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January
19 – 28th Jan Tamworth Country Music Festival
26 – 29th Jan Lexton Victoria Rainbow Serpent Festival
28th January St Jerome Laneway Festival
February
4th Feb 2017 Let Go Fest Mornington Racecourse Victoria
March
10 -12 March 2018 Labour Day Babylon Festival St Arnaud in the Grampians
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
24 – 27th August Gympie Muster
September
1 -3 Sept Springfest – on the winter moon site in Mackay Cameron’s Pocket
First Weekend in September Birdsville Races
15 – 24 Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
16 – 18 Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest
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
October
1st Oct The Sporting Fields Victoria Park Brisbane Gilchrist Av Herston 1-11pm JJJ Listen Out
14 -15 Oct 2017 Buskers by the Creek Currumbin
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
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 – 3rd Dec Broadmeadow Riverwood Downs Newcastle Subsonic $180 p/p
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
Stereosonic Brisbane
