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Any music festival that occurs in Australia. Also includes touring festivals such as Big Day Out. This type has no properties, but is mostly intended to be used as a flag for festivals which are of particular interest to the Save Australian Music project.
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| x Big Day Out |
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The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994....
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| x WOMADelaide |
WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival, which was first held in 1992 in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the WOMAD series of music festivals. WOMAD events are a showcase of different sorts of music, arts and dance....
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| x Port Fairy Folk Festival |
The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a popular annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia.
Traditionally staged during the local Labour Day long weekend (the first Friday each March), the...
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| x Woodford Folk Festival |
The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual music festival held near the semi-rural town of Woodford, 72 km north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the biggest annual cultural events of its type in Australia.
The festival takes place over...
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| x Stereosonic |
Stereosonic is an annual music festival held in Australia in early December. Stereosonic is held in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne. Stereosonic is a collaboration of two major Australia promoters, Hardware and Onelove corporations,...
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| x Earthcore |
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Earthcore was an Australian outdoor dance music festival and electronic music events organisation. The outdoor events were generally held in forest environments around Victoria, Australia, with some events held in Queensland, Australia and overseas...
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| x Alternative Nation festival |
Alternative Nation was a series of music festivals held in Australia in 1995. It was organised by a consortium of concert promoters, Michael Coppell, Michael Chugg and Michael Gudinski and backed by the Triple M radio network as an alternative to...
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| x Aquarius Festival |
The Aquarius Festival was a counter-cultural arts and music festival organised by the Australian Union of Students and sponsored by Peter Stuyvesant and held at Nimbin. The first NUAUS festival was held in Sydney ca 1966, while the second, Melbourne...
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| x CoastFest |
CoastFest is a three day music event held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia at The Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreation Camp Gwandalan on beautiful Lake Maquarie. Featuring some of Australia's finest Blues & Roots, World, Folk...
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| x Australian Festival of Chamber Music |
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) is a ten-day international festival focused on chamber music but also featuring tours of regional and remote Australia, fine food, master classes for musicians and lecture series by international...
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| x Australian Gospel Music Festival |
Easterfest (previously known as the Australian Gospel Music Festival) is a three-day music festival held in Toowoomba, Australia.
The first festival was held in 1999, with a mixture of successful and unsuccessful events. In 2001, the festival re...
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| x The Basin Music Festival |
The Basin Music Festival is held in March each year in the small fringe suburb/village of The Basin at the foot of Mount Dandenong, on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne, Australia.
Growing out of the music found in the community, the festival...
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| x Canberra Country Music Festival |
Canberra Country Music FestivalThe Canberra Country Music Festival is a 3-day event held during November with a focus on all sub-genres of country music, dance and workshops. The event was first held in 2009 at the Tuggeranong Homestead in southern...
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| x Come Together Music Festival |
Come Together is an all-ages Australian music festival performed at Luna Park Sydney. Beginning in 2005, it was originally two separate events, one in April and one in September. In 2006, a two-day festival was held in June (on the Queen's Birthday...
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| x Corinbank Festival |
The Corinbank Festival is an annual music festival held in Canberra in Australia on the last weekend of February. It takes place over 3 days with music, theatre, art, burlesque, creative campsites, hiking and other family friendly activities and...
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| x Darwin International Guitar Festival |
The Darwin International Guitar Festival is held once every two years at the Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The festival attracts many Australian guitarists including Karin Schaupp, Saffire, and Slava Grigoryan....
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| x Distorted Music Festival |
The Distorted Music Festival was an electronic music festival held in Melbourne, Australia in 2005.
It was the first festival of its kind in Australia, showcasing electronic artists who are not generally considered to be mainstream. It covered the...
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| x Dusty Days |
Dusty Days is a music festival held in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
Dusty Days Music Festival was held on Saturday the 15th of March 2008 relocated from the Wagga Wagga Showground to the Music Bowl which is located in the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens...
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| x East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival |
The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, also known as Byron Bay Bluesfest, is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It features a large selection of...
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| x Festival of the Sun |
Festival of the Sun (FOTSUN) is an annual outdoor music festival held in December at the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park[1], Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It was first held in 2001 and first ticketed in 2005.[2]
A celebration of the...
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| x Fairbridge Festival |
The Fairbridge Festival is a music festival held annually since 1993 at Fairbirdge village near Pinjarra in Western Australia. The festival is usually held over a weekend near Easter.
The Festival was established by Max Klubal and Sally Grice, who...
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| x Falls Festival |
The Falls Music & Arts Festival, commonly abbreviated to just Falls, is a New Year's Eve music festival held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia. Best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre,...
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| x Golden Plains Festival |
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The Golden Plains Festival is held over three days during the Victorian Labour Day long-weekend on private farmland in Victoria, Australia. The nearest rural town is Meredith, which is between the regional cities of Geelong and Ballarat. The closest...
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| x Gone South |
Gone South was a music festival in Tasmania, Australia. It has been held in both Launceston and Hobart at various times. It has been promoted by local Hobart businessman Charles Touber, and more recently in conjunction with Karen Henderson.
The...
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| x Gympie Muster |
The Gympie Music Muster is an Australian country music festival held in Gympie, Queensland. It was started as a community fundraiser in 1982 and has grown to a six-day festival attracting musicians from Australia and elsewhere. The 2011 Gympie...
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| x Homebake |
Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). The festival was first held on 4 January 1996 at Belongil Fields in Byron Bay, on the far north coast of New South...
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| x Live at the Zoo |
Live at the Zoo is a music festival held over the Easter long weekend at Monarto South Australia that started in 2008. It lasted from 10 to 13 April and was the first multiple day music/camping festival in South Australia. The event consisted of 4...
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| x Livid |
Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival held annually from 1989 to 2003. Masterminded by Peter Walsh and Natalie Jeremijenko, the original idea of showcasing both the arts (Natalie) and music (Peter) in the one event was standardised...
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| x Melbourne Jazz Festival |
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival held in Melbourne, Australia. The 2012 festival is being held 1-10 June.
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival was first held in 1998.
Albert Dadon assumed the position...
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| x Meredith Music Festival |
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The Meredith Music Festival (otherwise known simply as Meredith or MMF) is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in...
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| x Metal for the Brain |
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Metal for the Brain was Australia's largest heavy metal music festival. The event was held in Canberra annually, usually towards the end of the year, and featured Australian bands almost exclusively. The festival was established as a charity event...
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| x Mildura Country Music Festival |
The Mildura Country Music Festival is an annual Australian country music festival based in Mildura, Victoria. In 2005 it was sponsored by Telstra Countrywide. It focuses on independent country music artists (about 95 percent of performers in the...
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MS Fest was a music festival, held annually in Launceston, Tasmania Australia since 2006 until 2011 when it was announced that MS Fest 2012 will be held in Hobart, Tasmania. It was a single day event, held in February or March on a Saturday.
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| x National Folk Festival |
The National Folk Festival - Australia’s premier folk festival event – is a colourful and diverse family orientated celebration attended by over 50,000 people.
Winner of the National Qantas Australian Tourism Award for Best Festival in 2009, it...
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| x Nannup Music Festival |
The Nannup Music Festival (formerly the Southwest Folk Festival) is a live performance music festival showcasing primarily folk music, but also other styles. The festival is held in the town of Nannup, Western Australia over the Labour Day long...
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| x Narara Music Festival |
The Narara Music Festival was an outdoor music festival held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1983 and 1984. Despite the name, it was actually held at Somersby, a short distance from Narara.
For the first year, the concert ran...
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| x Newcastle music week |
Newcastle Music Week (NMW) began as a one day Music Expo held in Newcastle, New South Wales in 2002. The Expo was organised and run by Music Business Students at TAFE NSW – Hunter Institute. It attracted over 1,000 participants, including schools,...
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| x No Sleep Til Festival |
The No Sleep Til Festival was a music festival that was held across Australia and New Zealand in December 2010. The Festival was headlined by Megadeth, who played their album Rust in Peace in its entirety. Other bands included were NOFX, Dropkick...
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| x Offshore Festival |
The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia in the late 1990s, 2000 and 2001. It was run by the same organisers as the Falls Festival, held at nearby Lorne...
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| x Parklife Festival |
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Parklife festival, is a national outdoor music festival held every year in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Melbourne Australia, it is a one day music festival based on the dance genre. Local musical talent is showcased, as well as...
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| x Peats Ridge Festival |
Peats Ridge Festival is a sustainable arts and music festival, held in Glenworth Valley, Peats Ridge, 1 hour north of Sydney and 90mins drive from Newcastle, New South Wales. Established in 2004, one year after the passing of the founder of the...
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| x Playground Weekender Festival |
'Playground Weekender' is an annual boutique music and camping festival held in February near Wisemans Ferry, approximately 60 kilometres northwest of Sydney, Australia. Often cited as a uniquely Australian music festival, it has emerged as an...
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| x Pyramid Rock Festival |
The Pyramid Rock Festival is a New Year's Eve camp-out rock music festival at Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
Beginning in 2004, it runs over two nights with two stages - the Main Stage, and the Pharaoh's Annex. As its name...
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| x Rainbow Serpent Festival |
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The Rainbow Serpent Festival is a large electronic music, art and lifestyle festival, located in Victoria, Australia. The festival is mainly known for Psychedelic trance and Minimal Techno music, but also features other genres of electronic music...
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| x Raggamuffin Music Festival |
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Raggamuffin Music Festival (Raggamuffin) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which concluded its first tour in 2008. As of 2010, it has featured fourteen Major international reggae Acts and thirteen Australasian Acts...
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| x Rock-It |
Rock-It is an Australian music festival held at the Arena Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The festival was first held in 1999, and mainly features modern rock music. Along with the nationally-touring Big Day Out, Rock...
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| x Sonfest |
Sonfest was an annual 3–4 day Christian music festival held in Boonah, Queensland, Queensland, Australia from 2000 to 2005.
The event was created by record executive Dale Bray and creative director Steven Dix. Sonfest is also the name of an annual...
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| x Soundwave festival |
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Soundwave is an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia. The festival originated in Perth, Western Australia and began travelling to the other Australian capital cities in 2007. It features a number of international and...
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| x Southbound |
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Southbound is an arts, camping and music festival. A variety of Australian and international artists perform at this event. The festival occurs annually, early January, at the Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Western Australia.
Southbound began...
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| x Southern Roots Festival |
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Southern Roots was an annual music festival in Australia, held in Hobart, Tasmania. Similar to the Big Day Out, it is common that the well-known headlining acts will play on the outdoor "Main Stage" which overlooks the venue, and the lesser known ...
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| x Splendour in the Grass |
Splendour in the Grass is an annual Australian music festival held in July at Belongil Fields, outside Byron Bay. In 2010 and 2011, the festival was held in Woodford, Queensland due to restrictions at the Byron Bay location, but will return to its...
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| x St Jerome's Laneway Festival |
Known simply as the Laneway or St. Jerome's Festival, the music festival began in Caledonian Lane in Melbourne in 2004. Emerging as an indie music event, the Laneway Festival has grown rapidly in popularity, receiving favourable reviews in music...
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| x Stompem Ground |
Stompen Ground Festival is a contemporary and traditional music, dance, art exhibitions and ancestral storytelling festival in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Stompend is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned, designed...
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| x Stonefest |
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Stonefest, once called Stone Day, is a large music festival, held at the University of Canberra annually at the end of October. For many years Stonefest was the largest music festival in Canberra and a popular one in Australia. In recent years other...
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| x Summadayze |
Summadayze is an annual Australian music festival held in the month of January.
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