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Encyclopedia > List of Australian music festivals

Music of Australia
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Genres classical · hip-hop · indigenous Australian music · Ska · immigrant music · jazz · country · rock (pub rock · indie · punk · metal)
Organisations ARIA · APRA
Awards ARIA Music Awards · Country Music Awards of Australia · The Deadlys · Australian Music Prize · J Award · WAMi Awards · NT Indigenous Music Awards · Perth Dance Music Awards
Charts Kent Music Report · ARIA Charts · Triple J Hottest 100
Festivals Big Day Out · Livid · Homebake · Falls · Tamworth Country Music Festival · Womadelaide · National Folk Festival · Overcranked
Media Countdown · Rage · Triple J · ABC · Community Radio
National anthem Advance Australia Fair
Cities and regions
Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Melbourne · Sydney · Perth · Hobart

This is a list of music festivals in Australia. It includes festivals that have stopped running. Australian music is the music originating from the country of Australia. ... The trends of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. ... Subcategories There are 3 subcategories to this category. ... Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s, primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States of America. ... Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates a wide variety of distinctive traditional music styles practised by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles both derivative of and fusion with European... The speedy deletion of this page is contested. ... Australia is home to several large immigrant communities, including the Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos and others. ... Jazz is an American musical genre largely originated by African Americans but the style was rapidly and enthusiastically taken up by musicians all over the world, including Australia. ... Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today. ... Australian indie rock is part of the overall flow of Australian rock history but has a distinct history somewhat separate from mainstream rock in Australia, largely from the end of the punk rock era onwards. ... Australian musicians played and recorded some of the earliest punk rock. ... Australian heavy metal music has its roots in the both the Australian hard rock and pub rock tradition of the 1970s and the American and British heavy metal scenes. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ... The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collecting society representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ... The Country Music Association of Australia awards (commonly known as the golden guitar Music Awards or CMAA Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia that celebrates the Australian country music industry. ... The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The J Award logo. ... WAM Logo The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM). ... NT Indigenous Music Awards are part of the Darwin Festival and are run by Music NT in association with the Northern Territory Government’s Indigenous Arts Development Unit. ... This article refers to an Australian award show. ... Kent Music Report front cover 11 October 1976 The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by a music enthusiast, David Kent from the early 1970s through to 1998. ... The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ... The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which originated in Sydney in 1992. ... Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival, which was held annually from 1989 to 2003. ... Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ... The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ... The largest recorded congregation of aboriginal australians apart from yothu yindi concerts and the tamworth pcyc weekly pool competition. ... First held in 1992, WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival held in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Womad series of music festivals. ... The National Folk Festival is a festival celebrating Australian folk culture, first held in Melbourne in 1967. ... Overcranked is Australias biggest punk, rock and metal music festival. ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ... Rage is an all-night Australian music video program that is broadcast on ABC TV on Friday and Saturday nights. ... Double J redirects here. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogising the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognised either by a countrys government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ... The National Anthem booth at the 2005 Floriade, Canberra - on the J. Verbeeck fairground organ. ... Adelaide is a city in South Australia. ... Queensland Conservatorium of Music Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues. ... Canberra is the capital city of Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... the Sydney Opera House can be seen on the far left Sydney is a city in Australia, and a major center center for music. ... Perth is a city in Western Australia, known for having produced a number of very famous performers. ... Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ... A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. ...

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Alternative Nation was a series of music festivals held in Australia in 1995. ... The Aquarius Festival was a music and cultural festival organised by the Australian Union of Students and held in Nimbin, New South Wales in 1973. ... The Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) is a highly regarded and successful ten day international festival focused on Chamber Music but also featuring tours of regional and remote Australia, fine food, Master classes for musicians and lecture series by international scientists themed on the Great Barrier Reef. ... AGMF 06. ... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which originated in Sydney in 1992. ... The current version of the article or section reads more like an advertisement than an encyclopedic article. ... Come Together is an Australian music festival which has been held three times at Luna Park, Sydney. ... Held every two years to start with, then as it got bigger and bigger, it changed to once every three years. ... Logo of the Distorted Music Festival The Distorted Music Festival is a yearly electronic music festival held in Melbourne, Australia. ... Earthcore is Australias largest and longest running outdoor dance music festival and electronic music events organisation. ... The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. ...

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Broadford Rock Concert The Fairbridge Festival is a music festival held annually since 1993 at Fairbridge Village near Pinjarra in Western Australia. ... The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ... Gone South is a music festival in Tasmania, Australia. ... The Great Escape is music festival held over Easter at Newington Armory, located within Sydney Olympic Park since 2006. ... Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ... The Australian InterVarsity Choral Festival (IVCF) is an annual event in which members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia and the national capital Canberra meet for two weeks to rehearse, socialise and perform typically two combined concerts. ... Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival, which was held annually from 1989 to 2003. ...


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The Meredith Music Festival is held over three days every December on private farmland in Victoria, Australia. ... This is a list of Meredith Music Festival lineups by year: 1991: Boxing Tostadas, Dead Salesmen, Kill Sarah, Flamenco Sketches, The Celts, Picks 1992: Guttersnipes, Warner Bros, Kill Sarah, Ripe, Boxing Tostadas, Powdermonkeys, Rod, Dead Salesmen, Kipling Ensemble, Picko, Hoss, The Naked Kings Servant, The Maviss, Nolte Grips... Metal for the Brain is Australias largest heavy metal music festival. ... The Mildura Country Music Festival is an annual Australian country music festival based in Mildura, Victoria. ... The Nannup Music Festival (formerly the Southwest Folk Festival) is a live performance music festival showcasing primarily folk music, but also other styles. ... The Narara Music Festival was an outdoor music festival held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1983 and 1984. ... The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia in the late 1990s, 2000 and 2001. ...

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Planetshakers was originally a Christian conference that began in South Australia and founded by Russell Evans at Paradise Community Church. ... Port Fairy is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Princes Highway, 28 kilometres west of the Warrnambool, 290 kilometres west of Melbourne. ... The Pyramid Rock Festival is a New Years Eve camp-out rock music festival at Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. ... Large Electronic music art and lifestyle festival, located in Victoria, Australia Primarily psychedelic trance music but other genres of electronic music (and occasionally the other type) played in the smaller stages, as well as workshops etc. ... A promotion poster for Rock-It 2005 Rock-It is an Australian music festival usually held twice every year at the Arena in Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Southbound is an arts, camping and music festival. ... Southern Roots is an Australian music festival to be held on 7 April 2007 (the Easter weekend) at the Royal Hobart Showgrounds in Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania. ... For the 1961 film, see Splendor in the Grass. ... Stompen Ground Festival in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned, designed and managed arts and cultural festival. ... Summersault was a music festival put on by promoter Steve Pavlovic that toured Australia in the summer of 1995/1996. ... The crowd watches a band at the 1972 festival. ... For the album, see Taste of Chaos (album). ... The largest recorded congregation of aboriginal australians apart from yothu yindi concerts and the tamworth pcyc weekly pool competition. ...

V-Z

The Australian V Festival is an Australian music festival, and a spin-off of the British V Festival. ... Village Fair (VF) is an annual music festival located in Bathurst, Australia which first started as a community Festival for students from rival dormitories of Charles Sturt University, Bathurst campus, in 1974. ... The Wandong Country Music Festival is an annual country music festival held in Wandong, Victoria, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia). ... A promotion poster for West Coast Blues & Roots Festival 2005 A promotion poster for West Coast Blues & Roots Festival 2006 West Coast Blues & Roots Festival 2007 The West Coast Blues n Roots Festival is an annual music festival held in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. ... What Is Music is an experimental music festival held in Australia. ... The Woodford Folk Festival happens every year 75 km north of Brisbane between Boxing Day and New Years Day. ... First held in 1992, WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival held in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Womad series of music festivals. ...

See also

List of festivals in Australia, including any established festival or carnival in Australia. ...

External links

Internal links

Includes: WOMADelaide 2007...and 2006... Woodford Folk Festival 2006-7... Ballarat's Eureka 150 Echoes of Freedom Festival 2004...


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