Monster List of Music Festivals in Australia - Spring & Summer!
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Editorial Review
Spring and summer's warm and dry weather is very friendly to music festivals - so it's no surprise that this is the time of year when Australia is absolutely bursting at the seams with them. Find out what's where when in spring and summer below.September
Bassinthedust (Alice Springs)
Parklife (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth)
Darwin International Guitar Festival (Darwin)
October
Jazz in the Vines (Hunter Valley, NSW)
Manly Jazz Festival (Sydney)
The Great Escape (Sydney)
Village Fair (Sydney)
Overcranked (Brisbane)
Stonefest (Canberra)
York Jazz Festival (Perth)
November
Queenscliff Music Festival (Melbourne)
Chill Island (Melbourne)
Harbourlife (Sydney)
December
Falls Festival (Melbourne, Hobart)
Meredith Music Festival (Melbourne)
Stereosonic Festival (Melbourne)
Harbour Party (Melbourne)
Pyramid Rock Festival (Melbourne)
Homebake (Sydney)
Woodford Folk Festival (Brisbane)
Bridge Town Festival (Brisbane)
January
Big Day Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth)
Southbound (Perth)
Rainbow Serpent Festival (Melbourne)
Field Day (Sydney)
Summafieldayze (Brisbane)
Summadayze (Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth)
Eltham Jazz & Blues Festival (Melbourne)
Tamworth Country Music Festival (Tamworth, NSW)
Kiss My Grass (Melbourne)
Zoo Twilights (Melbourne)
Thredbo Blues Festival (Thredbo, Victoria)
February
Brunswick Music Festival (Melbourne)
Good Vibrations (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane)
Brisbane Blues Festival
Corinbank Festival (Canberra)
St Jerome's Laneway Festival (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide)
Mella Rock Fest (Tasmania)
MS Fest (Tasmania)
A Day on the Green (vineyard-based events - Victoria, NSW)
National Festival of Australian Blues Music (Sydney)
Soundwave Festival (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth)
WAMi Festival (Perth)
Earth Freq (Sydney)
Clarence Jazz Festival (Hobart)
Twilight at Taronga (Sydney)
Nannup Music Festival (Nannup, WA)
Have we missed any big festivals? Add a comment below and let us know.
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Janet Rosado
October 29, 2008
You missed out Peats Ridge!!!! A great New Years festival
tru
December 19, 2008
Harbour party, Lunar Park Sydney on New Years! Best ever! Parklife is also very good but i think it just misses out on october..:(
KP
February 01, 2009
Grape Grazing - Yarra Valley Wineries - 14th & 15th Feb 2009
Lew Nord
March 01, 2009
You missed the Narooma Blues and Rockabilly concerts in October
erin smith
March 12, 2009
playground weekender, del rio, wisemans ferry, in february
Chayelle
August 16, 2009
Pro-Show - with the quicksivler pro surfing event - Gold Coast QLD (March 09)
Olly
October 24, 2009
sound scape festival in Hobart on the 9 of January =)
Sorrowz
November 29, 2009
Dont forget Screamfest Australia!!! 31st Dec - 1 Jan, Sydneys Enmore Theatre http://www.screamfest.com.au/ Line-up! International Acts: Cynic (USA) Dark Funeral (Sweden) Destroyer 666 (Aust/EU) Destruction (Germany) Edguy (Germany) Ensiferum (Finland) Rotting Christ (Greece) Sonata Arctica (Finland) Spawn Of Possession (Sweden) Local Acts: Black Majesty (Vic) Darker Half (NSW) Defamer (Qld) Eyefear (Vic) Eye Of The Enemy (Vic) Killrazer (NSW) Synperium (NSW) Universum (SA) Vanishing Point Virgin Black (SA)
annabel goward
November 29, 2009
mona foma festival of live music and acts, international.Jan 9-12
NTrip
November 29, 2009
Foreshore held in Canberra in Nov!!!! Absolutely awesome
Jude Woods
December 04, 2009
this one 2009.perthfestival.com.au/greatsouthern/playmakers/
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