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Bird’s Basement marks a decade of world-class jazz in Melbourne’s CBD

Bird’s Basement marks a decade of world-class jazz in Melbourne’s CBD

January 15th, 2026 - Sean Car

Hidden down Singer’s Lane just off La Trobe St, Bird’s Basement has spent the past decade quietly shaping Melbourne’s live music landscape.

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Whole lotta rock: City of Melbourne plans tribute to AC/DC

July 4th, 2025 - Georgie Atkins

Melbourne is gearing up to celebrate one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, with the City of Melbourne backing a series of events to honour AC/DC’s enduring legacy and the 50th anniversary of a defining moment in Aussie music history.

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MESS moves to Fed Square, bringing electronic music to Melbourne’s cultural heart

May 26th, 2025 - Sean Car

The Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS), home to the largest public collection of electronic instruments in the Southern Hemisphere, is relocating from North Melbourne to Fed Square – in a move set to broaden its reach and amplify its impact.

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Six-fingered orphan’s forgotten masterpiece

April 24th, 2024 - CBD News

The Australian Chamber Choir is making history by performing music by a disabled orphan girl after 300 years of silence.

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Hemispheres collide this May in Eight Seasons 

April 24th, 2024 - CBD News

As Melbourne begins to descend into the cold this May, Orchestra Victoria will traverse through the seasons with a pairing of two unmissable classical works with The Eight Seasons.

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Experiencing more at the Melbourne Recital Centre

March 20th, 2024 - Jack Hayes

Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) is celebrating 15 years of ground-breaking performances with a range of new membership offers to get you “closer to the music and musicians you love.”

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Violin virtuoso and piano prodigy join forces at Melbourne Recital Centre

July 26th, 2023 - CBD News

Feted for his effortless renditions of the otherwise impossible – from Paganini and Locatelli to Brett Dean – Ilya Gringolts’ performances and recordings have established him as one of the quintessential violin virtuosi of our time.

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Jen Cloher

March 30th, 2023 - Chris Mineral

At a recent poetry reading at Milk! Records HQ, Jen Cloher read out poems from her recent book of poems entitled IHU. This book of intimate poems regarding familial relationships is a fine companion work of art to Cloher’s brilliant fifth album Ko Au Te Awa Te Awa Ko Au, I Am The River The River Is Me.

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3MBS and ALPHA60 present Music, She Wrote

March 15th, 2023 - CBD News

3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM presents its third chamber music festival celebrating women in music.

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ZED SIX thrill crowds on NYE

February 2nd, 2023 - Chris Mineral

The real musical fireworks were happening New Year’s Eve 2022 at Melbourne's Treasury Gardens, on Wurundjeri Country. Celebrating NYE with style and panache was the ZED SIX jazz hip hop musical crew, with extra special guests, keyboardist Adam Rudegair and the phenomenal guitarist Kellindo (Janelle Monae's band).

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Gough Music Spark

Gough Music Spark

May 29th, 2018 - CBD News
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