PBS Presents

For one night only, on a very special dancefloor, with some very special friends, Lovers Ball will be an excursion in adoration and tenderness in the kookiest of ways.

Clear out your calendar, Live N Local is BACK in 2019!

The Music Victoria Awards return to the Melbourne Recital Centre for their 14th year with submissions for musicians, venues and festivals now open.

Presented by Australian Musician, the line-up boasts an impressive haul of both local and international artists.

International Blues Music Day – Saturday 3 August

Echuca-Moama has established itself as the place to be for heart-starting blues and roots music and the perfect antidote for a bad case of the winter blues with its annual Winter Blues Festival.

The City of Yarra is home to some of Melbourne’s most iconic live music venues, each forming part of a thriving cultural ecosystem that caters to a vast variety of musical genres and tastes.

The global music community comes together over two days at the Abbotsford Convent for CHANGES , a music summit interrogating the current state of the local and international music industry across the realms of MUSIC,...

Rafiq Bhatia (USA) Sunday 9 June, 7:00pm, 9:30pm The Jazzlab Guitarist Rafiq Bhatia is an artist who refuses to be constrained by the preconceptions of what’s expected from contemporary jazz musicians. Drawing inspiration from influences...

Aventurine is a stunning new work from acclaimed bassist and composer, Linda May Han Oh.

Vince Jones: A Personal Selection (Australia) Thursday 6 June, 7:30pm Melbourne Recital Centre A national treasure whose music defies categorisation, throughout his 20-album international career he has never hesitated in his musical evolution. Starting out...

Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton (USA) Support: Audrey Powne Wednesday 5 June, 7:30pm Melbourne Recital Centre The unexpected breakout star of the Oscar Winning documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013), Fischer’s original break came...

Ambrose Akinmusire: Origami Harvest (USA) Support: Brekky Boy Sunday 2 June, 7:00pm at 170 Russell Hailed as ‘jazz’s most influential bandleader under 40’ (The New York Times), trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is situated in both the...

Vijay Iyer Trio (USA) Friday 31 May, 7:00pm, 9:30pm Sunday 2 June, 7:00pm, 9:30pm The Jazzlab A visionary pianist, composer and musical thinker, GRAMMY nominee Vijay Iyer’s creative work spans the arts, the humanities and...

Multicultural Arts Victoria presents Sonidos Del Norte (Sounds of the North), a concert with a Latin heart and a global twist, on 1 June 2019 at Darebin Arts Centre.

Displacement references the migrant experience when one’s sense of home and community feels somewhat displaced due to the uprooting of one’s life.

Billy Childs: Rebirth (USA) Support: The Jazzlab Orcheztra Friday 31 May, 7:30pm Melbourne Recital Centre A five-time GRAMMY winner, piano virtuoso and prolific composer, Billy Childs is one of the most exhilarating artists working in...

Since its inception in 2015, The Senegambian Jazz Band has fused Afro jazz, deep world music beats and funk to create some truly awe-inspiring rhythms and melodies. With influences from Gambia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana and...

Stonnington Jazz: Be entertained. Get energised. Feel inspired.

Featuring the best established and up & coming artists, The Jazz Roots Festival pays tribute to the art form we all love - jazz.