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Regional and Remote Music Summit headed to NSW in 2025

Following its successful Darwin debut this month, the Summit’s second iteration will be held in regional NSW next year.
14 Aug 2024 9:21
Richard Watts
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Little Quirks (Runaway Records) performing at Under Western Skies, Dubbo, 2021. Photo: Luke Hibbard Photography.

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The second-ever Regional and Remote Music Summit will be held in NSW in 2025, the Minns Labor Government has confirmed.

The announcement was made on Friday 9 August by NSW Minister for the Arts, Music and the Night-time Economy, John Graham, at the conclusion of the inaugural Regional and Remote Music Summit in Darwin.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts

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