Event Type: Performances

Karaoke meets Contemporary Dance in a celebration of Music and Movement

Performance :
Thursday 3 July 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 8:00pm – 9:00pm

Duration : 1 hour | NO Interval

Tickets :
General Admission $29

Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE) is turning 20, and they’re marking the occasion in true Festival of Voices style – with song, dance, and an invitation for you to take centre stage.

Sing For Me! is a dance karaoke experience like no other. As you step into the space, you’ll be welcomed by an MC and presented with a playlist of 20 iconic songs. The choice is yours: pick a track, take the mic, and sing your heart out. As the lyrics light up the screen, the MADE ensemble brings the music to life with stunning choreography, transforming your song into a unique dance performance.

Each song on the list has its own specially crafted routine – some performed as solos, others as duos, and some featuring the full ensemble. Whether it’s a heartfelt ballad, a power anthem, or an all-out party tune, Sing For Me! is here to take you on a journey through time, evoking memories and making new ones in the process.

So, warm up those vocal cords, embrace the nostalgia, and get ready for a night of music, movement, and pure joy. Come for the karaoke, stay for the dance – and let yourself go.

“By making their bodies articulate, the women of MADE expand our notions of how older Australians might live, not simply how they might dance.”
– Island Magazine

A Tribute to Cinema’s Timeless Soundtracks 

Performance :
Thursday 3 July 2025
Doors Open 5:00pm | Performance from 6:00pm – 7:00pm

Duration : 1 hour | NO Interval

Tickets :
General Admission $35

**This event is now SOLD OUT. If you wish to be added to the waitlist, please email info@festivalofvoices.com with your phone number.
You can still see the Velvetones perform as part of Showtime! and Cheers to 20 Years**

Step into a world where the magic of Hollywood’s iconic film scores meets the power of live vocal harmony. The Silver Screen Classics event celebrates unforgettable moments from both classic and modern films, performed by The Velvetones, one of Australia’s premier vocal a cappella quartets.

Take a nostalgic journey through some of the most beloved films and musicals as The Velvetones bring cinematic hits to life with their signature blend of jazz, pop, and Broadway-inspired vocal arrangements. From heartwarming ballads to lively tunes, the Velvetones’ dynamic harmonies and flawless execution will transport you through the ages of the silver screen – from the glamour of classic films to the vibrant energy of modern movie music. Featuring music from beloved films such as The Sound of Music, The Blues Brothers, Love Actually, and more, this performance has something for everyone.

As part of Festival of Voices 2025 – celebrating 20 years of extraordinary singing and music – this special performance offers a rare chance to experience iconic movie moments like never before. Whether you grew up with these timeless classics or are discovering newer favourites, this event promises to deliver the same magic that made these songs unforgettable.

With multiple award wins and performances at prestigious festivals like the Melbourne International Singers Festival and the Adelaide Fringe, The Velvetones are known for their exceptional vocal harmonies and captivating stage presence. This performance is set to be one of the highlights of the 2025 festival season – perfect for film buffs, jazz lovers, and anyone seeking an evening of unforgettable entertainment.

Join us for an evening of cinematic nostalgia and world-class music that you won’t want to miss.

Bob Brown’s Life told trough his poems, set to music

Performance :
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Doors Open 6:30pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Duration : 1 hour | NO Interval

Tickets :
General Admission $39

On the 42nd anniversary of the moment that changed the course of Tasmania’s environmental history – the stopping of the Franklin Dam – Festival of Voices is honoured to present But Then…, a moving and deeply personal musical event from one of the country’s most revered conservationists.

Bob Brown needs no introduction. His voice has echoed through decades of activism, courage and change. But what many don’t know is that Bob is also a poet – his words are often described as tender, lyrical, and steeped in the quiet power of reflection.

But Then… brings those poems to life. When musician and producer Steve Crump first heard Bob’s poetry, he was struck by the emotional honesty within them and asked whether he could put it to music – Bob agreed and so began a remarkable collaboration.

This premiere performance features Bob Brown reading his poems and sharing stories from across a lifetime, interwoven with music composed and performed by Steve Crump (piano), the extraordinary Monique Brumby (vocals and guitar), and Kate Calwell (cello). Together, they trace an autobiographical journey through music, memory, and meaning.

Join us for an intimate evening of song, storytelling and reflection — one that offers a rare glimpse into the heart and history of an Australian icon.

“What an uplifting way to spend 31 minutes. With a great man. No wonder my late partner Tony was for all of his adult life in love with you for what you did for championing diversity, but more for the passion you have for the natural world. Exquisitely moving collaboration between Bob and Steve Crump (and other wonderful contributors).”
– Greg Leong – praise for BobBrownAudiobioraphy Vol 1

Sat 21 June, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$28 +bf each
$52 +bf for 2 x tickets
$91 +bf for 4 x tickets

Salamanca Jazz is Live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane, with 
Elly Hoyt, Damien Kingston and Julius Schwing.

Saturday 21st June 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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Hoyt-Kingston-Schwing feature the stunning voice of Elly Hoyt alongside two sublime guitarists, exploring the delicate balance between density and space, harmony and unison. Their music—rooted in spontaneity and playful interaction—unfolds like a rich tapestry of sound. The performance will include brand-new original works, distinctive interpretations of jazz standards and contemporary jazz repertoire.

Elly Hoyt is a Tasmanian-born composer and vocalist recognised for her innovative contributions to jazz and indie-folk music. She has released three acclaimed jazz albums and her composition “New Orleans” has garnered over one million streams on Spotify. Elly has performed in Australia, Europe, USA, and China. Hoyt’s accolades include a Bell Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, the Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship, being a finalist in the Freedman Jazz Fellowship, and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship to study a Master of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA.

Damien Kingston is a Hobart-based guitarist and jazz composer who has released six albums of original music as a bandleader with the Damien Kingston Quartet. His work has been published by both independent and established labels, including Scratch Match Records and ABC Jazz. Damien has presented his music throughout Australia and toured internationally across Europe.

Julius Schwing is an improvising guitarist and composer from Bruny Island. He has performed in Australia, Europe, India, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. Julius has been nominated three times for the prestigious Freedman Jazz Fellowship and placed third in the 2022 National Jazz Awards. Recently, he was awarded a State Luminary APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award and has released nine albums.

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Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre.

Tickets are only $28 ea +BF, or buy two tix for $52+BF, or buy four tix for only $91+BF.

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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is support by Arts Tasmania’s 2025 Arts Projects Fund.
Salamanca Arts Centre is grateful for this support via Arts Tasmania and the Minister for the Arts.

Opening Event :
Wednesday 20 August 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Exhibition Dates :
Wednesday 20 – Monday 25 August 2025
11:00am – 4:00pm daily

Improvised Performances @ 1:00pm daily

Palimpsest-as-Process by Andrea Breen questions the processes of art-making, in the gallery and by showing work that has already been ‘transformed’.

Palimpsest-as-Process will interrogate how we make decisions around discarding or reinventing art & how art practices might celebrate the processes of creativity. Andrea Breen has spent the past twelve months re-inscribing & reimagining extant texts from her oeuvre of previously shown creative work, including paintings, collages, drawings, poetic texts & acoustic compositions. 

The exhibition will include sound installations (in the gallery space and on headphones), and ‘in-gallery’ change processes. Visitors will be invited to offer contributions.

Improvised performances (collaborations and solo) are programmed for 1:00pm each day in the gallery. 

Recordings and art work will be available for sale on request.

Fri 13 June, 2025
7:30pm – 10:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$19 + bf

Welcome to the Global Sounds Salamanca series, live in the Founders Room on Woobys Lane.

XIXA (pronounced ‘Chi-cha’) is an infectious nine-piece Cumbia sensation, bringing tropical sounds made for dancing!
Viva la Cumbia!
Viva Xixa!

Friday 13th June 2025
Doors & bar open at 7pm
Music from 7:30pm 

The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre 

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XIXA was born out of the ashes of a pandemic.
Cumbia is their rhythmic pulse, made for dancing, but they’ll throw in a power ballad for a quick breather.
Xixa’s horn section will get you moving, guitar and bass will set your soul ablaze, keys will transport you to the tropics, and rhythmic percussion will sync your heartbeat with one another’s.
Grab your dancing orthotics, bring your friends, bring your auntie and let’s make some memories!
Viva la Cumbia, Viva Xixa!

XIXA is pronounced ‘Chi-cha’ after the amazonian style of Cumbia that is known to hail from Peru – chicha. This somewhat psychedelic style of Cumbia was a way for traditional Andean music to remain current with younger audiences.
This style is loose, fun and very seriously full of quirky sounds.
XIXA is a bunch of amigos who used to play cumbia together in Chupacabra, after a few years of dedicating time to other projects we decided to get back together to play cumbia and have some fun. 

Xixa formed in the lul that was the 2020 pandemic and have performed in festivals and events around southern Tasmania.
Cumbia is designed for dancing and having a good time, we throw in a power ballad or two to give you a quick breather. Horns, guitar, keys and rhythmic percussion join forces to give Tasmania Xixa!

XIXA is: Elias Solis – CONGAS, LEAD VOCALS  | Aaron Entresz – GUITAR  | Oliver Plapp – BASS | Thomas Webster – KEYBOARD, ACCORDION, VOCALS | Eduardo Venegas – DRUM KIT, TIMBALES, VOCALS | Jaime Anabalon – GUIRO, VOCALS | James Verral – TRUMPET | David Cavallo – TRUMPET | Adam Davenport-Hortle – TROMBONE

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Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 7pm

Music begins at 7.30pm
The Founders Room on Woobys Lane
Salamanca Arts Centre.

Tickets are only $19 ea +BF

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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is supported by Arts Tasmania’s 2025 Arts Projects Fund.
Salamanca Arts Centre is grateful for this support via Arts Tasmania and the Minister for the Arts.

Performanes :
Sunday 8 & Monday 9 June 2026
Doors Open @ 6:30pm | Performance from 6:45pm – 7:15pm

Duration : 30 minutes | NO INTERVAL

Tickets :
Flexible Ticket (pay as you can) $19 – $50
Concession $14

Tickets are limited. We recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.

Standing Event or bring a cushion and sit on the ground surrounded by the incredible works of artists from the Art for Takayna residency

In a unique and breathtaking installation, for the first time in Australian arts history, a grand piano was placed in a threatened forest in Takayna for pianist Dave McEvoy to compose music and help save Takayna’s ancient landscapes from mining and logging.

Now, you’re invited to immerse yourself in David’s compositions, created during his time in the threatened Que Forest. Experience this 30-minute sound journey as Dave plays a grand piano in the Long Gallery, surrounded by powerful artworks from our Art for Takayna residency, created by artists who spent time in Takayna: one of Earth’s last wild places.

Opening Event :
Thursday 5 June 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Exhibition Dates :
Friday 6 – Saturday 21 June 2025
10:00am – 6:00pm daily

Join us for Bob Brown Foundation’s Art for Takayna 2025 exhibition. A curated exploration of Takayna, combining artistic expression with environmental advocacy.

Featuring fine art and performance works inspired by the region’s diverse landscapes and ecosystems, this exhibition showcases artists’ work depicting the significant landscape of Tasmania’s Takayna.

This year, one hundred artists travelled from every state in Australia to Tasmania’s Takayna for the 11th annual Art for Takayna residency hosted by Bob Brown Foundation.

The residency hosts each year’s artists to sit and gather inspiration for 5 days in this incredible landscape under threat from logging, mining and recreational vehicle use. 

From the windswept dunes on the west coast, to the rugged mountains and Gondwana rainforest valleys, artists were led by Bob Brown Foundation’s campaigners and scientists on a deep immersion like no other. 

In a unique and breathtaking installation, for the first time in Australian arts history, a grand piano was placed in a threatened forest for pianist Dave McEvoy to compose music to help save Takayna.

Pianist Dave McEvoy travelled from South Australia to compose and record music every day on the grand piano in an untouched rainforest on Forestry Tasmania’s logging schedule.

“My experience making music in this ancient place has given me an overwhelming sense that the forest is holding out a lifeline to us as a species. Takayna is home to one of the world’s last great temperate rainforests—a globally significant ecosystem—and I think we need to do everything we can to preserve it for the well-being and survival of future generations” – Dave McEvoy

Also joining the residency was one of Australia’s most famous political cartoonists, Jon Kudelka, who spent four days immersed in the rainforests threatened by mining company MMG’s proposed tailings waste dump.

“Takayna is a miracle of nature which the original owners managed to avoid clearfelling or poisoning with mine tailings for tens of thousands of years. Having been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, I feel a certain affinity with it, though I could hardly be described as a miracle of nature.

A few days in the rainforest making art was a tonic for me and I understand why people are willing to devote their lives to protecting it. Unlike my particular strain of cancer, which would require a medical miracle to cure, Takayna can be protected with a World Heritage listing and becoming a National Park, an entirely achievable result requiring basic good faith and a small amount of imagination.

If I manage to beat the odds and survive another twelve months, and Takayna hasn’t been vandalised beyond recognition for toilet paper and a tip, I would love to visit again. If you’re not convinced, go and take a look” – Jon Kudelka.

“The global heirloom of Takayna must have parliamentary leaders declare it a World Heritage-listed National Park. Our artists’ residency has recruited another cohort of ambassadors who will broadcast the urgent call for its protection through their art” – Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation Campaigns Manager

Event :
Friday 23 May 2025 (straight after Rektango)
Doors Open @ 7:20pm 
Music from 7:30pm – 10:30pm

Tickets : $10
Tickets available at the Door (cash or EFT)

*This is an 18+ Event*

Always danceable, always fun. Always dark eighties.
The Cure, Simple Minds, Stranglers, Devo, B52s – that sort of thing.

Help us get ready for the winter with special guests Foucault a’ GoGo.

Carefully timed straight after Rektango but before Dark Mofo!
Good practice?

Performances :
Saturday 12 July 2025
Matinee @ 2:00pm
Evening @ 7:30pm

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

Duration : 75 minutes | NO Interval

Tickets* :
Adult $36
Concession $28

This production is suitable for all ages.

*Tickets can be purchased online up until performance time.

The celebratory and joyous story of the first women’s cricket match in Australia.

“If they’re playing cricket, who is making the sandwiches?”

In Bendigo in 1874 two women’s teams play cricket for the very first time in Australia! Money is raised for charity, the women are praised for their sporting endeavours and then – all hell breaks loose – as the press decide (surprise, surprise) that women should stay home, know their place and sit down.

Written by Christine Davey and presented by award-winning regional theatre company – Skin of our Teeth Productions – this joyous, musical, and uplifting story explores this event and what it means for all of us. These glorious women have been lost to history, and it’s time to bring them back to centre stage where they rightfully belong.

Join us for a tale of extraordinary women doing extraordinary things and the very ordinary men who tried to stop them.

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Skin of our Teeth Productions is a regional, female and disability-led theatre company celebrating diversity.