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  • December 22, 2023By yelomusic

    Sunshine Coast Council is again hosting New Year’s Eve free fireworks displays across the Coast. The Mooloolaba event will be held from 5pm, with a range of entertainment for all. There will also be fun-filled, community-run programs at Caloundra and Coolum. In the family zone on Mooloolaba Esplanade there will be live music, children’s entertainment, face painters,

  • December 16, 2023By yelomusic

    Hold onto your hats Sunny Coast, cos it’s gonna be a wild ride the next few months! Check out what our big guns of live music have coming up. Kings Beach Tavern (Caloundra), Solbar (Maroochydore) and Woodfordia (Woodford) have pulled some seriously good acts including Beddy Rays, The Terrys, Sons of The East, Custard, Regurgitator,

  • December 11, 2023By yelomusic

    Nick Grivas fell head first into love with the spoken word as a student at Balmoral State High School. “Poetry really came to me through hip-hop, but then we did poetry in English as a subject, and that’s when I realised I had a talent,” the Maroochy River local said. “I got the highest mark

  • December 6, 2023By yelomusic

    Longtime champion of Sunshine Coast live original music and community concert events, Jay Bishoff, will host an ‘originals’ and ‘covers’ event, with feature act, The Lyrical, on December 19. Acoustic roots and hip-hop sensation, The Lyrical, will join Jay as he brings back his successful “Full Cov-Orig” events, this time at Noosa Junction’s new burger

  • December 4, 2023By yelomusic

    The vibrant shipping container playground known fondly to Sunny Coast locals as, “Nighquarter”, is set to be revitalised as “The Station”. Picture: The former “Nightquarter” site at Birtinya closed for a year after falling prey to a slow economy. Owners of the Birtinya live music venue, Chris and Lauren Hignett (main picture), who are also

  • November 29, 2023By yelomusic

    Eumundi School of Music, Anywhere Festival and The Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival have received a combined $90,000 in funding as part of Sunshine Coast Council’s Creative Industries Investment Program. The funding, which followed a rigorous application process, will support the groups for two years. Katie Noonan’s Eumundi School of Music received funds to help deliver

  • November 28, 2023By yelomusic

    Adam Niven is Solbar’s artist-in-residence this month. His show officially opens tomorrow night. The Mountain Creek designer, who moonlights as a drummer, has created designs for many local bands. Some of them include Chamber Lane, Catching Salmon, Likeside, Dunnill Blues, The Vee Bees and SUBSKRYPTION. “It will be my first solo show and I’ve put

  • November 28, 2023By yelomusic

    Sunshine Coast Council has released artists impressions of Caloundra’s new creative “heart” which is set to rejuvenate the seaside tourist suburb. The home of Caloundra Music Festival, will soon also be the birthplace of the suburb’s Community + Creative Hub, a public space connecting the town square through to Bulcock Beach with the existing Caloundra

  • November 26, 2023By yelomusic

    It’s AusMusic T-Shirt Day on November 30 and to kick it off YELO has hand-picked some of the best local music merch from our favourite Sunshine Coast artists. Fore more check out our YELO marketplace. Peace Run Records I’m a self-confessed merch freak. And this AusMusic T-Shirt Day I’ll be sporting my YELO trucker hat

  • November 22, 2023By yelomusic

    Sunshine Coast Council is being accused of monopolising the region’s events sector after announcing its annual Christmas carols event would be held the day before a major surf lifesaving fundraiser. Kawana Carols by the Beach, which is scheduled for December 17, raises much-needed money for the Kawana Surf Life Saving and Kawana Nippers programs. However,

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