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Yabun Festival celebrates survival and culture

January 25 - Latest News, Music, Performance

The City of Sydney is proud to again support Yabun – one of the country’s largest gatherings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures at Victoria Park on Sunday 26 January 2020. The theme for th...

Eurovision Australia Decides Måns Zelmerlöw - courtesy of SBS

Eurovision royalty to grace Eurovision – Australia Decides 2020

January 24 - Music, Performance

SBS and Blink TV have announced that Swedish pop phenomenon and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, Måns Zelmerlöw, is heading to the Gold Coast to perform and be one of the Jury members for Eurovision – Au...

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...