Brisbane Music Trail set to make its debut

Queensland Music Festival, which delivers the Queensland Music Trails program, has banded together with two other premier music and cultural festivals BIG SOUND and Brisbane Festival to deliver the first Brisbane Music Trail to be held 1st to 23rd September 2023.

Joel Edmondson, Chief Executive and Creative Director, Queensland Music Festival shares “we want to carve out the month of September as the time every year that people from around Australia and the world come to Brisbane to experience a diversity of world-class, homegrown events and venues that can’t be enjoyed anywhere else.

“It’s thrilling to be able to partner with our finest arts, culture and entertainment organisations to deliver this massive program.”

With its debut, Brisbane Music Trail will bring to Brisbane an Australian exclusive on 16th September with Sweet Relief! featuring some of the best dance, electronic and live acts from Australia and around the world including The Avalanches and Groove Armada.

The Brisbane stop on the 2023 Queensland Music Trails program is supported by the Queensland Government’s $20 million investment which is designed to deliver increased tourist visitation numbers, support entertainment and hospitality jobs and boost local economies.

The Queensland Music Trails showcase a vast array of music in stunning locations across Queensland including so far in 2023 four trails in the Outback, Southern Queensland, Scenic Rim and Mackay.

Last weekend the Reef Trail featuring Busby Marou performing at Cape Hillsborough Beach at Mackay was a sellout with more than 1200 people attending the two concerts on a remarkable beach setting – a quintessential Queensland experience.

QLD Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch notes “Queensland Music Festival’s Brisbane Music Trail is an exciting addition to Queensland’s cultural calendar and shines a light on Brisbane as a hub for dynamic and innovative music events and a drawcard for Queenslanders and visitors to the state.

"The Brisbane Music Trail is being realised through an innovative partnership between leading Queensland arts companies, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, and QMusic to bring together world-class home-grown and impactful events in a collaboration that firmly puts Brisbane on the map as a music city.

“The Trail provides an important cultural tourism boosting platform that celebrates our brilliant artists alongside major national and international talent in new live music events like Sweet Relief, across Brisbane Festival’s diverse and rich month-long music programming, and as part of the iconic BIGSOUND music industry conference and showcase.

“The Queensland Music Trail initiative amplifies Queensland’s reputation for delivering outstanding live music events as we look to celebrate our unique arts and cultures on the global stage ahead of the Brisbane 2023 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

For more information, head to the Queensland Music Trails website

Image top: Groove Armada Isle of Wight Festival 2023;  image above: The Avalanches