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Brisbane band Bugs performing at the Princess Theatre.

‘Beautiful to see’: Brisbane bands unite to help bassist’s cancer fight

An all-day festival at the Tivoli will raise funds for a popular figure in the music scene.

  • Nick Dent

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Richard Tognetti

The day Richard Tognetti shouted back at an audience member

Audiences have come a long way since the violinist took up the top job at the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

  • Nick Galvin
In the Heights has arrived in Melbourne.

Before Hamilton there was In the Heights. Here’s why you can’t miss it

Smaller in scope but bigger in heart, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical made its debut on Broadway in 2008 before it was given the silver screen treatment in 2021.

  • Sonia Nair, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Kosa Monteith, Andrew Fuhrmann, Cameron Woodhead and Jessica Nicholas
Bret McKenzie at his home in Wellington, New Zealand.

Bret McKenzie’s new songs aren’t comedy, but ‘it’s in my DNA to be funny’

As half of Flight Of The Conchords and songwriter for The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants and more, Bret McKenzie has always been the funny guy. But now he’s getting serious … sort of.

  • Barry Divola
Artist Charles Brooks expected to sell just a handful of images – but over the past few years, his works have been reproduced around 20 million times.

These images have one thing in common. Can you guess what it is?

What began as a hobby is now a full-time career for Charles Brooks – and his work has been reproduced millions of times across the globe.

  • Michael Lallo
While much of Sydney has a very subdued start to 2022. Party people where not detred by Covid to attend the music festival, Field Day in Sydney's Domain. Attendes had to prove vacination, or get a Rapid antigen test for Covid, show proof of ID, be scanned by a metel detector for weapons and sniffer dogs, sat regualry by people who people ushered off for a more through search for illegal drugs, 1 January 2022.

‘How has that happened?’ Labor challenged over $1m funding to global music festival giant

The Greens are calling for $1 million paid out to the Listen Out and Field Day festivals be returned to taxpayers.

  • Linda Morris
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Kyle Stegall (Belmonte) and Cleo Lee-McGowan (Konstanze) in Abduction by Victorian Opera.

Mozart’s ‘Abduction’ gets a wildly modern makeover

Abduction by Victorian Opera is entirely rewritten for modern sensibilities, and its wit and self-parody clearly struck a chord with the audience.

  • Barney Zwartz, Tony Way, Marcus Teague and Andrew Fuhrmann
Ben Folds wrote several songs for Apple TV+’s Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical, the first new Peanuts musical in 35 years.

What if the song of the year is a Ben Folds ballad from a Snoopy musical?

Because it just might be.

  • Robert Moran

Mothballed Boomers dance away the years before Monday’s chill returns

Musicians’ penury is momentarily forgotten during a Sunday tribute show.

  • Anson Cameron
Paul Kelly has announced his new album, Seventy, anchored by lead single, Rita Wrote A Letter.

Paul Kelly releases How to Make Gravy follow-up after viral tease

Joe, Dan and Rita all return for the sequel song, which marks the first single off Paul Kelly’s newly announced album, Seventy.

  • Thomas Mitchell