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Paul Kelly leads the Red Hot Summer Tour 2026 line-up alongside Missy Higgins, The Cruel Sea, The Cat Empire, Kasey Chambers, and Jess Hitchcock, with Batemans Bay added to the run of shows.

Paul Kelly has unveiled The Body Keeps The Score, the latest single from his new album Seventy, due 7 November. He will headline Red Hot Summer Tour 2026 alongside Missy Higgins, The Cruel Sea, The Cat Empire, Kasey Chambers and Jess Hitchcock.

The Red Hot Summer Tour is set to turn up the heat in 2026 with a scorching all-Australian line-up headlined by one of the nation’s most iconic and enduring singer-songwriters, Paul Kelly.

The Cat Empire have a stack of shows coming up for August and September with special guests Little Quirks.

The Cat Empire will perform a free concert of Federation Square in Melbourne on Saturday 22 March to launch the new album ‘Bird of Paradise’.

When The Cat Empire’s first album reached no 15 on the Australian chart and the second went to number one there was no-one more surprised than them. The Cat Empire were not set up as a “op” band. They were jazz musicians playing jazz music in late night bars in Melbourne and the audience loved it.

Bluesfest has added another 18 acts including Kasey Chambers, Xavier Rudd, The Cat Empire and Hilltop Hoods.

The Cat Empire have a brand new song ‘Blood On the Stage’ and a video to go with it.

The Cat Empire have postponed their three upcoming shows with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after the MSO cancelled pianist Jayson Gillham over comments he made about journalist killed in Gaza.

The Cat Empire will perform with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in August and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in September.

The Cat Empire have been one of the hit tickets for Twilight at Taronga at Taronga Zoo in Sydney for 2024.

Twilight At Taronga, James Morrison, The Whitlams, Ball Park Music, The Cat Empire, live music, Taronga Zoo, Australia,

The Cat Empire have a new song ‘Money Coming My Way’ and an album coming their way in August.

Now that The Cat Empire is no more, Felix Riebl has a solo album coming. The first taste is the title track of the album ‘Everyday Amen’.

Australian Countertenor Max Riebl has died at from cancer at the age of 30.

The Cat Empire will be no more after their Bluesfest show. Bluesfest will be the final show for The Cat Empire.

The Cat Empire have announced their break-up.

The sold-out The Cat Empire and The Teskey Brothers show for February 28 is all systems go for February 28.

Live music, Covid safe Summersalt shows will return to Victoria in 2021.

Canberra has scored a SummerSalt date in February.

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

Regional Touring will present Amy Shark, The Cat Empire, John Butler, The Beautiful Girls and Stella Donnelly for To The Point on 7 November.

The Cat Empire are initiating Lockdown Get Down, a movement to help musicians increase available income to survive these turbulent times.

Mavis Staples, Rhiannon Giddens and The Cat Empire lead a United Nations of artists for Womadelaide 2020.

The Cat Empire play their next round of Australian shows in October and November with proceeds going to Children’s Ground.

Queenscliff has delivered one of its best first line-ups in years with Missy Higgins, Tim Finn, Troy-Cassar-Daley and The Cat Empire just some of the names set to play.

Jessie Lloyd and her Mission Songs Project is the recipient of the International Touring Grant from The Cat Empire and The Australia Council for the Arts.

Major new titles coming this week from: Drake, Avril Lavigne, Heart (Live), Millencolin, RY X, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Florida Georgia Line, India Arie, Kiss (GH), The Beasts (of Bourbon), Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, The Cat Empire, Methyl Ethel, Betty Who and the WOMAD 2019 & Triple J’s Hottest 100 Vol.26 compilations.