Port Fairy Folk Festival announces special online event, Home Folk

Port Fairy Folk Festival has teamed up with Geelong Arts Centre to present a special digital event following the cancellation…

The Living End, Jeff Lang, Kate Miller-Heidke and more revealed for Bluesfest 2021

Forging on with their plans for 2021, Byron Bay Bluesfest has just bolstered their lineup with eight Aussie favourites revealed…

Aussie promoters have created a world-first COVID safe music festival format

Ever since COVID entered our lives and broke the hearts of music fans worldwide, the question about the future of…

BIGSOUND just dropped the first lineup of keynote speakers and it’s juicy AF

Following the recent news that BIGSOUND 2020 will be presented as a free digital event, the annual music extravaganza has…

Boogie Festival has made the call on their 2020 event

The 14th instalment of Boogie Festival has been postponed from 2020’s Melbourne Cup long weekend to April 2 to 4,…

Meredith Music Festival cancelled for 2020

Meredith Music Festival has announced it will no longer go ahead in 2020. The event was scheduled to take place…

Byron Bay Bluesfest announce 10 Australian acts for 2021 lineup

After managing to re-book several of the international highlights from this year’s intended event, Bluesfest have now revealed their first…

Port Fairy Folk Festival cancels their 2021 event

In another blow for regional Victoria, organisers of the Port Fairy Folk Festival have cancelled the 2021 event, due to…

Festivals to receive restart grants as part of Federal Government’s $250 million JobMaker plan

The Federal Government has announced some of the details of its $250 million JobMaker plan it revealed in late June….

10 definitive Australian rock tracks, according to The Casanovas

Historically speaking, the greatest rock’n’roll stories tend not to be the ones about the bands who burn fast and hard,…

The US are floating the idea of ‘bubble festivals’ and we want in

The world is missing festivals… so much so that there’s talk of applying the ‘bubble’ model to them as early…

Rosie Roulette shines with originality

If you were to imagine a Tim Burton heroine combined with Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls, you might come…

The Lost Lands announce cancellation for 2020

From humble beginnings in 2016, the Lost Lands has become one of Australia’s leading festival for families, enabling people of…

Loch Hart Music Festival has officially been cancelled for 2020

Created as an opportunity to showcase local up-and-coming Australian talent and the very aesthetically pleasing Great Ocean Road (and all…

Bluesfest report reveals grave economic loss from festival cancellation

With the Australian bushfires and then the Coronavirus pandemic forcing the cancellation and postponement of hundreds of concerts, conferences, events…

It’s official… Queenscliff Music Festival is postponed to 2021

The beloved festival has made the difficult decision.

Yours & Owls just dropped their 2021 festival lineup and what a comeback

Please welcome your class of 2021.

BIGSOUND to go ahead this year in groundbreaking, reimagined event

As part of a revised program across two days and two nights.

 

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