Music of Canberra

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Canberra is the federal capital of Australia and is in the Australian Capital Territory. The city is home to a number of important musical venues and institutions, including the Llewellyn Hall performance venue, part of the Australian National University School of Music. The local music scene includes many bars and nightclubs for local performers, mostly clustered in Dickson, Kingston and the City Centre. Canberra is also home to a number of music festivals, including Stonefest, the Canberra International Music Festival, and the National Folk Festival.

Popular Music

Promoters and record labels in Canberra include Capital City, Dream Damage, Hardrush Music, Hellosquare Recordings, Bad Sounds, Canberra Musicians Club, Canberra Music Workshop and Birds Love Fighting Records. Venues for popular music in Canberra include:

• ANU Bar (Lic/AA & 18+)
• Bar 32 (18+)
• The Basement (18+ & U18)
• Belconnen Youth Centre
• Civic Youth Centre (AA)
• Deakin Soccer Club
• The Folkus (Lic/AA)
• The Front Gallery & Cafe
• The George Harcourt Inn (18+)
• The Maram (18+)
• The Merry Muse (18+)
• The Old Canberra Inn (18+)
• The Phoenix (18+)
• PJ O'Reilly's (18+)
• The Pot Belly (18+)
• Transit Bar (18+)
• Tuggeranong Youth Centre
• UC Bar (18+)
• The Warehouse (AA)
• Woden Youth Centre (AA)
• Weston Creek Community Centre

Art Music

Canberra hosts the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, which regularly performs at Llewellyn Hall at the ANU School of Music. Llewellyn Hall also features subscription series from touring groups such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Musica Viva Australia.

The Royal Military College Band is based at Duntroon. Other groups that present classical and jazz concerts in Canberra include the ANU School of Music, ArtSong, Brew Guitar Duo, Canberra International Music Festival, The Canberra Jazz Club, The Gods Cafe, The Griffyn Ensemble, Guitar Trek, Salut Baroque!, Seven Harp Ensemble, Stopera, and Wesley Music Centre.

Canberra is also home to a number of community and youth ensembles and organisations including the Canberra Chamber Orchestra, Canberra Youth Music [2], Musica da Camera, Music For Everyone, and the National Capital Orchestra [3].

Musical Groups

Some of Canberra's local artists include:

• Activate Jetpack ^[1]
• Adam Hole and Marji Curran Band^[2]
• Aetoms^[3]
• Afraid You'll Fall (Formerly known as "Surrender") disbanded November 2008.^[4][5]
• Alchemist
• All guns Blazing^[6]
• Annie and the Armadillos [4]
• Armoured Angel
• The Aston Shuffle
• AstroChem^[7]
• Mr Fibby
• Band Over
• The Bedridden
• Big Dave
• Burning Years
• Carcass Brains
• Casual Projects^[8][9]
• Cat Cat
• Cool Weapon
• Corgi Crisis
• Corporate Takedown
• Dahahoo
• Distance Fallen
• D'Opus & Roshambo
• Doug
• Dubba Rukki
• The Ellis Collective
• Ernie Van Veen and Band
• Escape Syndrome
• Evilchris / NO?
• Friend Or Enemy
• Flight or Fall
• Forgery
• The Fuelers
• Fun Machine
• GasmA
• Goatfish
• Grantwho?
• Gravelrash
• GSD
• Hancock Basement
• Hands Like Houses
• Haunted Attics
• The Heroines
• Hoodlum Shouts [5]
• Howlin' Zak Daniels
• The Idea of North [6]^[10]
• Identical Strangers
• InDistrict
• Inflatable Ingrid
• Inside the Exterior
• Johnny Roadkill
• Jonno Zilber
• Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens
• Knight~Hammer
• Knights of the Spatchcock [7]
• Koolism
• LAVERS [8]
• Little Saturn
• Los Capitanes
• The Love Skulls
• Makeshift
• Manilla Green
• McClane
• Meatbee
• The Missing Lincolns
• Moots
• Murder Meal Combo
• The Naddiks
• Nightmare [9]
• Obsessions [10]
• Omartyr
• Omar Musa
• Paqman
• Penguin
• Perpetual End^[11]
• Pleased To Jive You [11]
• The Republic of Monster Elephante (formerly known as 'Fistful of Nothing')
• The Rest Is Noise
• The Robot Imperative [12]
• Rubycon
• Scatterpuss [13]
• The September Band
• Second Sun
• Selador [14]
• Sidewinder
• Sinderblock
• Sister Scarlett
• Slovac
• So Long Safety
• Something Like This [15]
• Spoil
• Starfish Hill
• Stirred not Shakin' [16]
• Stolen Exit
• Strong Like Sam
• Super Best Friends
• Switch 3
• Tactics
• Take Cover
• Tara Favell
• Tell Me Bluntly
• Templestowe [17]
• The Chuffs
• Thickshake
• Thugs and Terrorists
• Tonk
• The Tullys [18]^[12]
• Turbulence
• Vasdefferen
• The Very
• Vinyl Roads
• WASLEE (We All Sound Like Everything Else)
• West Of The Sun
• Zero Degrees And Falling
• Zwish
• ZZG

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ http://www.adamhole.com
3. ^ http://www.triplejunearthed.com/artists/View.aspx?artistid=14051
4. ^ http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gigguide/Canberra/event/29181/Afraid-Youll-Falls-Last-Ever-Show.htm
5. ^ http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/bands/Afraid_You_ll_Fall#
6. ^ Triple J unearthed artist
7. ^ http://www.astrochem.post-op.net/
8. ^ http://the-riotact.com/?p=9655
9. ^ http://australianetwork.com/nexus/stories/s1809556.htm
10. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/oztrax/stories/s1029148.htm
11. ^ http://www.perpetualend.com
12. ^ http://www.acan.org.au/mediaDisplayManager.php?todo=display&component=bio&memberID=371

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External links

• Australian National University School of Music
• Music in the ACT - Linking Music Industry Resources in the ACT
• Birds Love Fighting Records - A Canberra based record label
• Dream Damage Records - MP3 blog and an independently music label
• SOM Times - Art Music Journalism and Research, Canberra