The Great Divide

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.

Irish singer-songwriter Dave Lofts will join The High Kings for their 13-date Australian tour in October.

Kentucky singer-songwriter Ian Noe has announced his third studio album, ‘Canyon Falls Trailer Band’, a 16-song concept record built around the story of an imaginary group chasing a breakthrough performance. The album will be released on 25 September through Thirty Tigers, with the first single, ‘The Heidelberg Fisherman's Ball’, available now.

Don McLean has expanded his Australian tour celebrating the 55th anniversary of American Pie, adding a Geelong performance and confirming Australian artists Gaudion and 1927 as support acts for selected dates.

Acclaimed American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III will tour Australia and New Zealand in February 2027, marking his first performances in the region in almost two decades.

Port Fairy Folk Festival has revealed the first group of artists for its 50th anniversary event, confirming a mix of international and Australian performers for the 2027 gathering in regional Victoria. The festival, which will run from 5 to 8 March 2027 over the Labour Day long weekend, marks half a century since the inaugural event was staged in the coastal town of Port Fairy in 1977.

Australian folk songwriter Leah Senior has unveiled “Two Weeks”, the final advance track from her forthcoming fifth album Pt. Roadknight, due for release on June 19 through Third Eye Stimuli in Australia and SPINSTER in North America and the UK. The song arrives ahead of a national tour and offers one of the album's most direct reflections on the changing social landscape of Victoria's coastal communities.