Music
!['Elder percussionist' Duré Dara OAM receives the Luminary Award for Victoria at 2024 Art Music Awards. A woman of Indian descent playing a range of percussion instruments.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/VIC-Dure-Dara-credit-Darren-Gill-e1723530123779.jpeg?w=310)
Powerful women creators sweep the 2024 Art Music Awards
This year's Art Music Awards offered a nod towards the lived experience of women creators, celebrating their strength and stewardship…
![A couple in white are dancing. She is being lifted up in the air. Surrounding them is an orchestra of strings in black.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Silence-and-Rapture-ACO_City-Recital-Hall_credit_Daniel-Boud_0071.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Silence & Rapture, Adelaide Town Hall
A sumptuous exploration of the divine in the human condition explored through a fusion of music from across the centuries…
![Two young female performers, one blonde-haired and playing a tambourine, the other red-haired and playing a ukulele, sing into the same microphone on stage at a music festival.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Little-Quirks-Runaway-Records-performing-at-Under-Western-Skies-in-Dubbo-2021_credit-Luke-Hibbard-Photography.jpg?w=310)
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.
![A blonde woman with ski goggles on her head wearing a pink skiing outfit.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/I-Wish-You-Well-c-Mark-Senior-4-e1723533383979.jpg?w=310)
Festival review: I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A parody musical that takes delight in skewering all things Gwyneth Paltrow.
![An orchestra scene, with a conductor at the left and musicians on the right.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ASO-Symphony_saigeprime-2131.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Symphony Series 5 – Fearless, Adelaide Town Hall
Lord Byron writ large in music at the Adelaide Town Hall!
![A sea of battery-operated candles on the stage as well as a candelabra with candles on them.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/blur.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Candlelight: A Tribute to Gorillaz and Blur, Athenaeum Theatre
The songs of Britpop sensation Blur and virtual collaborative band Gorillaz are reformatted and performed by a string quartet (plus…
![A dark-haired man in a colonial American military uniform, complete with cavalry sabre at his side, faces towards the camera. A group of dancers in similar uniforms pose dramatically behind him.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Hamilton_Sydney-Lyric-Theatre_credit_Daniel-Boud_442_HEBE.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Hamilton, Sydney Lyric Theatre, The Star
‘Hamilton’ has returned to Australia. It’s slick, spectacular and runs like clockwork – but remains dogged by some fundamental issues.
![The six cast members of the musical 'Six' strut their stuff. They wear fluorescent-framed sunglasses and matching ruffs, and pose on a stage lit dramatically in red and purple.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/SIX-AUSTRALIA-2024-HOUSE-OF-HOLBEIN-PHOTO-JAMES-D-MORGAN-GETTY-IMAGES.jpg?w=310)
Musical review: Six, Comedy Theatre
The return of the musical phenomenon that not only gives agency to Henry VIII's six wives, but makes them pop…
![Four people in black are huddled together, looking down, each one holding onto saxophones.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Rankin.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Australian Festival of Chamber Music, various Townsville venuesÂ
A reflection on some key concerts and events at the 2024 Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
![Silence & Rapture. A female dancer with slicked back dark hair has one leg bent with her foot touching her other knee and one arm stretching up and the other across to a bald headed man standing and playing a double bass. They are in a wharf building converted to a studio/stage space.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ACO_SDC_Silence-and-Rapture_credit_Daniel-Boud_2MB-e1722816829902.jpg?w=310)
The rapturous reunion of the Sydney Dance Company and Australian Chamber Orchestra
Sydney Dance Company has teamed up with the Australian Chamber Orchestra once more on a heavenly tour.