Ronnie Lane

Hypersonic Festival will return to Melbourne and Sydney in November with Armin Van Buuren, W&W, Showtek, Timmy Trumpet and Hybrid Minds among the announced headliners.

Melbourne International Jazz Festival will bring more than 550 artists from 18 countries to the city from 16 to 25 October, with 150-plus events across 30 venues.

Paul Stanhope, Alex Turley, Mindy Meng Wang, Monica Lim, Nat Bartsch and Liza Lim AM were among the major recipients as Australia's art music community gathered in Melbourne for the 2026 Art Music Awards.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Matilda The Musical will return to Australia in 2027, opening at Melbourne's Princess Theatre before seasons in Sydney and Brisbane.

Bayker Blankenship will return to Australia in December for three headline dates in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane following his CMC Rocks QLD debut.

Gary Óg will return to Australia in October for five performances across Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, revisiting the repertoire that has defined his three-decade career in Irish rebel and folk music.

Smokie will return to Australia in February and March 2027 for a national Greatest Hits Tour spanning 11 dates and revisiting the songs that established the Bradford band as one of the defining British pop-rock acts of the 1970s.