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APRA Professional Development Awards 2010

Don’t miss this opportunity to kick start your music career with an APRA Professional Development Award (PDA). The total prize package valued at over $25, 000. Applications close Monday 29 November 2010. The APRA PDAs are held every two years and is given to eight emerging songwriters and composers across six categories: Popular Contemporary (3

The SMACs Are Back

The Sydney Music, Arts and Culture Awards are this city’s truly interesting annual awards, given to the artists, musos, venues, promoters, creators and culture makers who keep Sydney’s creative heart beating.

Control: Music Managers

CONTROL, the dynamic new five stage program designed to equip music managers with crucial business skills will be held in Terrigal near Sydney from November 14-17, 2010. Mid career music managers from around the country will participate and you’re invited to join in via twitter #control on 15 & 16 November. Or you can download

SOUND SUMMIT 2011 – CALL FOR FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTOR

Sound Summit is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the current Festival Co-Directors, Kirsty Brown and Chris Hearn, alongside MusicNSW on the 2011 and 2012 festivals. Sound Summit exists to provide musicians, producers, composers, promoters and fans the opportunity to interact, reflect and collaborate with each other, building communities around what they

Parklife’s Heaps Decent Donation

2010 has been a huge year for Parklife, Australia’s dance & indie music festival, which expanded its musical repertoire, added new stages and won praise as the quality festival in beautiful venues.

Bring Splendour Home to NSW

The organisers of the Splendour in the Grass festival are campaigning to bring the event back on New South Wales soil, after this year having their temporary set up in Woodford, Queensland. As one of the landowners of North Byron Parklands, a massive 660 acre site in the Byron Shire, Splendour in the Grass has