for big air, course racing and open freestyle events at the 2011 St Kilda Festival. Week...

SAM LEMANN ALL STARS
| 12 February 2011, 12:00 PM |
| Claypots Tavern & Fair |
213 Barkly St FREE |
With a wide range of styles at his finger tips, Sam is the the preferred guitarist of many singers and bandleaders for cocktail bars, corporate events, T.V shows, lazy evening concerts and the odd international or interstate...

TROPICAL GORDON
| 12 February 2011, FROM 9:30 PM |
| Felix Bar |
43 Fitzroy St FREE |
Tropical Gordon are darlings of the Melbourne music scene who are set to become one of the next crop of successful artists to conquer the airwaves in 2011.
This four piece band has a big sound reminiscent of Florence & The Machine and...

WILD CAT
| 12 February 2011, FROM 9:30 PM |
| Felix Bar |
43 Fitzroy St FREE |
Wild Cat are a Melbourne four-piece who play a frenetic kind of indie synth-rock, combining something of the lushelectronic world of M83 with the nearly-but-not-quite-out-of-control energy of Arcade Fire.
Wild Cat’s music is insistent,...

POLAR NATION
| 12 February 2011, FROM 9:30 PM |
| Felix Bar |
43 Fitzroy St FREE |
Reminiscent of sounds your spirit knows, Polar Nation will shock you into a rediscovery of what urban is all about. Polar Nation are genre-defying & game-changing. The EP was cut at Hot House in Melbourne, mixed in LA [Beverly Hills] by Chris...
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