January
19 – 28th Jan 2018 Tamworth Country Music Festival
26 – 29th Jan 2018 Lexton Victoria Rainbow Serpent Festival
10 Feb Melb St Jerome Laneway Festival
February
4th Feb 2017 Let Go Fest Mornington Racecourse Victoria Website not
23 25 Feb 2018 Babylon Festival St Arnaud in the Grampians
24th Feb 2018 Silverton Sunsets Music Festival featuring Catherine Britt, Sunny Cowgirls, John Williamson and Adam Harvey – just outside of Broken Hill if you were wondering!
March
11 -13 2017 Golden Plains Festival – Victoria
14 – 15 2018 Quicksilver and Roxy Pros
10 -13 March, 2017 Pitchfest Mafeking Victoria Grampians
13 – 16 Mar Bleach Festival
29 Mar – 2nd Apr Bluesfest
30 Mar – Field of Lights – Urluru – a light installation at Uluru experiences include dinner in a field of light, camel ride to the site, helicopter over site, sunrise experience. Tours start from $39 per person – transfers and walk the exhibition to $600 approx for a night helicopter ride over the installation.
April
TBA 2018 usually last weekend in April The Planting – Woodfordia
14th – 17th April The Town Melbourne Strathbogie Ranges 25 km out of Melbourne
28 – 30th April, 2017 Wide Open Spaces Ross River, Central Australia
May
Long weekend in May Cameron’s Pocket Mackay Wintermoon
4 -6th May 2018 Surfers Paradise Live including Gold Coast Music Awards
17 – 20, 2018 Blues on Broadbeach
27th May Big Pineapple Nambour
Groovin the Moo All states
26th May – June 4th International Jazz Fest Brisbane
June
June Long Weekend – Cooly Rocks On Festival
3-4 June Happy Daze Festival electric, eclectic, electronic and live music festival. Mushroom Valley Airlie Beach and Mackay in the Cathu State Forest
9th June – Luminous Southbank – Lantern Parade as a welcoming event for new Queenslanders in line with Queens Birthday weekend and OAM awards
First Weekend in June – Palm Creek
July
5-10 2017 Modifyre $160 no free passes as everyone pays even organisers
4 – 6 July Big Red Bash – Birdsville
6 – 9 Bello Winter Music Festival
21 – 23 July Splendour in the Grass
28 – 30 July 2017 Broadbeach Country Music Festival
August
20 – 21 Aug 2017 Broadbeach Jazz oops cancelled
25,26,27 August Indie Folk Festival – Tyalgum Northern NSW
24 – 27th August Gympie Muster
September
1 -3 Sept Springfest – on the winter moon site in Mackay Cameron’s Pocket
5 – 8 Sept Big Sound – Festival and conference with workshops and a chance to get inside the Australian music industry. Fortitude Valley
First Weekend in September Birdsville Races
15 – 24 Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
15 – 18 Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest Kandanga – Noosa Hinterland
22 – 24 Sept Folk by the Sea Kiama – world, folk, Celtic, bluegrass and gypsy
23 – 24 Sept Oz Comic-Con Brisbane
27th – 2nd Oct Deeper Space Red Earth City Matong State Forest NSW – Burning Seed
22 Sept – 1 Oct Parrtjima Festival of Light Alice Springs
24 Sept Global Rhythms – Glebe $40
29 Sept – 2 Oct Caloundra Music Festival – gaining momentum as a great beachside festival
29 Sept – 30 Sept Denni Ute Muster
29 Sep – 2 Oct Semaphore Music Festival Adelaide
October
29 Sep – 8 Oct Mildura Country Music Festival
1st Oct The Sporting Fields Victoria Park Brisbane Gilchrist Av Herston 1-11pm JJJ Listen Out
6 – 8 Oct Nanga Music Festival – where the music meets nature – Mandurah, Perth WA
14 Oct Out on the Weekend Williamstown
14 Oct Red Deer Festival Mt Samson 35km north of Brisbane
13 – 15 Oct Foggy Mountain Bluegrass Festival – Kinglake Victoria
13 – 15 Oct Akoostik Wingham NSW – great lineup
14 -15 Oct 2017 Buskers by the Creek Currumbin
20 – 22 Oct Marysville Jazz and Blues Festival – Yarra Valley – Russell Morris, Lloyd Spiegel and Geoff Achison – cool. 90 minutes from Melbourne
20 -22 Oct 2017 Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival
27 -29 Oct 2017 Tablelands Folk Festival – Yungaburra 65 minutes from Cairns
27-29th Oct 2017 Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival $145 p/p including camping (Sat Sun)
November
3 -5th November 2017 Wangarratta Festival of Jazz and Blues
7th Nov 2017 6th Nov 2018 Melbourne Cup
17 – 25th Nov 2017 Melbourne Music Week
3-6 Nov 2017Dragon Dreaming Wee Jasper NSW $200 per person Yass
3 -5 Nov 2017 Return to Rio Wiseman’s Ferry Resort
10 – 12 Nov 2017 SupaNova Brisbane
18 Nov 2017 Norah Head Lighthouse Folk Festival – Central Coast
16 – 19th 2017 Mullum Music Festival
17th – 19th Nov 2017 Strawberry Fields – Murray River music art and installations festival
24 -26 Nov 2017 Queenscliff Music Festival
25th Nov 2017 Earthcore Scheyvelle National Park NSW
23 -27 Nov 2017 Earthcore Pyalong Victoria
December
2nd Earthcore Qld – no venue
1 – 3 Dec Sydney Blues & Roots Festival – Windsor Sydney
1 – 3rd Dec Broadmeadow Riverwood Downs Newcastle Subsonic $180 p/p
7-10 Dec, 2017 Festival of the Sun Port Macquarie
8 -10 Dec 2017 Meredith – tickets available by ballot only must be a subscriber
27th Dec – Ist Jan Lost Paradise Glenworth Valley NSW
29 – 31 Dec The Falls Festival Marion Bay Tasmania
1 Jan – Field Day – The Domain Sydney
Others
Sugar Mountain Festival Melbourme
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