Music

A musical revolution… 

Sometimes a musical revolution can explode from the most unlikely of places, as ARIA Hall of Fame inductees Yothu Yindi have proven time and time again. 

Thelma Plum is a 24-year-old Gamilaraay woman, musician and creator.

Holy Holy announces Hello My Beautiful World. The fourth studio album from Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson, landed in August via Wonderlick Recordings.

Hailing from the Eastern Highlands and New Ireland provinces of Papua New Guinea, though now Sydney Australia-based, Ngaiire’s sound melds electronic neo-soul, gospel, and big pop sounds, strained through the lens of a First Nations Papua New Guinean songwriter.

With his live performance videos amassing over half a billion combined plays, Tom Thum’s pedigree in the world of beat boxing is unrivalled.

Australian sisters Abbey and Mia Toole have played music with their cousin Jaymi since they were just kids.

“Essentially we are a dirty beatnik rock n’roll band who play jazz and soul music”
Darcy McNulty- Jazz Party.

Inspired by the infectious afro-beat music of Nigeria and its neighbours, The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra delivers contemporary African funk to Australian dancefloors.

Boil Up are a ten piece band based in Hobart.  A melting pot of contemporary Australia, their roots stretch from the traditional owners of Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, to as far away as Ireland, England and Madagascar.

FFLORA
(FLUID FEMME LUMINARIES OFFERING RHAPSODIC ASCENSION).

Hailing from a small town with a big clock called Ulverstone, Lasca learned young to idolise epic guitar legends. Introduced to Zeppelin by her brother, she attained a moment of truth and could never go back.

Up and coming independent artists, Elysaé, is a Central Coast based singer/songwriter with a passion for storytelling and expression of the human experience through music.

From a small town in Western Australia to the glory of the World stage, Formidable Vegetable is sowing the garden of our minds with the seeds of change to ‘turnip the beets’ for people and planet.

A proud Yorta-Yorta and Kalkadoon woman, Miss Kaninna was born and raised in lutruwita/Tasmania.

Sons Of Zöku are an Adelaide-based hybrid tribe of Portuguese-born Ricardo Da Silva and Ica Quintela, and Australian-born Jordan Buck, Oscar Ellery, Eddie Hannemann, and Hannah Yates. 

Hold onto your hats as Ungus Ungus Ungus, Australia’s premier peddlers of vaudevillian psychedelia, strap you in for a  rollercoaster ride of dance and mayhem. This is carnivalesque party music for the creatively inclined, traversing  territory from global dance beats to swing, jazz and hip-hop.

Teresa Dixon & The Deep Blue Sea play gritty, alt-country folk songs of love, loss and hope.

Xixa is pronounced Chi-cha after the amazonian style of Cumbia that is commonly known to
come from Peru, chicha. This somewhat psychedelic style of Cumbia was a way for traditional
Andean music to remain current with younger audiences. This style is loose, fun and very

Reeba von Diamond loves to party. Her band of fabulous Jazz players make hot tunes with old favourites - niche and kitsch jazz, blues and swing tunes with a tongue in your cheek.

Zydeco is the lively, accordion and washboard led, rhythm and blues infused music of Creoles of Louisiana. Here it's in the hands of Tasmanians who put their own country and gypsy jazz twist to it. Prepare for some down south, down home fun

Vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentalist and looping beatboxing songwriter Mal sings his brain provoking songs using all sorts of vocal techniques, guitar, mbira, slide trumpet, trombone, chromatic harmonica and a loop recording pedal called Derek.

Yacuruna, named after the Mythical water spirit of the Amazon, explores the old and new sounds of Latino America. From mellow Mexican boleros to the dance beats of Cumbias, Brazilian rhythms and Central American flavours.