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![The musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra arrayed on stage in a grand concert hall.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/MSO-Hamer-Hall-2022.jpg?w=310)
Managing Director leaves MSO: Peter Garrett to conduct independent external review
Sophie Galaise has left the MSO after the Orchestra’s musicians made a statement of 'no confidence' in senior management.
![Festival-goers at Byron Bay Bluesfest. A crowd of people gathering below a stage facing the camera. A figure in the centre of the photo is wrapped up like a mummy with their arms outstretched.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/453512580_913506624152075_982871889915616653_n-e1723684713416.jpg?w=310)
Bluesfest axed after 2025, ending its 36-year run
News of Bluesfest's closure shocked some while others see it as inevitable due to shift in demand.
![A group of young Aboriginal women dressed in black tracksuits bearing traditional designs in white, crouch and stand on stage as they sing.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Marliya-Spinifex-Gum-7.jpg?w=310)
First Nations choir Marliya to take ‘Spinifex Gum’ to London
Making their international debut, the Cairns-based choir Marliya will perform the critically acclaimed ‘Spinifex Gum’ at the Barbican in October.
!['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…
![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.
![2024 Regional & Remote Music Summit. A photo of a stage seen from afar against the sunset of a natural environment.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/444154923_122111514074310914_8843115643133313501_n-e1722481034520.jpg?w=310)
Darwin to host first ever Regional & Remote Music Summit
This is for the seven million Australians existing outside of the metropolitan music industry who need their voices heard.
![live music: a male musician playing the drums in darkened bright blue light on a small stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/greyson-joralemon-wfBXHhMG67o-unsplash_RESIZED.jpg?w=310)
NSW's sound investment in musicians
Live music and touring acts get a $4.8 million boost in NSW.
![Ability Fest. Five men in black T shirts are in front of festival crowd, one on the right is in a wheelchair, smiling and holding a microphone.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Ability-Fest_463-e1720066886832.jpg?w=310)
Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland
The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.
![Melt 2024 first program reveal – Club Broadway: A Wicked Halloween Ball. Photo: Supplied. A digitally rendered image featuring a witch in black at the centre, floating into an eerie green background surrounded by bats and phantoms.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/club-broadway-e1719987368287.webp?w=310)
Melt gets heated for Halloween with wicked drag
Brisbane’s 2024 Melt festival is gearing up with further program announcements including a ‘Wicked’-inspired Halloween ball.
![A geo-locator for live music gigs. Photo: Tnarg, Pexels. A person wearing headphones walking on the street with his phone out, seemingly in search of something.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/pexels-tnarg-4206427-e1719978680741.jpg?w=310)
New one-stop platform to help locate live gigs anytime
Live Music Locator is a free to use platform that aims to tackle discoverability issues for small to medium music…