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Australian festival Groovin The Moo cancelled just two weeks after announcement

A major Aussie festival set to feature the likes of Spice Girls star Melanie C and rock band Jet has been cancelled for 2024. Groovin The Moo was due to kick off in South Australia in two months, however organisers have now revealed the tour will no longer be going ahead this year. In an email on Thursday morning, event organisers delivered the bad news to ticketholders, claiming they hadn’t […]

todayFebruary 14, 2024 1

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How to Watch the 2024 Australian Open for Free Without Cable – Billboard

All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The 2024 Australian Open is in full swing! The tennis tournament, which runs from Jan. 13-28, continued Tuesday (Jan. 23) with a packed schedule of matches between players from around the globe. Among the lineup, Ukraine’s […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024 2

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SoundMerch Australian Music Prize Reveals 2023 Shortlist | theMusic.com.au

More Angie McMahon Nine albums have been shortlisted for the prestigious SoundMerch Australian Music Prize, with some of this year’s best local releases vying for the title and its $30K cash prize. The 19th SoundMerch Australian Music Prize shines a spotlight on albums released between January 1 to October 27, celebrating “the album as an art form”, with judges narrowing down this year’s shortlist from almost 450 eligible releases. The […]

todayNovember 28, 2023 1

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DEM MOB dominates South Australian Music Awards in 2023

In a show of exuberance, the South Australian music community came together at Woodville Town Hall to celebrate. Indigenous act DEM MOB shone, winning five awards, including the prestigious Emily Burrows Award, which includes a $5,000 grant for professional development. They also took home Best Regional Artist, Best Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Artist, and secured the Best Hip Hop award in the People’s Choice category. In addition to their […]

todayNovember 10, 2023 2

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Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: November 2023

Welcome to the Australian Art Music playlist! A monthly playlist of classical, jazz, experimental and electronic music focused on contemporary Australian composers, musicians and sound artists. 2023 has had a wealth of new music, and it’s been a pleasure to pull together some of the most recent releases for this month’s playlist. In a time when the future is looking scarier and scarier for independent artists to earn from streaming […]

todayNovember 8, 2023 10

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Australia’s live music scene ‘decimated’, with 1,300 venues lost since pandemic | Australian music

More than 1,300 live music venues and stages across Australia have been lost permanently since Covid restrictions began, shrinking the live music scene for small to medium gigs by one-third over the past three years, according to Apra Amcos’s annual report.Australian music fans flocking to large-scale concerts by huge international acts such as Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Harry Styles has delivered a record year in licensing fee earnings for […]

todayOctober 20, 2023 6

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Australian video-game music is an exciting area of cultural activity – and you should be paying attention

An enthusiastic, sellout crowd arrived at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall in September to hear an evening of music from Orchestra Victoria. The program consisted largely of Australian music and premiere performances. If the sight of 3,500 filled seats (filled, anecdotally, by those much younger than the typical orchestra audience) did not indicate how deeply this music was loved, then the standing ovation at the end of the night would leave no-one […]

todayOctober 8, 2023 2

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Australian Chamber Orchestra star Satu Vänskä is a surf-loving, principle violinist from Finland

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeWHAT’S YOUR ultimate surf music? “1 Giant Leap’s 2002 debut album: In 2004, a surf movie called Blue Horizon was in the cinemas, which my friend Derek Hynd was involved in. I had only started learning to surf a month earlier and it was the first movie I saw in Australia. I loved listening to this album on the long bus ride on […]

todaySeptember 22, 2023 5

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Vicki Gordon On Blazing Trails With The Australian Women In Music Awards: ‘Let’s Not Fool Ourselves Into Thinking The Job Is Done!’ | theMusic.com.au

The 2023 Australian Women In Music Awards (AWMAs) are fast approaching – returning to its established home in Meanjin/Brisbane, this year’s edition will be held at the climax of a two-day conference and performance program on Tuesday September 26 and Wednesday 27. At the heart of the AWMAs is its founder, executive producer and program director, Vicki Gordon. As she explains in her own words, the momentous event was launched […]

todaySeptember 17, 2023 3

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