Music News

Darwin Festival Unveils DF20 Homegrown Program

July 9, 2020

Darwin Festival returns as Australia’s hottest winter arts festival with DF20 Homegrown (Thursday 6 — Sunday 16 August). A reimagined event showcasing the Top [...]

Ben Evolent Launches ‘Wanderous’ At The Happy Yess

June 28, 2020

Happy Yess Sold Out | Support from Lilly Sideris & Emma Rowe Ben Evolent centre stage at the Happy Yess It was touching to see Darwin’s Happy Yess back up and on [...]

Golden Orb Release Trip-Hop Gem ‘Organism’

June 26, 2020

Sydney meets Alice Springs to Produce a Fantastic Fusion of Down-Tempo Electronica & Chill Ambience Australian trip-hop duo Golden Orb formed in Sydney’s Blue [...]

Ben Evolent Releases Debut Album ‘Wanderous’

June 24, 2020

In A Word – ‘Epic’ Darwin singer-songwriter Ben Evolent is a poet. That much is clear upon a listening to much of the music he has put out. Lyrics come [...]

Seabreeze Festival Is At The Forefront Of Digital Adaption In The Age Of COVID-19

April 25, 2020

Robbie Mills performing for Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival @ Home Necessity is the Mother of Invention – Seabreeze Leads the Way in Delivering Festival Performances on a [...]

National Indigenous Music Awards To Go Virtual Amid COVID-19 Crisis

April 10, 2020

Baker Boy The National Indigenous Music Awards are pleased to announce in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, that they will continue in 2020, reacting to a climate where [...]

An Important Message From Live Performance Australia On Music Industry Assistance

March 20, 2020

A link to LPA’s Emergency Industry package can be found [...]

Free Wet Season Local Artist Shows Live At The Darwin Entertainment Centre!

February 21, 2020

You asked for it, so the Darwin Entertainment Centre delivers with FIVE massive shows over 15 days of the Wet Season – may we introduce to you the DEC Wet Sessions for [...]

Fundraising For Foldback: Jean-Eddy Moutou Talks About The Benefits Of Foldback Magazine To The NT Live Music Scene

February 6, 2020

In this third instalment of Foldback Crew videos, our founder, Chair and Graphic Designer Jean-Eddy Moutou speaks about the benefits that Foldback Magazine brings to the NT [...]

Win A Trip For Two To Wide Open Space Festival 2020!

February 1, 2020

MEET YOUR BEST MATE IN THE MIDDLE OF AUSTRALIA THIS MAY! WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO WIDE OPEN SPACE FESTIVAL 2020. Following an impressive music announcement earlier this month, [...]

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may, 2021

9may1:00 pm8CCC SUNDAY SETSMontes Lounge - Alice Springs

9may3:00 pmSEASIDE SESSIONSDarwin Trailer Boat Club

9may5:00 pmRed SaltDinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association

9may5:00 pmWARD HANCOCK + RAMBUTAN JAM BANDMindil Beach Sunset Market

9may5:30 pmArafura Wind EnsembleDe la Plage

9may6:00 pmTim Freedman: Man About a Dog tour 2021Darwin Entertainment Centre

10may7:00 pmGITARRE CAFELucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

11may7:00 pmJump Inn Jammmm - WeeklyJump Inn - Alice Springs

11may8:30 pmSmoke and Oak Jam Sessions - WeeklySmoke and Oak Darwin

12may8:00 pmMax Fredericks One More Step Album LaunchDarwin Entertainment Centre

13may6:00 pmBootlegs at the Bat - Featuring Alice Cotton and Alison ThorsteinsenLucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

14may5:00 pmLive on FridaysBrowns Mart

14may5:00 pmLIVE ON THE ROOFTOP: ADRIAN THOMASEpilogue Lounge Alice Springs

14may6:00 pmAcoustic FridaysJump Inn - Alice Springs

14may6:30 pmThe Alice World Chamber Orchestra Journeying EuropeWitchetty's Artspace Alice Springs

14may7:00 pmThe Rubens - Alice Springs - 0202 Album TourGap View Hotel

Event Details

The Rubens are extremely excited to announce their biggest Australian tour to date – the LIVE IN LIFE tour

Presented by triple j, the 27-date run will see the five-piece play a combination of metro and regional venues from May through June in celebration of their infectious summer jam, ‘Live In Life’.

The past year has seen The Rubens travel to North America, UK & Europe for headline tours, perform and release their MTV Unplugged Live In Melbourne album, slay the main stage unveiling their collaboration with punk hip-hop star Vic Mensa at Splendour In The Grass AND between all of that, bunker down to write and focus on new music.

As part of their Chucka Bucka’s initiative, the Menangle Mad Men have also embarked on 3 regional tours in the past 18 months – and the Live In Life Tour is another tip of the hat to our music loving friends who may not live near a city – with the band revisiting some old regional favourites as well as some new towns they’ve never played before, including Bundaberg, Warrnambool, Shepparton and more.

2018 proved to be a landmark year for The Rubens, which saw the release of their third album LO LA RU, including hits ‘Never Ever feat. Sarah’ (2 x Platinum), ‘Million Man’ (Gold) and ‘God Forgot’, a mammoth headline tour across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Europe and supporting P!NK on her massive 42-date sell out arena tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Don’t miss your chance to see The Rubens live in 2020!

Joining The Rubens on the upcoming ‘Live In Life’ tour is Alice Ivy. The artist’s eclectic signature sound spans sample-influenced soul, hip-hop and electronic pop that she brings to life live as a multi-instrumentalist. With her second album set for release mid-2020 and a reputation for explosive live performances, Alice Ivy is fast becoming recognised as one of Australia’s most versatile and exhilarating artists.

Time

(Friday) 7:00 pm

Location

Gap View Hotel

123 Gap Rd Alice Springs

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14may7:00 pmPurple Patch - NhulunbuyThe Cat Shed Nhulunbuy

14may7:00 pmDARYL ABERHART at The RailsDarwin Railway Club

14may8:30 pmNT Songwriter Spotlight Series - Kathryn Ezzy, David Garnham, Lilly SiderisHappy Yess

15may1:00 pmPeople's Choice BassinthegrassMindil Beach

15may5:00 pmJazz by the Sea. Daryl AberhartDarwin Ski Club

Event Details

Daryl is well known in the Australian jazz and blues community as a highly talented vocalist,
pianist, composer and lyricist. He has played at many jazz and blues festivals over the past two decades, including Thredbo, Manly International, Bellingen, Dubbo, Jazz In The Vines and the
Newcastle Jazz Festival, both in his own right and as a sideman with other groups and acts such
as blues guitarist Ray Beadle. He will be accompanied by the NT’s foremost Guitarist Francis Diachenko and Drumming Legend Mr Allen Murphy.

The only person ever given the permission and honour to write and record an album of lyrics written to the tunes of American jazz guitarist and composer John Scofield (The Cat Within 2007), Daryl has also recorded a funky, soulfully jazzified album of classic Australian radio songs (Aussie Gold Vol 1-2010), as well as a live EP of original works that same year.
Daryl also recorded an experimental free-jazz record with drummer Tim Geldens and bassist Thomas Wade in 2019 (I Don’t Get Out Much).
After something of a creative and performing hiatus, owing predominantly to his increasing duties
as a tertiary educator with the School of Creative Industries at Newcastle University in NSW over the past 10 years, Daryl is well and truly back in 2021 with a cracking collection of fresh songs spread over two albums.
This first recording, due for release in March 2021, Shake These Blues Away, artfully blends many of Daryls favourite influences into a tasty mash- up of soul, country, jazz, blues, gospel, r+b and pop. One minute it’s a little like Nat King Cole, then some straight up Little Richard, next you
are feeling some funky 70’s groove, followed by a tasty side dish consisting of a splash of B.B King, a spoonful of Charlie Daniels and a little sprinkle of Otis Redding to top it all off.
The second collection of yet to be recorded songs have the working title ‘Tin Pan Alley Time
Machine’ are essentially songs that sound like they could be legitimate vocal jazz standards but from an alternate universe, (almost like something sci-fi author Philip K Dick might write a short story about).

Time

(Saturday) 5:00 pm

Location

Darwin Ski Club

20 Conacher Street, Fannie Bay, Darwin, Northern Territory

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15may7:00 pmPurple Patch at the RailsDarwin Railway Club

16may1:00 pm8CCC SUNDAY SETSMontes Lounge - Alice Springs

16may3:00 pmSEASIDE SESSIONSDarwin Trailer Boat Club

16may3:30 pmA Meter Apart : Nick YatesDarwin Community Arts

Event Details

Nick Yates is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and improviser with diverse performance experience across genres and a passion for contemporary art music.

Since moving to Darwin in 2018, he has formed jazz quartet The Changes, and contemporary art music group Whistling Kite New Music, who debuted in sold out concerts at Darwin Festival 2020. He also performs regularly with The Djari Project, The DSO, Arafura Music Collective & The Hot n Cold Big Band.

Nick enjoys showcasing the flexibility of the saxophone across classical, jazz and experimental music. In December, Nick participated in the Australian Art Orchestra’s Creative Music Intensive, working with some of Australia’s leading composers and improvising musicians. From this program, new collaborations with Iran Sanadzadeh (Adelaide) and Alice Chance (Sydney) will soon premiere in Darwin.

This performance will survey the diversity of contemporary writing for the saxophone, both as a solo instrument and integrated with electronics. It will also include original compositions and improvised music.

With a strictly limited number of people in the audience, a complete ban on all devices, and with the chairs a meter apart, you are left alone, with no distractions, to fully immerse in the performance.

3.30pm Doors open. Come early and enjoy a drink and a chat.

4.00pm Doors close and the performance begins.

5.00pm Enjoy another drink and discuss your experience with the artist.

5.30pm Event ends.

Bookings are essential!

Time

(Sunday) 3:30 pm

Location

Darwin Community Arts

2-3, 1 Travers st, Darwin

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16may5:00 pmThe House That Jack BuiltDinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association

16may6:00 pmJimmy Green's Lounge ClubDarwin Railway Club

16may6:00 pmJIMMY GREEN'S LOUNGE CLUBDarwin Railway Club

17may7:00 pmGITARRE CAFELucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

18may7:00 pmJump Inn Jammmm - WeeklyJump Inn - Alice Springs

18may8:30 pmSmoke and Oak Jam Sessions - WeeklySmoke and Oak Darwin

19may6:45 pmPerfect Blue Sky - Jane Kitto returnsDinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association

21may5:00 pmLive on FridaysBrowns Mart

21may6:00 pmAcoustic FridaysJump Inn - Alice Springs

21may7:00 pmWelcome to the YeomanryDarwin Railway Club

21may9:00 pmKaraoke Party & Membership DriveHappy Yess

22may9:00 pmFannys at Happy YessHappy Yess

23may1:00 pm8CCC SUNDAY SETSMontes Lounge - Alice Springs

23may3:00 pmSEASIDE SESSIONSDarwin Trailer Boat Club

23may5:00 pmLast Sunday JamDinah Beach Yacht Club

24may7:00 pmGITARRE CAFELucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

25may7:00 pmJump Inn Jammmm - WeeklyJump Inn - Alice Springs

25may8:30 pmSmoke and Oak Jam Sessions - WeeklySmoke and Oak Darwin

27may7:00 pmLeah Flanagan Monthly Residency @ LUCKY BATLucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

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Leah Flanagan (solo) Monthly Thursday Residency.

Thurs 15th April
Thurs 27th May

DEFIANT, HOPEFUL AND STEEPED IN THE DEXTERITIES OF A SONGWRITER DEEPLY CONNECTED TO HER PURPOSE, LEAH FLANAGAN’S MUSIC RESONATES LIKE SWEET MOMENTS OF PEACE AMIDST THE CHAOS OF A CROWDED ROOM.

While her individual accomplishments are many, Flanagan’s musical career continues to be interwoven by rich collaboration with some of Australia’s most luminary writers and performers. Recent collaborations include Archie Roach’s 25th Anniversary reissue of Charcoal Lane, Shane Howard’s Exile: Songs and Tales of Irish Australia, the Mission Songs Project, Yothu Yindi Treaty Project, Songs For Those Who’ve Come Across The Seas, The Spirit of Churaki, and Buried Country 1.5: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music (2015). She has also delivered a variety of works for major arts festivals including Leonard Bernstein’s Mass for the Adelaide Festival and her own work for stage, Midnight Muses, at the Adelaide Cabaret and Sydney Festivals. Flanagan’s song Speak Your Language was covered by singer-songwriter, Alice Skye for ABC Music’s Compilation Deadly Hearts #2.

Leah recently toured as a backing vocalist for Midnight Oil and featured performer in the Makaratta Project.

Her latest album, Colour By Number is out now through Flanagan’s Darwin based, Indigenous owned and operated label Small Change Records.

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm

Location

Lucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

3/7 Pavonia Place, Nightcliff, Northern Territory, Australia 0810

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28may5:00 pmLive on FridaysBrowns Mart

28may6:00 pmAcoustic FridaysJump Inn - Alice Springs

28may9:00 pmNT Songwriter Spotlight Series (Artists TBA)Happy Yess

29may8:00 pmElectric Fields - Garrmalang FestivalDarwin Entertainment Centre

Event Details

Multi-award winning Electric Fields create a striking and haunting merging of living traditional culture with electronic music, bringing moments of breathtaking beauty and power to the stage.

Featuring the rare and beautiful voice of Zaachariaha Fielding – who often sings in his traditional languages of the Anangu people – and the brilliance of producer Michael Ross – Electric Fields music ranges from soulful pop, to epic-scale electronic works, through to intensely intimate story-songs.

Finalists for the ARIA Awards 2019 Best Australian Live Act, Electric Fields took out seven awards in 2019 – the three top spots for the National Live Music Awards: Best Live Act, Best Live Voice, and Electronic Act of the Year; and the National Dreamtime Award, the Corner Award, and two South Australian Music Awards. Coming a close second in Eurovision: Australia Decides, they trended worldwide on Twitter at #7 within minutes of their performance. During 2019 they played many high-profile events including Splendour in the Grass and launched their first self-curated national tour, with sell-out shows across Australia.

Don’t miss their powerful live show, that has won them a legion of fans across the globe.

Garrmalang Festival runs from Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 May 2021. The full program will be released mid-April.

Supported by Northern Territory Government.

TICKETS AND SHOW INFO:
https://bit.ly/ElectricFieldsGarrmalang

Time

(Saturday) 8:00 pm

Location

Darwin Entertainment Centre

93 Mitchell Street, Darwin, Northern Territory 0800

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29may9:00 pmTune Lagoon - Big Boy Strong, Bush Lawyers, Panic BrussHappy Yess

30may1:00 pm8CCC SUNDAY SETSMontes Lounge - Alice Springs

30may3:00 pmSEASIDE SESSIONSDarwin Trailer Boat Club

31may7:00 pmGITARRE CAFELucky Bat Cafe & Pizzeria

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