Top line-up planned for El Grande music festival

THE Gladstone El Grande music festival line-up has been announced.

Organiser Tim Price said he expected a crowd of 600 on each of the festival's two-days at the Grand Hotel in Gladstone.

He said the line up for the March 21-22 event was "very high calibre".

"(Fellow organiser) Nathan Bedford and I were figuring out what it is what the Gladstone people want," he said.

"It's not just a case of what's hot right now in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, but what people are talking about in Gladstone."

The line-up includes:

• 28 Days
• DZ Deathrays
• Dream On Dreamer
• Tiki Taane Tikidub Productions
• D At Sea
• Voyager Australia
• Sydonia
• Ezekiel Ox
• DrawCard
• The City Shakeup
• Guards Of May
• Strictly Ballroom
• Bearfoot
• The Short Fall
• The Bucketseats
• Satellites
• Dollarosa
• Red in Tooth
• Animal Throwdown
• La Mont
• The Bucketseats
• Best Friends
• A Direst Desire
• Agnes Blue