The annual festival focuses on music that can be played anywhere, anytime.

Musicians play a variety of music at venues throughout the town, including churches, halls, gardens and verandahs.

Organiser Ash Teasdale said overall it was a great event.

“We haven’t tallied all the numbers yet, but there was easily a couple of hundred people around,” he said.

“There were solid crowds all day.

“Every venue I went to had about 40 to 60 people there and we had seven venues.”

Mr Teasdale said performers ranged from professional bands playing pub rock to folk and country singers and a man playing Irish small pipes.

“There was also a few amateurs playing for the first time and a few young people giving it a go,” he said.

“Everyone just seemed to be there, enjoying the music.”

The event coincided with Russian artist Julia Volchkova painting the town’s silos as part of Yarriambiack Shire’s Silo Art Trail. 

Mr Teasdale said the painting certainly helped with crowd numbers.

“It would have helped anyone who was thinking about coming to see the silos being painted decide to come,” he said.

“It was a good excuse to visit Rupanyup and I know a lot of the artists who came popped over to check out the silos.

“It was really exciting to see so many people wandering around town.”

The Rupanyup Dirt Music Festival is in its seventh year.

Mr Teasdale said it was growing each year.

“Every year people come along and enjoy it, so they come back the year after with a friend,” he said.

“It is certainly growing bit by bit each year and it’s good to see it build.”