Fast Cars is an hilarious musical about wannabe winners, family feuds and dirty deals staged at a special site at the base of the beating heart of Bathurst, Wahluu/Mt. Panorama.
Live Music all weekend! Come and celebrate local musicians and be entertained by the best!
Lithgow are you ready for the first ever Lithgow Comedy Festival! (trumpets please)
Late March 2023 will see an amazing selection of comedic talent descend onto Lithgow.
Playing live.
Echoes of Pink Floyd are dedicated to one goal: To authentically recreate the wonderful sights and sounds of one of the world’s greatest progressive bands for the enjoyment of fans aged 9 - 99.
Join Orange Regional Museum on Saturday 25 March at 4pm to experience the Dunera Mass in a special collaboration with the Orange Regional Conservatorium’s Symphonic Choir, performed amongst Orange Regional Museum’s exhibition Enemy Aliens: the Dunera boys in Orange, 1941.
This is an opportunity to hear this choral work performed perhaps for the first time since 1941. The Dunera Mass is one of a few newly re-discovered manuscripts composed by internee Max-Peter Meyer aboard the HMT Dunera and performed while detained in Hay, Orange and Tatura.
Alex Lloyd returns to the stage with “Live and Amazing” tour. The platinum, ARIA award-winning musician will brings his hits to Bathurst!
Chad Morgan - The last of our pioneers still touring Australia.
Dog Trumpet - featuring; Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty original members of Mental As Anything , Bernie Hayes and Jim Elliott - Cruel Sea. Are touring their brand new album Shadowland in 2023.
Bloom is a large-scale live work of light, colour and sound that contemplates the transformational act of unfolding flora. Shape shifting swathes of illuminated colour will metamorphosise and flow gently across the tree-scape of Robertson Park with drawn lines, bold shapes and electric hues unfolding to subterranean sonic tones as if emerging from deep underground.
For budding young acts aged 12 to 25 in the Bathurst, Orange, Blayney, Lithgow, Oberon and Cowra local government areas, this will be a fantastic opportunity to to get outside their bedrooms, garages and school music rooms to share their talent with wider audiences.
A chance encounter. A touch. An improbable connection. On by Circa follows eight strangers whose lives cross in the courtyard of an apartment block. Over the course of a single night they will fight, love, laugh and find moments of beauty and transcendence.
After the smash-hits of Humans 2.0, Carnival of the Animals and Peepshow, Brisbane’s globally renowned Circa returns with their newest creation On by Circa.
Combine the songs of both and you have a night like no other. The Best of the Best that Australia has to offer, this is the Last Stand, Chisel Barnes Show. A paramount performance, that will make you look twice to check you are not listening to the real thing.
This month, in appearance order: DEADLY NED, WILD BILL SKEWY & THE CARRINGTON EVENT, THE PHRASE NOISE OFFENSIVE, MELL MOORE.
Waldo Fabian has been described as a "kick-arse" bass player, songwriter, and producer working across Latin, jazz Latin and Latin pop and pop styles, working with some of Australia's top musicians
Come and hear how the passion of the Easter story inspired great composers! From the devout Lutheran, Johann Sebastian Bach, who composed a new cantata every week for one job, to the prolific Joseph Haydn, commissioned to compose the suitably solemn and dramatic “Seven Last Words of Christ”, and finally, to the Russian nationalist, Rimsky-Korsakov, who infused his Russian Easter Overture with populist Orthodox melodies of the time. A poignant spiritual and some glorious flute playing from Emma Knott will be heard as well - please join us.
The Corner Store Gallery is excited to announce a brand new live music series the Studio Sessions! Join us for a monthly(ish) series of intimate performances by some of the region's best young talent. Bringing music and art together for the first time, Studio Sessions invites you to immerse yourself in our creative space and enjoy a slow Sunday session at The Corner Store Gallery.
Come for a taste of the upcoming Oberon Chamber Music Festival with a preview concert featuring some of the world-class musicians who will be performing at the main festival to be held on 24 - 26 November 2023 at the Malachi.
Songs, Stories, Poems and Bush Tunes Celebrating the Golden Era of Shearing with MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ, WARREN FAHEY & CLARE O'MEARA
Join professors Lexi Con and Noel Edge (the Word Nerd and the Science Freak) for a thrilling voyage through the alphabet — where sesquipedalian words inspire mind-blowing scientific surprises! It's a tongue-twisting race from A to Z that's equal parts explosive, messy, hilarious, fascinating and gross. Brace yourself for an hour of carefully crafted alphabetical, scientifical (award-winning!) chaos — that floats, flies, squirts, sprays, ignites and erupts!
oin cast Jonathan Biggins, Mandy Bishop, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott in a carnival ride of political mayhem.
Join Smith & Jones + Todd Fuller for a night of live music, filmclip screening, drinks & nibbles + a colouring activity!
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