South Australia Archives

The 2023 Air Awards nominees have been revealed.

South Australia has outflanked the rest of Australia scoring the only Australian performance by Jack White for the all new Harvest Rock Festival.

Adelaide’s Spin Off have led their 2022 announcement with the wise words of Frank Zappa. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

Adelaide is taking its Adelaide Guitar Festival annual. After usually happening every two years, the Adelaide Guitar Festival set for July will be the first annual event.

Secret Sounds, Five Four Entertainment and Groove today confirm that their forthcoming concert series, Summer Sounds Festival, will proceed with the first shows taking place this weekend.

And we have a concert announcement … The Cat Empire, Missy Higgins and Boy & Bear have been announced for Summersalt 2021 in Adelaide.

The Angels’ new album is a remake of an old one. ‘Darkroom Recharged’ is 1980’s ‘Dark Room’ done 40 years later.

AIR is thrilled to return to the UNESCO City of Music this October for its annual AIR Awards and Indie-Con Australia Conference.

Adelaide Guitar Festival cannot go ahead in 2020, due to the ongoing public health emergency of COVID-19. The closure of Adelaide Festival Centre venues to the public, the ban on public gatherings and interstate and international travel restrictions have significantly impacted our artists and programming.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2020 has been cancelled, following the South Australian Government’s declaration of a public health emergency, and ban on non-essential gatherings of 100 people or more at indoor premises including Adelaide Festival Centre. There are also travel bans in force which affect artists coming from interstate and overseas to South Australia.

Ziggy Marley will no longer be performing at Womadelaide on 9 March.

RÜFÜS DU SOL take top billing for the Castaway Festival for Adelaide in January. The 2020 line-up also features The Presets, Wafia, Willaris K and Lastlings.

AIR have revealed the nominees for the Best Indepent Label at the upcoming AIR Awards in Adelaide.

Music SA’s unsigned initiative Scouted has rounded up seven acts to perform at Adelaide’s East End on July 28 It is all part of the South Australia’s grab of AIR Awards coinciding with Indie-Con Australia.