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Review: Tkay Maidza

Overgrown vines and glittering trophies covered the small stage in Brisbane Festival Treasury Arcadia’s Spiegeltent. Light bounced around reflecting off the mirrors that laced the edge of the circular room. An eager, tightly packed crowd gathered at the centre. TKAY MAIDZA stepped out on to the stage wearing the biggest smile and dressed head to toe in white and silver. She literally shone against the dark stage like a beam of light. After her opening number, the first words out of her mouth were “I really didn’t…

BPM Opens Bris Fest

Ball Park Music played one of their first paid gigs at the QUT Uni Bar. Their rate for the night was 50 bucks, for the whole band. Except somehow in the mist of what I am sure was a fun but slightly novice set, they did not get paid. Flash forward 10 years, and that same bunch of Brisbane kids are sitting backstage at the Riverstage barely 100 metres from that uni bar, listening to Ruby Fields and San Cisco amp up an already buzzing…

Megan Washington & Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Don’t miss one of the defining two time ARIA winning Australian female singers of our age in this magnificent orchestral collaboration on the 28th of September in concert hall.