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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
Find yourself welcomed at the iconic St John’s Anglican Church. Built in 1856 from local bluestone quarried within the church grounds, St John’s has held continuous worship ever since. Join us for the local parish’s early morning worship which will include a featured performance from Festival artists.
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Carnival of the Animals
Reardon Theatre 35 Bank St, Port Fairy
Starring Deon Cameron Discover an unforgettable world of music and imagination with Carnival of the Animals. Music, mischief, and theatrical sparkle combine in this brand new production of Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic musical masterpiece for children, featuring lions, hens, roosters, wild donkeys, tortoises, elephants, kangaroos, an aquarium, an aviary, a cuckoo,…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Glass Alchemy
Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy
McIntyre in recital Amidst the seemingly unending city skyline of music written in the second half of the twentieth century, Ligeti and Glass stand tall as two monoliths, leaving their indelible imprint on the surrounding musical architecture, pointing to a sky of infinite possibilities, forever influencing the sounds of the…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: String Masterclass with Camille Barry
The Star Of The West Hotel, Port Fairy 76 Sackville Street, Port Fairy
Come along and watch Festival artists present masterclasses throughout the weekend. South West Victorian music students are invited to sign up for this opportunity to work closely with renowned musicians in a relaxed and friendly setting. Festival Friends and visitors welcome. Presented with the generous support of Moyne Shire, and…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Hallelujah Junction
Reardon Theatre 35 Bank St, Port Fairy
Pianists collide Fearless pianistic daredevils Raineri and Cassomenos embark on a supercharged two-piano trajectory of explosive fusion. Musical fragments are hurled back and forth like subatomic particles through plasma in Adams’ Hallelujah Junction; Rachmaninov ’s second suite then strides in Alla Marcia with regimented precision, giving way to the breathtaking…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Digital Echoes
The Star Of The West Hotel, Port Fairy 76 Sackville Street, Port Fairy
Viola and percussion traverse cyberspace Pioneering visionaries Aaron Wyatt and Speak Percussion unveil an immersion in transformed sounds, messages and meanings, displaced by time and space. Melodic viola fragments are transmitted to five locations around Australia, then beamed back to the concert where they resonate percussion instruments, blending into the…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Woodwind Masterclass with Sally Walker
Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy
Come along and watch Festival artists present masterclasses throughout the weekend. South West Victorian music students are invited to sign up for this opportunity to work closely with renowned musicians in a relaxed and friendly setting. Festival Friends and visitors welcome. Presented with the generous support of Moyne Shire, and…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Food, Glorious Food
The Star Of The West Hotel, Port Fairy 76 Sackville Street, Port Fairy
A feast for the ears Sit back and relax for this luscious luncheon of iconic and beloved show tunes from the Golden Years of Hollywood. Discovered by our Festival Co-Artistic Directors in the spectacular 2019 Holiday Actors and Warrnambool Theatre Company production of Les Misérables, Demby McKenzie is a Musical…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: The God We Made
Blarney Books & Art 37 James St,, Port Fairy
Goldsworthy & Curro in conversation Join award-winning pianist, writer and festival director Anna Goldsworthy in a lunchtime conversation with violinist and Festival Co-Artistic Director Monica Curro, celebrating Anna’s many musical, intellectual and directorial achievements — taking a deep dive into her June Quarterly Essay 102 The God We Made: The…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Full Flight
St John's Church 21 Regent Street, Port Fairy
The birds and the Beethoven Inspired by Henry Kendall’s 1869 poem Bell Birds, Emma Jayakumar’s atmospheric work conjures sounds and feelings of the Australian bush, containing compositional elements that mimic songs of Bell Birds, Golden Whip Birds, Djidi Djidi or Willy Wagtails, Currawongs and Bar Shouldered Doves. The Darlingtons spread…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Bijou Baroque
Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy
Madame de Pompadour’s intimate parlour Ensemble Pompadour invite you into their Parisian salon as they explore charming but little-heard repertoire, once played in private apartments on the most fashionable instruments of their day — the viola da gamba, theorbo, and the baroque musette, a tiny, bijou bagpipe made for playing…
Good Company Entertainment: The Big Chillout
Saraton Theatre, Grafton 99 Prince St,, Grafton
Get ready to relive the music that defined a generation in The Big Chillout, a joyous, soul-stirring celebration of the legendary Big Chill soundtrack and the Motown revival it sparked. This powerful live show brings to life the timeless classics of Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin,…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Closing Gala: Synergetic
Reardon Theatre 35 Bank St, Port Fairy
Our 2026 Closing Gala strikes at the glowing core of what causes our human nature to gravitate to the superhuman. From the birth of the expression of our shared humanity – in the Baroque worlds of Jean-Féry Rebel & Jean-Philippe Rameau, and in the awe-inspiring expression of millennia of culture…
Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ
Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane
Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…
Brisbane Festival: Bright Nights By ANZ
Verso Projects. Festival Village, Southbank Cultural Forecourt and Village GreenSuburb: South Bank, Brisbane
Featuring an exclusive soundtrack from Brisbane music royalty The Veronicas. Bright Nights by ANZ transforms the Brisbane River into a dazzling, choreographed canvas of water, light, and sound. Floating fountains, waterscreens, amazing animated water features and water jets shooting up to 80 meters high, all pierced by a stunning laser…
Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
QPAC - Playhouse
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is finally coming to QPAC! Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will…
Church Street Studios: Keyna Wilkins and Kaylie Dunstan w/ Elsen Price
Church Street Studios, Camperdown 62-68 Church St,, Camperdown
The Kaylie Dunstan and Keyna Wilkins Duo is a dynamic Australian contemporary classical partnership that bridges virtuosic percussion and multi-instrumental composition and improvisation. Both highly accomplished musicians in Sydney's art music scene, they combine extensive classical training with a passion for structured improvisation and genre-blurring performances. The duo’s signature sound…
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Kauboj
The Motley Bauhaus - Cabaret Stage, 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne 118 Elgin St, Carlton, Melbourne
From the Wild West of Dalmatia to the high-stakes kitchens of Sydney, Kauboj is a riotous and heartfelt musical journey through the life of Jakov—a chef-slash-cowboy whose adventures are as unpredictable as a misbehaving mechanical bull. With original music woven from Balkan folk melodies with the charming twang of country…
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