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The first line-up of artists announced for Fire Fight Australia

January 13 - Latest News, Music, Performance

With so many lives lost, countless homes destroyed, an estimated one billion animals killed and around 11 million hectares of Australia’s pristine bushland razed, TEG Dainty and TEG Live are proud and humbled to pr...

New opportunities open for contemporary music touring across Australia...

January 10 - Creative Industries, Latest News, Music

Increased investment in contemporary music will enable more opportunities for Australian musicians to tour to more audiences in more destinations across Australia. As part of the Australian Music Industry Package announc...

St Kilda Festival Main Stage - photo by Nathan Doran

St Kilda Festival 2020 announces full line-up for 40th anniversary

January 8 - Latest News, Music, Performance

Taking place on Sunday 9 February, the iconic St Kilda Festival has announced an incredible line-up for its 40th anniversary year. Attracting over 400,000 people to St Kilda’s picturesque foreshore annually, since its in...

A poster for the 1963 film Beach Party. Alta Vista Productions

Surf music – in praise of strings, sand and the endless swell

January 8 - Music, Opinion

The first tune I ever wrote – a proper tune, with an intro, verses, choruses and a middle bit – was a surfing instrumental. I have always been a pretty crappy singer, and I figured that the guitar could sing ...

The Choir of Man

January 4 - Latest Reviews, Music, Performance

The premise of the show is well stated, that the authentic pub experience is being either diluted, modernised, or – worst of all – torn down to be redeveloped. Thus this group of friends, this choir of men, a...

Peninsula Summer Music Festival 2020

December 23 - Festivals, Music, Performance

In a sonic delight of classical vocals and instrumentalists, gypsy folk song, jazz, opera and immersive musical moments for children, the exquisite sounds of the Peninsula Summer Music Festival will spill out across Vict...

The Choir of Man

December 20 - Music, Performance

Fresh from the stages of their world tour, including the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals and a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House, The Choir of Man offer up 90 minutes of indisputable joy at Arts Centre Me...

Celebrating Richard Mills

December 12 - Music, Performance

Some of Australia’s major opera stars and performers will come together for a musical party of a lifetime to celebrate composer-conductor Richard Mills AM at Melbourne Recital Centre’s Elisabeth Murdoch Hall on Friday 13...