Thursday 12
6pm • The Red Dusty Road: A Celebration of 40 Years on the Road with Bunna Lawrie and Coloured Stone + After Party, Darebin Arts Centre
6pm • Rat Child, Wesley Anne7.30pm • Tago Mago’s Opening Night Party featuring Maggie May, Steve Smart + more, Tago Mago8pm • Kickin’ The B at 303, Hammond Sessions: Buttered Loaf, Bar 3038pm • Lake Minnetonka, Open Studio8pm • Think Thursdays: Josh Kelly Trio, Think Thornbury9pm • Balkan Jam, Farouk’s Olive
Friday 13
6pm • Fat Cousin Skinny, Wesley Anne7.30pm • Peter Marjanovic and Byzantine Blue Balkan Dance Party!, Open Studio8pm • Dirty Lopez and His Sax Mambo, Farouk’s Olive8pm • Riflebirds & The Woodland Hunters, Wesley Anne8.30pm • Bohjass ‘Silent Scream’ Album Launch + Slipper, Bar 3039pm • Mick Daley’s Corporate Raiders + Jimmy Dowling + guests, Tago Mago
Saturday 14
11am • O’Stranger-Tang! – Improv Song and Rhyme, Open Studio12pm • Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Croxton Hotel12pm • Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Tago Mago12pm • The Megaphone Project, Bundoora Homestead12pm • True North Dance Alliance, Edwardes Lake Park1.30pm • She Folk – Songwriters in the Round, Northcote Social Club2pm • Choral Feast !!, Salvation Army Thornbury2.30pm • Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir Presents the Songs of The Staple Singers, Thornbury Theatre4pm • Quadrifid, Farouk’s Olive5pm • Nitida and Band, Open Studio5.30pm • A Night of Women @ Lentils, Lentil As Anything6pm • The First Baboon Civilisation (trio), Wesley Anne6.30pm • Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Croxton Hotel7.30pm • Dandelion Wine, Garden and Sangara, Northcote Uniting Church – Chalice7.30pm • Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir Presents the Songs of The Staple Singers, Thornbury Theatre7.30pm • The Band Who Knew Too Much, Open Studio8pm • OPA! Bato and OPA! Seko, Farouk’s Olive8pm • Tim Easton (USA) + Weeping Willows + Jimmy Dowling + Josh Seymour, Tago Mago8pm • Tim Solly + guests, Wesley Anne8pm • Wendy Rule, Bar 3038.30pm • Custard, Northcote Social Club
Sunday 15
12pm • The Megaphone Project, Bundoora Homestead12.30pm • I Can’t Keep Quiet – Shaking The Tree, Northcote Uniting Church – Chalice2pm • Lost In Louisville, Open Studio2pm • Paul McManus & The Mayblooms, Wesley Anne2.30pm • The Boîte presents ‘Rhythms of Life 2’ with Alárìíyá and CaribVic Steel-band, Northcote Social Club4pm • Cimarron, Bar 3034pm • Maggie May, The Thornbury Local5pm • Parlour Opera – A Night of Seduction, BK Opera5pm • The Houndlings + Dan Dinnen, Open Studio6pm • Pérolas, Wesley Anne7pm • King River Rising + Beautiful Moana, Bar 3037pm • The Delvenes + Ruth Hazleton, Tago Mago8pm • Blunderbuss – Break Fast and Mischief, Open Studio
Monday 16
10.30am • High Street Bells Choir – Sing With The Bells’, Northcote Uniting Church – Chalice7.15pm • Preston Symphony Orchestra – Open Rehearsal, Preston City Hall8pm • Open Studio Cajun Dance Party, Open Studio8pm • Wind It Up – free live music every Monday at NSC, Northcote Social Club8pm • Yarra Banks Jam, Bar 3038.30pm • I Can’t Keep Quiet – Expressive Women, Northcote Uniting Church – Chalice
Tuesday 17
7am • The Megaphone Project, All Nations Park6.30pm • Tago Mago Special Festival Open Mic, Tago Mago7.30pm • Peanut Noir Musical Comedy Variety Show, Bar 303
Wednesday 18
8pm • Shipwrecked – Fiona Claire, James Bellew and Tracy Bell, Tago Mago8.30pm • Julien Wilson’s ‘Beeforchicken’, Bar 3038.30pm • The Schadenfreude Club, Open Studio
Thursday 19
11.30am • The Megaphone Project, Henderson Park4pm • Decibels Indie Acoustic Session, Reservoir Community and Learning Centre, Youth Lounge6pm • Danny Ross, Wesley Anne6.30pm • Life Is A Song, Thornbury Theatre6.30pm • The Taste of India: Folk Feast 2017, Darebin Arts Centre7.30pm • Darebin Music Feast Songwriters’ Award Grand Final, Northcote Town Hall – Studio 18pm • Kickin’ The B at 303, Hammond Sessions: Cookin’ On 3 Burners, Bar 3038pm • Miss Colombia and The Electropical Orchestra, Open Studio8pm • Pete Lyrebird + guests, Wesley Anne8pm • Soundtracks for Imaginary Films featuring Ladie Dee, Claire Birchall, Michael Plater and Ill-Gotten Booty, Tago Mago9pm • Shock Octopus EP Launch with All Truism, Farouk’s Olive
Friday 20
2pm • The Megaphone Project, Northcote Town Hall – Civic Square6pm • Bob Hutchinson, Wesley Anne6pm • You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: Confidence in the Music Industry, Open Studio7.15pm • THROTTLE, Northcote Town Hall – Studio 18pm • Lisa Crawley + Herriot Row (NZ), Wesley Anne8pm • Sansonus + Karate Boogaloo + Uncomfortable Science, Bar 3038.30pm • Joyride, Northcote Social Club9pm • The Beat Taboo + The Vibrajets + guests, Tago Mago9.30pm • Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies, Open Studio
Saturday 21
8am • The Megaphone Project, Preston Market9am • Crate Digger Record Fair, Preston Market1pm • Georgia Brooks Swingtet – Swing Dance Party, Open Studio2pm • At The Hop with Bobby and the Pins, Northcote Town Hall – Studio 15pm • Tim Pledger Quartet, Farouk’s Olive6pm • Mana, Northcote Town Hall – Main Hall6pm • Zoë Fox, Wesley Anne6.30pm • Darebin City Brass Annual Cabaret, Preston City Hall7pm • Decibels Artist Showcase, Reservoir Community and Learning Centre8pm • Copperhead Brass Band & Jam Jar, Wesley Anne8pm • OPA! Bato and OPA! Seko, Farouk’s Olive8pm • Polaris + Belle Haven + Deadlights + Daybreak, Northcote Social Club8pm • The Good Minus + Mijo Biscan + Joel Checkley, Bar 3038pm • Hello Tut Tut – World Music Dance Party, Open Studio9pm • Intoxica + Claire Birchall & The Phantom Hitchhikers + guests, Tago Mago
Sunday 22
12pm • The Reservoir Stomp, Preston Reservoir Bowls Club1pm • The Royal High Jinx – Gypsy Balkan Final Feast Fiesta, Open Studio1.30pm • The Orbweavers – Album Launch with Biddy Connor + Dave Williams, Northcote Social Club2pm • Fake Sibling, Wesley Anne2pm • Sunday Strings & Song, Northcote Town Hall – Studio 13pm • Buck Mulligan’s Whiskey & Jam Session, Buck Mulligan’s3pm • Songcatcher: A Tribute to Appalachian Music, Tago Mago4pm • Josh Johnstone + Wally Howlett & The Chest Hairs + Tim Woodz & The Dirty Shoes, Bar 3035pm • It don’t mean a thing, if you ain’t got that swing!, Open Studio5pm • Tago Mago’s Closing Night Party featuring Riflebirds + Ruth Hazleton + guests, Tago Mago5pm • Tim Pledger Quartet, Farouk’s Olive6pm • Alister Turrill, Wesley Anne7pm • Mayfield, Open Studio7.30pm • The Hip Streets + Miles Henry Trio, Bar 303
