Performance

The Creative Streets Festival will take Armidale' creative scene to new heights with a spectacular lineup of entertainment that will ignite your imagination and celebrate our region’s vibrant spirit ... This isn’t just a festival, it’s a creative collision of art, music, ideas, and community.

The Australian Burlesque Festival’s Big Tease Soiree returns to Araluen Arts Centre in 2025 for another dazzling year, celebrating an incredible 16 years of vintage glamour, seductive artistry, and world-class burlesque.

Renowned Australian comedian and actor, Damian Callinan returns to the Gannawarra next month as part of his tour celebrating the iconic community icon – the town hall. As part of his Hall Stories tour, the creator of the hit Netflix movie, The Merger will celebrate the importance of the Lake Charm and Murrabit halls with each community during two shows supported by Gannawarra Shire Council.

Six years after leaving a career as an internationally celebrated jazz pianist for the life of an ordained Buddhist monk, Koun Vincent has announced a return to the keyboard and the national stage with a new Australian tour including a performance in Corryong.

Three appreciative audiences have enjoyed the latest Piggery Lane Players production, 'Don't Get Your Vicars in a Twist'. The show, which ran this past weekend, featured a mix of much-loved PLP veterans and talented newcomers, all of whom delivered a high-energy performance that left audiences thoroughly entertained.

Female of the Species has already begun rehearsals. Opening on October 24, this too is another show full of laughs. We really wanted to end the year on a high note and our final shows for 2025 are bringing so much joy and laughter.

Tibetan-Australian singer-songwriter Tenzin Choegyal is inviting music lovers to join his cultural journey in a one-night-only performance in the Scenic Rim. His Whispering Sky concert at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre ... 16 May, will showcase his extraordinary vocal ability and mastery of traditional instruments such as the lingbu (bamboo flute) and dranyen (three-stringed lute).

It’s been a long time coming – the last time there was opera at the Casino Civic Hall was in 2017. The upgraded civic hall will again host a night of country music and opera in May.

Doscover the toe-tapping energy of Flamenco when award-winning dancer Annalouise Paul and some of Australia’s finest musicians bring Flamenco for Everybody to Regional NSW. This red-hot, live performance features poetry, percussion, Flamenco guitar, contemporary and flamenco dance and storytelling … that comes to Western Riverina from March 3-14 and Outback NSW from April 1-12.

Patricia Gill. Shamara de Tissera began to play the harp as a young woman when pregnant with her son and no longer able to do eurythmia ... With her move to Denmark and first performance directing the Hildegard Harp Meditation at the Brave New Works Festival in January, she brought a wave of interest in the instrument.

Kate Hill. The night is young, the wine is flowing and drifting out from the main stage of the Coonawarra Soldiers Memorial Hall is the sound of twelve singers belting out the classic Let’s Put the Rooster in the Stew. "We’re pretty rough and ready - definitely one of a kind," said Coonawarra Community Choir Leader and Joanna resident Anne Woodard, with a laugh.

This years theme “Encouraging Dreams” was built on the last years Fashion Parade theme “Dream Big”. Thirty five children took part in the parade and a number also took part in the warm up circus act ... Mary is working on raising the awareness that the key word in the program is “RESPONSIBILITY”. Everyone is responsible for their own actions ...

Sebastian Calderon. A highly acclaimed dinner theatre production that is sparking conversation about mental health and wellbeing is returning to Loxton. After last year’s success, ‘Kick off ya Boots’ makes a comeback in 2024 for a new glimpse of the Connor family’s farming journey, with the show organised by Little Town Productions.

Nimbin School of Arts has an extensive program of diverse cultural events this Spring, but one of the absolute highlights is the Twilight Recital featuring world renowned pianist, teacher and human rights activist, Roger Woodward. Sydney-born and now based in the USA, Roger Woodward’s international career began in the early 1970s and, over the subsequent decades, he has performed in orchestras around the world, and under the baton of some of the most famous conductors.

What do you get when you take a Fireback Huntsman home for research and photograph it in your bathroom? And not just any bathroom... Lego bathroom? And why? TEDx speaker, author and wildlife educator Steven Gill says "Let Me Explain..." with his new Australian east coast tour!

A Dunera Mass, part-written in Hay more than 80 years ago, is returning for a site-specific performance at Hay War Memorial Hall. The dramatised concert will be performed in Hay during the annual Dunera Commemorative day ... The concert will involve the community where some of Max-Peter Meyer's music was written while he spent part of 1940-41 in the internment camp at Hay.

After more than 50 years performing and releasing 22 hit albums that have sold more than 2.6 million copies, Australian music royalty, Marcia Hines is bringing her renowned stage presence to Grafton’s Saraton Theatre on her ‘Still Shining’ concert tour. Last week, Marcia spoke to the CV Independent about her upcoming performance in Grafton and her life in music.

From Mozart to Katy Perry, Icelandic hymns to Aussie rock anthems, it’s a musical adventure like you’ve never heard before. The string quartet will perform intimate shows in Kangaroo Island, Robe and Lameroo. Each show will be unique to the venue with the repertoire – spanning multiple genres from classical, folk, pop and new music - curated by the local community presenter group.

Lyster Opera is excited to return to Daylesford in this new production of Rossini’s hilarious comedy The Italian Girl in Algiers ... Director Jamie Moffat says this early work by Rossini is rarely performed because it is technically very difficult ... “We are very lucky to have assembled a cast who can really do the score justice.”

Patricia Gill. The Orenda Trio says a house concert is their favourite performance venue to share musical experience and communicate with the audience. As flautist Michael Howell told the audience gathered at a Weedon Hill home... an audience through interaction with the performers, plays a big role in how music is interpreted.

On Sunday July 21, lucky music fans from near and far were fortunate to attend Jazz in July featuring The Martini Set, at the Charlton Park Multipurpose Complex. Hosting the event for the fourth time, the Charlton Arts committee was pleased with the number in attendance, although less than previous years.

Cairns-born and raised opera singer Cassandra Wright will return home from Europe next month to perform with acclaimed concert pianist Harry Rylance in a one-night-only recital at  St. Monica’s Cathedral ... Night Songs, An Evening of Song and Opera  will be an absolute treat, featuring the accomplished international pairing showcasing pieces from their debut album,  In the Twilight.