Latest news: Music

A staple of the Australian music scene, Julia Stone and her brother Angus headline SummerSalt, which heads to Stage 88 on Friday 27 January. CW caught up with Julia before the tour kicked off to discuss family dynamics, gigs, and video games.

Music for Canberra is inviting players under the age of 25 to come and try out for a spot in the Canberra Youth Orchestra (CYO).

Canberra's favourite Easter weekend event, the National Folk Festival returns to Exhibition Park from 6 to 10 April.

Goodbye for now, not forever to beloved Canberra-based singer, songwriter, and musician Kim Yang.

Anita Pointer, one of the four sibling Pointer Sisters who enjoyed worldwide fame in the 1970s and 1980s for their catchy pop songs, has died aged 74.

The Canberra music scene has celebrated its revival in 2022, with venues opening back up post-pandemic lockdowns. Though numbers aren’t quite what they were before Covid-19 took over the world, the effort made by the attendees and performs deserved its own special night.

TikTok is becoming the main place for people to hear new music and under-35s are more keen to find new artists than older Australians, a new survey shows.

Rapper Baker Boy has won five ARIA Awards including album of the year, for the critically acclaimed Gela.

Australian country music legend Adam Harvey and long-time tour partner Beccy Cole are celebrating the release of their duet album Great Country Songbook Volume 3 with a national tour. They perform at the Street Theatre on Friday 14 October.

Alinta Barlow is a part of the Winanggaay Ngunnawal Language Group, who are dedicated to reviving the Ngunnawal language. Together, they’ve been working on the project since 2019, researching the language and speaking to elders. The group has grown to the point where some members are able to teach language to others through workshops.

War and Peace, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s concert this month, encompasses two centuries of German heroism and defeat.

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 season, Chroma, is a kaleidoscope of colour and music, often inspired by nature.

Music for Canberra’s innovative program for adults living with disability has been supported by The Snow Foundation for the past 13 years. From a pool of 171 grant applicants, the Music Abilities Program (MAP) was selected for a further $50,000 from the Foundation to be distributed over a five-year period.

Have you ever wanted to make sense of those squiggly lines in music books and master the art of musical performance? Now is your chance, when internationally renowned innovative music educator Duncan Lorien brings his virtual ground-breaking Understanding Music Seminar to Canberra on 16-18 September.

Canberra-based composer Matthew J Webster has struggled with mental health most of his life, spending time in and out of hospital throughout his adult life before a controversial therapy helped him get a better hold of his illness.

Members of South Korean band BTS have denied they are going to separate, two days after announcing in a video that its members are going to focus on individual projects and park their activities as a group.