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• Alternative Nation Festival
  Alternative Nation Festival
  Alternative Nation was a series of music festivals held in Australia in 1995. It was organised by a consortium of concert promoters, Michael Coppell, Michael Chugg and Michael Gudinski and backed by the Triple M radio network as an alternative to the Big Day Out...
  
  
• Apollo Bay Music Festival
• Aquarius Festival
  Aquarius Festival
  The Aquarius Festival was a counter-cultural arts and music festival organised by the Australian Union of Students and sponsored by Peter Stuyvesant and held at Nimbin...
  
  
• Australian Blues Music Festival
• Australian Festival of Chamber Music
  Australian Festival of Chamber Music
  The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is a ten-day international festival focused on chamber music but also featuring tours of regional and remote Australia, fine food, master classes for musicians and lecture series by international scientists themed on the Great Barrier Reef.20 to 30 chamber...
  
  
• Australian Gospel Music Festival
  Australian Gospel Music Festival
  Easterfest is a three-day music festival held in Toowoomba, Australia.Easterfest is the largest festival in Toowoomba and claimed to be the largest drug and alcohol free festival in Australia....
  
  
• The Basin Music Festival
• Bellingen Global Carnival
• Big Day Out
  Big Day Out
  The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...
  
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• Blackwood River Chamber Festival (Bridgetown)
• Blue Mountains Music Festival
• Bridgetown Blues Festival
• Canberra Country Music Festival
  Canberra Country Music Festival
  Canberra Country Music FestivalThe Canberra Country Music Festival is a 3-day event held during November with a focus on all sub-genres of country music, dance and workshops. The event was first held in 2009 at the Tuggeranong Homestead in southern Canberra. In 2010 the Festival relocated to...
  
  
• Chill City
• Chill Island
• Chopped Rod & Custom Show
• CoastFest
  CoastFest
  CoastFest is a three day music event held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia at The Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreation Camp Gwandalan on beautiful Lake Maquarie...
  
  
• Come Together Music Festival
  Come Together Music Festival
  Come Together is an all-ages Australian music festival performed at Luna Park Sydney. Beginning in 2005, it was originally two separate events, one in April and one in September. In 2006, a two-day festival was held in June , and the festival was again on the same long weekend in 2007...
  
  
• Corinbank Festival
  Corinbank Festival
  The Corinbank Festival is an annual music festival held in Canberra in Australia on the last weekend of February. It takes place over 3 days with music, theatre, art, burlesque, creative campsites, hiking and other family friendly activities and workshops....
  
  
• Darwin International Guitar Festival
  Darwin International Guitar Festival
  The Darwin International Guitar Festival is held once every two years at the Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The festival attracts many Australian guitarists including Karin Schaupp, Saffire, and Slava Grigoryan...
  
  
• Defqon.1 Festival
• Distorted Music Festival
  Distorted Music Festival
  The Distorted Music Festival was an electronic music festival held in Melbourne, Australia in 2005.It was the first festival of its kind in Australia, showcasing electronic artists who are not generally considered to be mainstream...
  
  
• Dusty Days
• Earthcore
  Earthcore
  Earthcore was an Australian outdoor dance music festival and electronic music events organisation. The outdoor events were generally held in forest environments around Victoria, Australia, with some events held in Queensland, Australia and overseas in New Caledonia...
  
  
• East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival
  East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival
  The East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, also known as Byron Bay Bluesfest, is an annual music festival held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  
• Easterfest
• Endless Festival
• Cyber Tribal Exodus Art and Music Festival ,Bald Rock.

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• Festival Of The Sun
  Festival of the Sun
  Festival of the Sun is an annual outdoor music festival held in December at the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park[1], Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  
• Fairbridge Festival
  Fairbridge Festival
  Fairbridge Festival of World and Folk Music is Western Australia’s most popular family camping festival which takes place annually in April. It is a friendly celebration of folk, roots, blues, acoustic, celtic, a capella and world music in a traffic-free, self-contained bushland site at Fairbridge...
  
  
• Falls Festival
  Falls Festival
  The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia since 1993.It lasts four days, from 29 December to 1 January each year. The headline acts play mostly over two evenings, 30 December and 31 December...
  
  
• Fat As Butter
• Fisher's Gig
• Field Day
• Foreshore Summer Music Festival
• Future Music Festival
• Frances Folk Gathering - SA - February
• Freedom Festival
• Four Winds Festival
• Global Gathering
  Global Gathering
  GlobalGathering is an annual dance music festival by Angel Music Group. Festivals are held in countries such as the UK, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and feature leading electronica artists from across the globe...
  
  
• Golden Plains
• Gone South
  Gone South
  Gone South was a music festival in Tasmania, Australia. It has been held in both Launceston and Hobart at various times. It has been promoted by local Hobart businessman Charles Touber, and more recently in conjunction with Karen Henderson....
  
  
• Good Vibrations
• Groovin the Moo, Maitland, Bendigo & Townsville
• Greenfest, Brisbanehttp://www.greenfest.com.au
• Gympie Muster
  Gympie Muster
  The Gympie Music Muster is an Australian country music festival held in Gympie, Queensland. It was started as a community fundraiser in 1982 and has grown to a six-day festival attracting musicians from Australia and elsewhere. The 2011 Gympie Muster attracted a crowd of 60,000....
  
  
• The Great Escape
  The Great Escape (festival)
  The Great Escape was a music festival held at Newington Armory, located within Sydney Olympic Park that took place in 2006 and 2007. Initially held over the Easter long weekend for the first two events, in 2008 it was announced the festival would take place on the Labour Day weekend, however the...
  
  
• HeatWave ***NEW SUMMER CAMPING FESTIVAL***
• High Voltage
• Homebake
  Homebake
  Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup . The festival was first held on 4 January 1996 at Belongil Fields in Byron Bay, on the far north coast of New South Wales...
  
  
• InterVarsity Choral Festival (Australia)
  InterVarsity Choral Festival (Australia)
  The Australian InterVarsity Choral Festival is an annual event in which members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia and the national capital Canberra meet for two weeks to rehearse, socialise and perform combined concerts...
  
  
• Laneways
• Live at the Zoo
  Live at the Zoo
  Live at the Zoo is a music festival held over the Easter long weekend at Monarto South Australia that started in 2008. It lasted from 10 to 13 April and was the first multiple day music/camping festival in South Australia. The event consisted of 4 stages...
  
  
• Livid
  Livid
  Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival held annually from 1989 to 2003. Masterminded by Peter Walsh and Natalie Jeremijenko, the original idea of showcasing both the arts and music in the one event was standardised as late as October/early November from 1991 until 2003...
  
  
• LoveJam - Spread the Love!
• Broadford Rock Concert

M-O

• Melbourne International Jazz Festival
  Melbourne Jazz Festival
  The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival held in Melbourne, Australia from 4 - 13 June 2011.-History:The Melbourne International Jazz Festival was first held in 1998....
  
  
• Meredith Music Festival
  Meredith Music Festival
  The Meredith Music Festival is a three-day outdoor music festival held every December at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, a natural amphitheatre located on private farmland near the town of Meredith in Victoria, Australia...
  
  
  • List of Meredith Music Festival lineups by year
• Metal For The Brain
  Metal for the Brain
  Metal for the Brain was Australia's largest heavy metal music festival. The event was held in Canberra annually, usually towards the end of the year, and featured Australian bands almost exclusively...
  
  
• Metalstock
• Mildura Country Music Festival
  Mildura Country Music Festival
  The Mildura Country Music Festival is an annual Australian country music festival based in Mildura, Victoria. In 2005 it was sponsored by Telstra Countrywide...
  
  
• Moomba
  Moomba
  Moomba is Australia's largest free community festival and one of the longest running festivals in Australia. Held annually in the city of Melbourne, Australia, Moomba is celebrated during the Labour Day long weekend , and has been celebrated since 1955...
  
  
• Mount Beauty Music Festival
• MS Fest
  MS Fest
  MS Fest is a music festival, held annually in Launceston, Tasmania Australia since 2006.It is a single day event, held in February or March on a Saturday....
  
  
• National Celtic Festival
• National Folk Festival
• Nannup Music Festival
  Nannup Music Festival
  The Nannup Music Festival is a live performance music festival showcasing primarily folk music, but also other styles...
  
  
• Narara Music Festival
  Narara Music Festival
  The Narara Music Festival was an outdoor music festival held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1983 and 1984. Despite the name, it was actually held at Somersby, a short distance from Narara.- 1983 :...
  
  
• Nariel Creek Folk Festival
• Newcastle Music Week
• No Sleep Til Festival
  No Sleep Til Festival
  The No Sleep Til Festival was a music festival that was held across Australia and New Zealand in December 2010. The Festival was headlined by Megadeth, who played their album Rust in Peace in its entirety. Other bands included were NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, and Parkway Drive...
  
  
• Offshore Festival
  Offshore Festival
  The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia in the late 1990s, 2000 and 2001. It was run by the same organisers as the Falls Festival, held at nearby Lorne on New Year's Eve. It interlinked with the major...
  
  
• Open Arms Festival http://openarmsfestival.com/
• Ostara festival
• Overcranked Metal Festival

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• ParkJam - Hip Hop Festival
• Parklife Festival
• Peats Ridge Festival
  Peats Ridge Festival
  Peats Ridge Festival is a sustainable arts and music festival, held in Glenworth Valley, Peats Ridge, 1 hour north of Sydney and 90mins drive from Newcastle, New South Wales. Established in 2004, one year after the passing of the founder of the Glenworth Valley Horse Riding facility, the Festival...
  
  
• Planetshakers
  Planetshakers
  Planetshakers is a Christian youth movement that began as an annual conference and grew into an international ministry and large church in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was born out of Paradise Community Church in Adelaide, South Australia by Pastor Russell Evans...
  
  
• Playground Weekender Festival
• Port Fairy Folk Festival
  Port Fairy Folk Festival
  The Port Fairy Folk Festival is a popular annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia....
  
  http://www.portfairyfolkfestival.com/
• Pushover Festival
• Pyramid Rock Festival
  Pyramid Rock Festival
  The Pyramid Rock Festival is a New Year's Eve camp-out rock music festival at Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.Beginning in 2004, it runs over two nights with two stages - the Main Stage, and the Pharaoh's Annex...
  
  
• Rainbow Serpent Festival
  Rainbow Serpent Festival
  The Rainbow Serpent Festival is a large electronic music, art and lifestyle festival, located in Victoria, Australia. The festival is mainly known for Psychedelic trance and Minimal Techno music, but also features other genres of electronic music and non electronic music in the smaller stages...
  
  
• Raggamuffin Music Festival
  Raggamuffin Music Festival
  Raggamuffin Music Festival is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which concluded its first tour in 2008. As of 2010, it has featured fourteen Major international reggae Acts and thirteen Australasian Acts accommodating reggae, funk, dub, hip-hop and soul.- Line...
  
  
• Redhill Country Music Festival
• Reggaetown Festival
• Rewind 80s Festival Australia
  Rewind 80s Festival Australia
  The Rewind 80s Festival Australia was a music festival due to take place at Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The festival was a plannned expansion of the very successful Rewind Festival that is held in England, to have been held for the first time in Australia...
  
  
• River Sessions Festival
• RoyalDoof Festival
• Rock-It Festival
  Rock-It
  Rock-It is an Australian music festival held at the Arena Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The festival was first held in 1999, and mainly features modern rock music...
  
  
• Rollercoaster
  Rollercoaster (Australian festival)
  Rollercoaster is an annual Australian music festival held at the western foreshore at Mandurah in December. The festival mainly features modern rock music....
  
  
• Share the Spirit
• Shore Thing
• Solar Stomp (Mandurah
  Mandurah, Western Australia
  Mandurah is the second-largest city in Western Australia and is located approximately south of the state capital, Perth.The city attracts a large number of tourists, including many international visitors...
  
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• Sonfest
  Sonfest
  Sonfest was an annual 3–4 day Christian music festival held in Boonah, Queensland, Queensland, Australia from 2000 to 2005.The event was created by record executive Dale Bray and creative director Steven Dix...
  
  
• SoundFest
• Soundscape Festival
• Soundwave Festival
• Soundwave Revolution
• Southbound
  Southbound (festival)
  Southbound is an arts, camping and music festival. A variety of Australian and international artists perform at this event. The festival occurs annually, early January, at the Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Western Australia.-History:...
  
  http://sunsetevents.com.au/Event/Southbound_2007/?Display=145/
• Southern Roots Festival
  Southern Roots Festival
  Southern Roots was an annual music festival in Australia, held in Hobart, Tasmania. Similar to the Big Day Out, it is common that the well-known headlining acts will play on the outdoor "Main Stage" which overlooks the venue, and the lesser known acts will perform on the indoor "Pavilion Stage"...
  
  
• Splendour in the Grass
  Splendour in the Grass
  Splendour in the Grass is an annual Australian music festival held in July at Woodford, Queensland, and previously held at Belongil Fields, outside Byron Bay...
  
  
• St Jerome's Laneway Festival
  St Jerome's Laneway Festival
  Known simply as the Laneway or St. Jerome's Festival, the music festival began in Caledonian Lane in Melbourne in 2004. Emerging as an indie music event, the Laneway Festival has grown rapidly in popularity, receiving favourable reviews in music press....
  
  
• Stereosonic
  Stereosonic
  Stereosonic is an annual music festival held in Australia in early December. From its humble beginnings, Stereosonic has become a relatively big music festival in Australia. Stereosonic is held in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne. Stereosonic is a collaboration of two major Australia...
  
  
• Stompen Ground
• Stonefest
  Stonefest
  Stonefest, once called Stone Day, is a large music festival, held at the University of Canberra annually at the end of October. For many years Stonefest was the largest music festival in Canberra and a popular one in Australia...
  
  
• Subsonic Music Festival
• Summadayze
  Summadayze
  Summadayze is an annual Australian music festival held in the month of January.-2008:*Groove Armada Soundsystem *David Guetta feat Chris Willis*New Young Pony Club*Steve Angello & *Sebastian Ingrosso*Felix Da Housecat...
  
  
• Summersault
• Sunset Sounds
• Survival Festival
• Sunbury music festival
• Trackside
• Taste of Chaos
  Taste of Chaos
  Taste of Chaos is a hardcore tour that was started in the winter of 2005 by Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful Warped Tour along with friend and business partner, John Reese. The Taste Of Chaos tour caters for fans of the post-hardcore, screamo, and metal genres, while offering the same...
  
  
• Tamworth Country Music Festival
  Tamworth Country Music Festival
  The Tamworth Country Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and is a celebration of Australian country music culture and heritage. The festival lasts for two weeks during late January and during this period the city of Tamworth comes alive, with...
  
  
• Thredbo Blues Festivalhttp://www.thredboblues.net.au
• Thredbo Jazz Festivalhttp://www.thredbojazz.net.au
• Triple J's One Night Stand
  Triple J's One Night Stand
  Triple J's One Night Stand is a concert hosted in a remote town or city in Australia annually. It is promoted and organised by national radio station Triple J. In previous years, the host town was selected in the form of a competition where residents of the town must gain approval from local...
  
  

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• V Festival (Australia)
  V Festival (Australia)
  The Australian V Festival was an Australian music festival, and a spin-off of the British V Festival. Like all V Festivals, the event was primarily sponsored by Virgin Mobile. In Australia the event was also sponsored by airline Virgin Blue. The V Festival was televised exclusively in Australia by...
  
  
• Village Fair
  Village Fair
  Village Fair is an annual music festival located in Bathurst, Australia which first started as a community Festival for students from rival dormitories of Charles Sturt University, Bathurst campus, in 1974...
  
  
• Wandong Country Music Festival
  Wandong Country Music Festival
  The Wandong Country Music Festival is an annual country music festival held in Wandong, Victoria, north of Melbourne, Victoria.Started in 1972, Wandong was once Australia's largest country music festival, but dwindling crowds in the 1980s lead to its cessation until 2001, when the modern version...
  
  
• Wangaratta Festival of Jazz
  Wangaratta Festival of Jazz
  The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz is an annual festival of jazz and blues held in the town of Wangaratta, 2.5 hours from Melbourne in North East Victoria, Australia. It has become the premier jazz event in Australia and is renowned internationally....
  
  
• Warehouse Music Festival
• We Love Sounds Winter Festival
• West Coast Blues & Roots Festival
  West Coast Blues & Roots Festival
  The West Coast Blues 'n' Roots Festival is an annual music festival held in Fremantle, Western Australia. It features many blues and roots performers, both international and local.-History:...
  
  
• What Is Music
  What Is Music
  What Is Music is an experimental music festival held in Australia. It originally emerged in Sydney in 1994 as a platform to expose unusual contemporary musical forms that were otherwise unknown to the general public at that point in time...
  
  
• Woodford Folk Festival
  Woodford Folk Festival
  The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual music festival held near the small country town of Woodford, 72 km north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the biggest annual cultural events of its type in Australia....
  
  
• WOMADelaide
  WOMADelaide
  WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival, which was first held in 1992 in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the WOMAD series of music festivals. WOMAD events are a showcase of different sorts of music, arts and dance. They encourage people to experience the music of...
  
  
• York Jazz Festival
• Yackandandah Folk Festival - Unknown but great.

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