FLIGHT is a showcase featuring the new generation of Naarm’s best artists, featuring 14 acts from First Nations and culturally diverse backgrounds.

Caisha Sprout, a Melbourne-based songwriter, brings a unique blend of blues, soul, and funk through her earthy sound, reflecting the Australian experience and aiming to inspire listeners from all backgrounds.

Shane Lestideau, violin, and Donald Nicolson, piano, explore the Scottish Fantasias of Australia’s Baillie Collection. This is the music that entertained audiences in Rockhampton and Brisbane’s Wintergarden Theatres in the first decades of the 20thC, blending virtuosic showmanship with beloved Scottish tunes. Played on a fiddle that had been part of the Baillie family for generations, this program recreates the sound world of the travelling entertainer and the delight of those who came to hear it.

Eclectic fiddling styles, driving rhythms, soaring melodies, and joyful performances. Trad tunes interwoven with contemporary Australian tunes in inventive arrangements.

Uptown Jazz Cafe is doing a takeover of Fitzroy Town Hall and bringing Eamon McNelis’s Skellingtons Quartet and Paul Williamson’s Hammond Combo to the Ballroom.

Uptown Jazz Cafe is doing a takeover of Fitzroy Town Hall and bringing Eamon McNelis’s Skellingtons Quartet and Paul Williamson’s Hammond Combo to the Ballroom.

There is no celebration here. As you read this, women and girls around the world struggle against legally enshrined gender inequality and discrimination.

PBS is thrilled to welcome the return of Rock A Bye Baby this July, back at the Fitzroy Town Hall.