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![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…
![Standing at a podium, his eyes closed in concentration, a bald-headed white man wearing a black suit and white shirt conducts an orchestra.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Hans-Graf_ph087_220728-c-Jack-Yam.jpg?w=310)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra set for 2025 Australian debut
Praised as one of the best orchestras in the world, the SSO performs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in February…
![A performer at Spirit of Welcome Community Festival 2023. Photo: Damon AMB. A woman with long brown hair wearing a white top with floral embroidery singing at the front of a seated crowd.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_4207-e1718256499334.jpeg?w=310)
Empowering refugee artists through music and culture
Refugee artists performing at the Spirit of Welcome Community Festival on 16 June will be renumerated at industry rates.
![A bird's-eye view of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in concert, taken directly above the stage and looking straight down.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Image-2_image-credit-Martin-Ollman.jpg?w=310)
Canberra Symphony Orchestra receives Federal funding boost
Badly impacted by declining ticket sales and sponsorship revenue post-pandemic, the CSO receives $4.1 million over four years in this…
![A woman of Asian appearance sits on a stool smiling at the camera. She has long dark hair and wears an orange-brown outfit. The background is indistinct.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DAMI-IM-e1714354045770.jpg?w=310)
New musical celebrates Australian inventiveness
The creation of the black box flight recorder is the focus of a new musical theatre production opening at QPAC…
![Audiences members watch on as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra perform in a park in Gladstone, Queensland, on a brightly-lit outdoor stage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/QSO-SUTS-19-00237-HDR.jpg?w=310)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces five-year regional commitment
Education, health and wellbeing, and a commitment to First Nations people underpin the Orchestra’s new regional focus.
![Black and white image of a smiling white man leaning against a music packing case wearing a white bow tie and formal suit.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/unnamed.jpg?w=310)
Vale Sir Andrew Davis
The MSO’s Conductor Laureate died on Saturday aged 80.
![A woman wearing headphones standing on a train.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6686313.jpg?w=310)
New study examines why we love sad music
A UNSW study examines our enjoyment of negative emotions aroused by sad music.