Campbelltown Arts will feature quality live music from around the globe every Saturday from 7 October until 11 November with its spring season of Café Carnivale. Café Carnivale is Sydney’s most popular world music program, presenting authentic and inspiring music performances from some of Australia’s best world music performers. Wine, dine and be inspired by

The Australian Music Prize Ltd has been established to create an Australian music industry prize which promotes the health and growth of the local industry both here and abroad. Artists will be encouraged to enter The Amp through the incentive of a large cash prize (provided by its partner, PPCA), with which they can further

For Immediate Release – September 27, 2006 2006 International Songwriting Competition Deadline Quickly Approaching – Have Your Songs Heard By Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Robert Smith (The Cure), Craig Morgan, Cassandra Wilson, and Many More! The deadline for ISC is quickly approaching, so enter your songs now! Entries must be postmarked on or before October

The Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme is the Australian Government’s principal financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters. The scheme is administered by Austrade and is aimed at encouraging small and medium sized Australian businesses to develop export markets by reimbursing up to 50 per cent of eligible export promotion expenses above a

VROOM – The Resource of Original Music now has a Myspace. Help promote this fantastic resource to bands all over Australia and become our friend, maybe even make us one of you top 8-24 friends!!!! Not sure what VROOM is? www.vroom.musicnsw.com VROOM is an extensive searchable database that contains venue information including production, facilities, booking

The Sydney Youth Music Network is a place where Bands, Artists, Promoters, Agents, Managers and any other Industry types can connect with other associates in the western suburbs of Sydney. SYMN is currently taking applications from Industry workers between the age of 16 and 35 for this special all day conference to be held at

The Play Now Act Now Creative Competition is on again. Play Now Act Now is a film/video, graphic design and writing competition for young people aged 16 to 25 in NSW. Play Now Act Now is a health education initiative that invites young people to produce creative resources that examine issues around the usage of

Want help to put on your all-age gigs? Are you a young person aged 12-25? Do you want to organise all-age entertainment in your community? Are there five other young people in your area who want to help make it happen? Look no further! Indent — The hub for all-ages entertainment in New South Wales

4-6 October 2006 (school holidays) Katoomba Primary School, Katoomba Youth INclusive, YAPA’s 2006 youth conference is all about young people’s participation in government at all levels: local, state and federal. It’s an opportunity to learn how government actually works and how governments involve (or should involve) young people. It’s also about how to make people

PPCA – The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia – collects royalties which arise out of the playing of recordings on radio. This is separate to what APRA do, which is collecting songwriter’s royalties for songs which are played on the radio (and in other public places). PPCA would like to remind all artists that if