Concerts, gigs, bands and music in Sydney
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Thu 24 May She was only just here , really, and yet she's coming on back for her biggest Sydney show yet in support of her enormously... More details
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Fri 25 May Vivid LIVE is getting a solid injection of hip hop with the announcement of Detroit's Danny Brown and LA's MED headlining... More details
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Fri 25 May Naturally 7 combine a medley of music styles including hip hop, soul and jazz in an a capella style they call "vocal play".... More details
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Fri 25 May PVT be unleashing their special style of electronic rock onto the Opera Theatre stage as a part of this year's Vivid LIVE .... More details
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Fri 25 May You may have caught them on their epic M1 tour last year, but that's no excuse to miss the Gold Coast boys playing their new... More details
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Fri 25 May Brooklyn-based Devonté Hynes has countless behind-the-scenes credits to his name including writing for Florence and the... More details
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Fri 25 May The Aussie hip hop pioneers are back with a new album, Evolution Machine , and they're still showing the others how it's... More details
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25-26 May Kicking off the Vivid LIVE festivities for this year is Florence and the Machine. It's not just your ordinary Flo-Mo though;... More details
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25-26 May Lead singer of the Whitlams, Tim Freedman, will be performing solo in an evening of grand pianos, well-crafted cynicism, sweet... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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Sat 26 May Seeing as Modular founder Steven Pavlovic did such a damn good job curating Vivid LIVE last year, it makes sense that his... More details
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Sat 26 May New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys: together at last, dropping the finest in meticulously choreographed dance moves... More details
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Sat 26 May Danish trio Efterklang will be making their Australian debut in the grandest of styles at the Opera Theatre alongside the... More details
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Sat 26 May Pianist Simon Tedeschi will join the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra as a special guest soloist to perform Gershwin's... More details
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Sat 26 May Steve Balbi (Noiseworks), Mitchell Anderson and Robyn Loau join Wolf Mail and Ian Tilley (Boom Crash Opera) for a night of... More details
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25-26 May Kicking off the Vivid LIVE festivities for this year is Florence and the Machine. It's not just your ordinary Flo-Mo though;... More details
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25-26 May Lead singer of the Whitlams, Tim Freedman, will be performing solo in an evening of grand pianos, well-crafted cynicism, sweet... More details
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26-27 May
An engigma wrapped in a tux, Kansas-born songstress Janelle Monáe is one artist where “defies classification” feels... More details
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26-28 May If you're in the music industry or want to be, Song Summit is a convention you need to attend. Part of Vivid Sydney, Song... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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Sun 27 May
A few years back when I asked a friend if he’d heard of Sydney’s Seekae, his response was “CK? Like, Calvin... More details
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Sun 27 May Shara Worden AKA My Brightest Diamond is returning to the Sydney Opera House after being a part of Vivid LIVE in 2010. This... More details
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Sun 27 May Some days are best spent doing nothing much at all... Every Sunday at the Bank Hotel acoustic musicians and... More details
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Sun 27 May Slide and shimmy your way to the Standard for an evening of big bands, loud rhythms and hootin' horns. The Pretty Big Band,... More details
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26-27 May
An engigma wrapped in a tux, Kansas-born songstress Janelle Monáe is one artist where “defies classification” feels... More details
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26-28 May If you're in the music industry or want to be, Song Summit is a convention you need to attend. Part of Vivid Sydney, Song... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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26-28 May If you're in the music industry or want to be, Song Summit is a convention you need to attend. Part of Vivid Sydney, Song... More details
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28-30 May The National guitarist Bryce Dessner, Bjork and Grizzly Bear collaborator/composer Nico Muhly and singer/songwriter Sufjan... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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Tue 29 May Flinders Quartet will be gracing the intimate surroundings of the Utzon Room to present a program of works by composers... More details
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Tue 29 May How does loss of hearing affect a composer? That’s the question that Melbourne’s ace Flinders Quartet will explore in... More details
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28-30 May The National guitarist Bryce Dessner, Bjork and Grizzly Bear collaborator/composer Nico Muhly and singer/songwriter Sufjan... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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Wed 30 May 2011 was a big year for Sydney quintet Boy & Bear. Not only did the boys (and, er, bears) release their Nashville-recorded... More details
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Wed 30 May Sometimes there are bands you hear a lot of fuss about - only for them to vanish. One of those bands would be local boys... More details
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28-30 May The National guitarist Bryce Dessner, Bjork and Grizzly Bear collaborator/composer Nico Muhly and singer/songwriter Sufjan... More details
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25 May-03 Jun Vivid Sydney returns for its fourth year without a headline curator à la Brian Eno (2009) or Lou Reed (2010) but with a raft... More details
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30 May-03 Jun The brainchild of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' frontwoman Karen O, in collaboration with KK Barrett (whose production design credits... More details
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