Get your dividends ready and your accounts receivable cos this is gonna be the office party of the year! After a hit international tour with her show "Out of Office" and appearing as a finalist on Ru Paul's Drag Race Down Under, Karen From Finance is getting back to her roots and returning to Thursgay! The original Lip Sync For Your Pint Hostess, Karen started performing with Thursgay in 2013 and now it's time for her triumphant return to launch her new single! She will be joined by Bettie Rose & Henny Spaghetti, Hotpink, Faunish, DJ Sal, DJ Ruby, Cherubimbaby & Pi$ces Bitch. It's the End of The Financial Year as we know it...
For one night only on Thursday 30th June at the Magdalen Laundry at Abbotsford Convent history will collide the past and the present while weaving the future through many voices on one mic.
Dance in the dark. Dance like no ones watching! We’ll turn off the lights and crank up the tunes to release all inhibitions, move moods and work up a wild sweat – all completely sober. Since 2009 NLNL has seen more than 500,000 people get their groove on.
PBS is thrilled to welcome the return of Rock A Bye Baby this June! It’s been too long between babychinos, and we’re kicking things off with a bang.
Join us at the new venue of Collingwood Town Hall for a live set from Ajak Kwai and her band! All ages are welcome.
Rainbow House Club invites you to a very special Leaps & Bounds Festival edition of “tinkle - A Free, Queer Piano Bar”! Your host and piano-babe Ronnie Rai is joined by special guest vocalists Krayola, 2Joocee and Edie Centric for a magical night of music - and you’re invited to join in!
FREE EVENT
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their Wednesday residency at Uptown, stretching the tunes of the bop masters Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Tad Dameron, Miles Davis and beyond. One of the most remarkable ensembles to come out of the Melbourne be-bop tradition in a long time.
Just as the original Taco Truck packaged up the flavour of Mexico & brought it to the people, The Bandwagon packages the flavour of an intimate jazz/music club & brings it curb-side featuring some of Yarra’s young musical talent, including The Switches, Charlie & The Rolfes, Upsleeve Trickery, and bands presented by Yowo Music.
FREE EVENT
The Push’s Music Careers Expo is a free, one-day event for high school-aged young people to discover, learn and plan their careers in the Aussie music industry.
FREE EVENT. REGISTER HERE
Leaps and Bounds Festival and Corner Hotel present a special screening of Her Sound, Her Story. This captivating documentary showcases over 40 women and gender diverse artists from across five decades of Australian music, celebrating their achievements and impact on the industry. More pressingly, it addresses how the inequities of the industry have impacted them.
Bring it Home, welcomes all older people to dress up to the nines and step out to join our musical party. Reminiscent of A Prairie Home Companion, Bring it Home features traditional live music, with special guests, stories, belly laughs, delicious snacks, sing-alongs, dancing, radio plays, interviews and more.
FREE EVENT. REGISTER HERE
Monday Night Metal at the Oldie.. featuring HACKER, BURN THE HOSTAGE and GRAVITATE.
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This year Yarra is staging an INDUSTRY DAY in appreciation of the work of not just musicians, but the entire kaleidoscope of freelancers and small businesses who keep the live music sector playing.
Estaria Eluxe make their Gasometer debut partnering with Leaps and Bounds music festival. An all-day party split across two rooms showcasing multiple creative elements from all female and gender non - conforming artists. Music from local selectors Darcy Justice, Jazz, Rev Lon, Selena and Miscmeg. Live art by Luka Lesosky-hay and Jasmine Jafari and visual installations by Ricta. Come indulge in all that Estaria Eluxe has to offer on the 26th of June at the Gasometer.
Prepare to be inspired on the 26th of June by some of Australia’s greatest hit songwriters all performing the collaborative works and songs written with Gerry Smith.
Featuring Jake Mason (hit ‘This Girl’) Eric McCusker (‘Come Said The Boy’, State Of the Heart, Mondo Rock), Jessica Paige APRA award winning songwriter and the one and only Gerry Smith.
Don't Thank Me Spank Me! is an avenue for exploration of the most fabulous kind. Honest to a T and feminine to a fault, this duo combines immaculate vocal harmonies, guitar and violin for a full bodied RNB/Pop experience. Colourful, glamorous and raw, Esther Henderson and Nitida Atkinson are a force to be reckoned with. With their whacked out songs of country girl grit and good-boy romances, DTMSM will leave you giddy with groove and wishing for more.
FREE EVENT
Outlaw Winter Wonderland is here to warm your hearts over the cold dark months with a celebration of Australia’s finest country, roots and Americana music. Featuring The Warner Brothers, Jess Parker, Queenie, Duncan Philips and Kerryn Fields.
As well as some of the best live music on offer, Outlaw Winter Wonderland features a tap-takeover by our partners and favourite brewer Wolf of the Willows, the Outlaw Market and delicious Texas cuisine by Roadhouse Barbecue.
Rockhopper Records has gathered their friends to bring you an afternoon of popping tunes and pop-up stalls. This is your chance to bop along to Melbourne’s best emerging pop artists including Eilish Gilligan, Nat Vazer, Yi-Lynn, Stella Farnan, and Audition Tape.
Q+ is coming to the Collingwood Town Hall.
Q+ at Leaps and Bounds is a day-to-night free outdoor event that welcomes the whole rainbow community and their friends.
Leaps & Bounds and MzRizk present an all-ages matinee show with the HALO Vocal Ensemble and Eliza Hull performing live at The Corner Hotel and you’re all invited!
A show that welcomes all music lovers including parents, guardians, their children, and those that prefer a daytime concert of epic proportions!
Raave Tapes (NSW) live on the Yah's bandstand, thanks to Leaps & Bounds Music Festival... Having recently relaunched of our live music program, we've partnered up with Leaps & Bounds Music Festival to present Raave Tapes (NSW) live on our bandstand for Friday July 24th! The Newcastle natives are loading up the tour van to bring their brand of crunchin’ electro-rock to the City of Yarra… Lead by the scuzzed-out riffage of bassist Lindsay O'Connell, it's a raucous live show that's not to be missed!
The legendary bassist of SPAWN Jewel De Gelder has passed away 31th of May from her battle with cancer. To celebrate her musical journey as well as our friendship, with the help of Tote and Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, SPAWN has put on this special event in tribute to her. All proceeds for SPAWN will be donated to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Center.
Special guests: Sarita and her band, BENG Special Lighting: Electric Light Brigade
Laundry Bar + Leaps and Bounds Festival Presents: Girls To The Front (GTTF)
Featuring: Sacredd, Sofie Roze, MZ Burn, Viliani Hosted by Fresh Violet.
Something Fishy is a triple-billed night of live music celebrating the women of Melbourne's Alt/Indie music scene. We’re kicking off the fun with Party Pest, Baby Mullet just not giving a f*#k in the centre, and acclaimed soloist Rya Park as the headline act!
Cumbia Lunar’s 5th edition it’s a psychedelic celebration of dance, visuals and live music featuring the top bands, Dj’s and Vjs of Naarm/Melbourne’s Latin alternative music scene with: AMARU TRIBE - ft. Ethnodancer Kathleen Gonzalez.
Come and experience the magic of no less than 6 great songwriters over three acts at Jimmy Hornets. Featuring John Fox, Alanna Eagan and Peter Baylor and The Well Oiled Machine Band.
BRIGGS record label presents the Bad Apples House Party featuring performances from BARKAA, Kobie Dee and Chasing Ghosts. BRIGGS established the label to genuinely nurture and support Blak Excellence, this will be your chance to celebrate with some of the label's roster at this exclusive event.
Q+ is coming to the Collingwood Town Hall.
Q+ at Leaps and Bounds is a day-to-night free outdoor event that welcomes the whole rainbow community and their friends.
In September 2021 Melbourne lost a great champion of community radio and alt-country music. For more than 40 years David Heard broadcast programs on his beloved PBS 106.7FM, right up until he passed away at the age of just 65.
Syzygy Ensemble is an award-winning contemporary music group based in Melbourne. Since forming in 2010 they have gained a reputation as one of Australia’s finest new music ensembles, lauded for their virtuoso precision, innovative programming, and ability to connect viscerally with their audiences.
Now in it's 14th year, Mr. McClelland's Finishing School is Melbourne’s favourite long-running indie/pop night for those who love dancing to music!
We’re excited to celebrate music in all its forms as part of the Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, Sunday 3 July at the Collingwood Town Hall, and get your booty shaking.
City of Yarra presents three works by First Nations artists for NAIDOC Week. Curated by the Centre for Projection Art in partnership with Agency Projects, the artworks of Jazz Money, Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu and Dr. Christian Thompson AO will be projected on the Richmond Town Hall and in the courtyard of Collingwood Yards from 3-10 July.
Presented by Studio J and Sapphire Dance, this dance extravaganza will take you through the many regions of India, featuring dance styles unique to each area.
Getting the band(s) back together! Join us for a trip down memory lane – aka 1990s Brunswick Street – as we pay homage to the musos who helped shape the Melbourne music scene.
FesTavares is a celebration of connection, culture and creativity in the Collingwood community. Highlighting the naming of Tavares Lane after Antonio Tavares, the first non-indigenous person of colour and first person from public housing to have a street named after them.
Storytime with the Reginas, a punk-inspired, raucous and frank, feminist comedy cabaret show at iconic Hare Hole. The Reginas are politically engaged, sometimes enraged and refuse to be enslaved in a society that can accept and condone misogynist values.
Evelyn Hotel, Leaps And Bounds and Emma Volard are proud to present this years Creme De La Femme. This is a night of some of the best emerging artists Naarm has to offer featuring Emma Volard, Ebiphe Komang (SOLO) & Special Guest DJ's.
With a focus on female driven performances within heavier genres, the night is set to electrify audiences with some of Melbourne’s finest, crash hot, up-and-coming artists.
Through Power To You, Bar Open aims to provide a platform for female artists of heavier genres to deliver an energetic performance set to fire up the limbs of City Of Yarra residents this Winter featuring Georgia Knight, Foggy Notion, and Sandy Dish.
Enjoy an evening of dancing and live music at this Cinderella-themed ball, presented by the Melbourne Colonial Dancers Inc. MCD Inc. is a not-for-profit association that has been meeting weekly since 1974.
Leaps and Bounds Festival and Bad Decisions present QUEERS TO THE FRONT!
A night celebrating LGBTQI+ artists with Bands, Drag and Alternative/Heavy/Punk DJ's
Porpoise Spit are rounding up the rats at Nighthawks for Leaps and Bounds! With mates Way Shit and Lick Lash on the 2nd of July- this will be a doozy. Doors are at 8pm and you can buy tickets on the door for $15. See you there ratbags!
In collaboration with Leaps & Bounds Music Festival, Glamorama invites one of Melbourne's most renowned live techno musicians to push the boundaries of the genre through our top of the line Funktion-One sound system.
Our secret headliner is the one and only Honeysmack! Join us as an absolute icon brings his live techno acid set under the lasers for a floor shaking and ground stomping riot.
Featuring support sets from Indicia and Sindy, two innovative artists making strong moves within the dance-music scene.
Australia's contemporary South Sudanese songstress, Ajak Kwai brings her stunning, distinctive vocals to The Tramway Hotel for Leaps & Bounds Festival, 2022.
At first there was rock, then there was Dad-rock. The Fitzroy Pinnacle is proud to present Dawn of the Dad, a dad-rock themed mini-fest featuring some of Naarm’s favourite queer, femme and gender-non conforming artists.
Time to dust off ya New Balances, fire up the BBQ and grab us a beer out of fridge will ya mate? Dad-Rock is taking over the Pinnacle on Saturday 2nd July with the help of Zig Zag, Hearts and Rockets, Laura Imbruglia (duo), Tali Mahoney and Loveboner, all of whom will be taking the Pinny stage to play their favourite dad-rock banger. We’re talking Steely Dan, a bit o’ Dire Straits, whatever makes you wanna grab the fish fingers out of the freezer and pretend to resent the family cat.
Is that “Does it look like I’m made out of money?!” we hear? Never fear, Dawn of the Dad is free! A free event in this economy? Bargain! See you at the pub.
FREE EVENT
Its Winter Spin Record Store Party and Wah Wah Records have live in store performances by Georgia Rodgers and Sienna Wild 👍👊👌along with sales!
FREE EVENT
Produced by Mary Mihelakos ‘Fitzroyalty’ programmed by Mary Mihelakos will celebrate the soul, funk, blues and hip hop legends of Brunswick street, featuring Spoonful, Swingin’ Sidewalks, Acapelicans, and more.
Winter Spin - a festival within a festival @leapsandboundsmusicfest celebrating live music at record stores throughout the @cityofyarra. Licorice Pie are proud to have @stroppiesband and @kosmetikamuzika_ along for the ride! Kicking off at 3.
FREE EVENT
Sonic aGender and Leaps and Bounds are stoked to announce Rah! Rah! #2.2: a feminist punk retrospective of Melbourne music! This sequel event continues the narrative Melbourne feminist punk - as an ideology, a practice and a sound - over the past four decades.
Bringing together generations of female and gender diverse artists from Melbourne’s punk rock scenes, Rah Rah#2.2 will be staged on Saturday 2nd of July as part of this year’s Leaps and Bounds Festival. Indulge in an arvo session of talks panels and intimate performances, this time in the regal surrounds of the Rosina Auditorium at the Abbotsford Convent.
Northside Records are celebrating 4 local labels with an hour DJ SET each, with representatives from Research Records, Hope Street Recordings, College Of Knowledge Records and NORTHSIDE RECORDS they will be playing releases and inspirations -
Come down for a dig. WE ARE OPEN FROM 11-6pm with the DJs from 1pm - 5pm.
3 SPECIAL CRATES of SECOND HAND RECORDS will be out JUST FOR THE DAY.
PRIZES FOR THE BEST DANCERS
FREE EVENT
This Saturday 2nd July the City of Yarra is celebrating Leaps and Bounds Festival and has asked us to join the party with something of our own. From 12-5pm on the decks you will hear the out there sounds of Roundtable records, Lullabies for Insomniacs & La Sape records. Since these guys release albums we love and are people we admire, we couldn't imagine a better sound track for the day.
FREE EVENT
Winter Spin Yarra’s Winter Record Store Party Hot off the heels of the 15th birthday celebrations of Record Store Day, Leaps and Bounds Music Festival gives you another chance to party across Yarra’s record stores.
Featuring Yi Lum, A.Well (Twelve) and Ed Kent (Natural Selection).
FREE EVENT
Sky Diver Records features some great earworms for your wintry Saturday record store party from 12-6pm Andras (Beats in Space), Phil Stroud (Good Company/Deep Water), Izabel (Lullabies for Insomniacs), Hibachi Anne Hasegawa on the controls.
FREE EVENT
Winter Spin Yarra’s Winter Record Store Party Hot off the heels of the 15th birthday celebrations of Record Store Day, Leaps and Bounds Music Festival gives you another chance to party across Yarra’s record stores.
FREE EVENT
Winter Spin Yarra’s Winter Record Store Party Hot off the heels of the 15th birthday celebrations of Record Store Day, Leaps and Bounds Music Festival gives you another chance to party across Yarra’s record stores.
Join us on Saturday July 2 with an array of live in-store performances, records & merch, and a BBQ hosted by Billy from Anti Fade Records. Featuring Maple Guider (solo), Teether & Kuya Neil and Parsnip.
FREE EVENT
In conjunction with Yarra City Council, Oh Jean! Records are participating in Winter Spin, celebrating record stores in the area.
Although we had live music organised, Covid affected the performances so we have decided to just push forward with our sale instead.
Today we have 10% off storewide and 20% off boxsets. Anyone that spends over $100 goes in the raffle to win one of 5 x $50 vouchers. Instore only! And go…
FREE EVENT
The Gem Bar & Leaps and Bounds Music Festival present, for the first time in the same room, SKID CITY & THE PRIZE.
SKID CITY are known around town for their good time rock n' roller tunes hammered out by members of Rot TV, Peak Twins and Summer Flake, and brought home by snotty vox courtesy of a bottle-blonde gentleman named Zeke. They released their debut record 'Greetings from Skid City' earlier this year through Shipping Steel records.
THE PRIZE are Power Pop and Garage Rock personified and not to be missed. Plus Rockin' DJ Annaliese Redlich (Neon Sunset 3RRR) all night.
FREE EVENT
One year after the COVID cancellation of the original IN CLOUDS, Moor Music and Leaps & Bounds are back with a sacrilegious sonic sermon of biblical proportions — IN CLOUDS
Resurrected and reimagined over 8 hours and across two spellbinding stages, IN CLOUDS will showcase the holy vanguards of Melbourne's underground music scene, with a procession of the city's highest-flying live-music angels performing in all their gossamer glory.
Melbourne International Jazz Festival and Leaps and Bounds Music Festival present a night of Afro Jazz and beats at the Abbotsford Convent.
After a hugely successful collaboration in Burnley Park over summer, Yarra is teaming up with Melbourne Int’ Jazz Festival again for an unmissable night of body-moving music.
Queenie releases her debut single ’The End’ with a full band, supported by Aussie cow folk ballad daddy diva Leroy MacQueen.
Richmond Town Hall will host a dynamic projection and sound work centred on renowned Hungarian composer Franz Liszt’s music, which is full of experimental spirit and improvisation. Rhythm and Line has been re-adapted exclusively for Richmond Town Hall by Tokyo based artist duo Flightgraf.
Remembering Liszt, On the Situation of Artists, and on Their Condition in Society.
Our fave local indie record label and makers of magic, Flightless Records, are extremely proud to present; Flightless & Friends at the Collingwood Town Hall Ballroom on Sunday June 26th.
Vocalism, drum and tactile synthesis. Three concerts in the Oratory featuring YL Hooi, Bhairavi Raman, Lyra Pramuk (US/DE), Fabulous Diamonds, Adam Gołębiewski (PL), Eva Birch with J, and Alexandra Spence. Sunday evenings through July at Abbotsford Convent from Liquid Architecture.
Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is celebrating NAIDOC Week 2022 and embracing the theme of Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! and we’re excited to present a special screening of the documentary Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow.
Q+ is coming to the Collingwood Town Hall.
Q+ at Leaps and Bounds is a day-to-night free outdoor event that welcomes the whole rainbow community and their friends.
Join national treasure, award-winning actor, Aboriginal elder and activist Uncle Jack Charles for an evening of truth, love, laughter and legendary storytelling. As befits the runaway popularity of A Night With Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack will be joined by surprise special guests on the night.
Get ready for a wonderful radio adaptation of the ground-breaking promenade play The Dirty Mile.
With an all-First Nations cast, re-live the experience of strolling down the streets of Fitzroy, and hearing the stories of those that created the Koori community that initiated the first Blak Services in Australia.
Tongberang’i Ngarrga Inc warmly invite you to their 2022 NAIDOC celebrations featuring an all-Aboriginal line-up of DJs, performers, artists, comedians and storytellers.
Q+ is coming to the Collingwood Town Hall.
Q+ at Leaps and Bounds is a day-to-night free outdoor event that welcomes the whole rainbow community and their friends.
Julia and Brian will be bringing their unique brand of entertainment to showcase local artists and highlight the unique Australian musical voice of our First People.
Special guests and the RocKwiz OrKestra will make this show one not to miss.
Q+ is coming to the Collingwood Town Hall.
Q+ at Leaps and Bounds is a day-to-night free outdoor event that welcomes the whole rainbow community and their friends.
Hear the water swirl and flow. Its currents chanting all around you. The rivers are singing now, in the first and last light of the day.
City of Yarra presents three works by First Nations artists for NAIDOC Week. Curated by the Centre for Projection Art in partnership with Agency Projects, the artworks of Jazz Money, Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu and Dr. Christian Thompson AO will be projected on the Richmond Town Hall and in the courtyard of Collingwood Yards from 3-10 July.
Homophonic! is bringing the disco ball to the Fitzroy Town Hall and celebrating the long and proud history of queer musical artistry with a program written by, for, and about lgbtiq+ victorians.
Vocalism, drum and tactile synthesis. Three concerts in the Oratory featuring YL Hooi, Bhairavi Raman, Lyra Pramuk (US/DE), Fabulous Diamonds, Adam Gołębiewski (PL), Eva Birch with J, and Alexandra Spence. Sunday evenings through July at Abbotsford Convent from Liquid Architecture.
Fia Fiell is the moniker of Vietnamese-Australian electronic musician, synthesist, composer and pianist Carolyn Schofield. Drawing on her classical training, she performs as a keyboardist on multiple synthesisers, playing and processing them in real time to create otherworldly and unsettling soundscapes that meld lush melodic cycles and ecstatic drones.
Combining four of Melbourne’s most versatile and in demand musicians, Croissants & Whiskey brings a new energy to ancient instruments as part of Leaps & Bounds + Beyond 2022. At their debut solo concert, Croissants & Whiskey celebrates the joy of making music together in a fascinating, diverse program of Australian music, both old and new.
Australian pianist Coady Green and British pianist Christopher Smith both had successful concert careers in London before relocating to Australia several years ago. In Australia, they are the only pianists to have performed the six Hungarian Rhapsodies that Liszt prepared for four hands from the orchestral versions.
David Hood will provide a pre-concert talk on the music of Liszt and provide a reflection on having Liszt as a musical companion over many decades & touching on nationality; Liszt’s creative journey & importance; & the odd trickster moment, during his long life.
Nat Bartsch is a genre-bending pianist and composer blending neoclassical and jazz to create lyrical, beautiful music. In 2017, Nat became a mother and created a suite of lullabies, inspired by Max Richter’s Sleep album and the children’s genre-crossing of the Teeny Tiny Stevies. Influenced by music therapy research and her son’s stages of development, Nat composed a series of pieces designed to encourage babies to sleep.
Vocalism, drum and tactile synthesis. Three concerts in the Oratory featuring YL Hooi, Bhairavi Raman, Lyra Pramuk (US/DE), Fabulous Diamonds, Adam Gołębiewski (PL), Eva Birch with J, and Alexandra Spence. Sunday evenings through July at Abbotsford Convent from Liquid Architecture.
FLIGHTGRAF invite you to meet the team, introduce some of the works they have produced and explain how they are made, especially the connection between sound and graphics.
For two days, Abbots Yard will be showcasing the best Winter warming entertainment, cuisine and performers at our cosy urban oasis in the heart of Abbotsford.
Richmond Town Hall will host a dynamic projection and sound work centred on renowned Hungarian composer Franz Liszt’s music, which is full of experimental spirit and improvisation. Rhythm and Line has been re-adapted exclusively for Richmond Town Hall by Tokyo based artist duo Flightgraf.
Remembering Liszt, On the Situation of Artists, and on Their Condition in Society.
Hear the water swirl and flow. Its currents chanting all around you. The rivers are singing now, in the first and last light of the day.
