Queensland Music Festivals Guide 2025
Our Queensland Music Festivals Guide guide serves up the best in live music and entertainment from across the sunshine state. So round up your besties for a festival experience like no other. Just don’t forget to pack the suncream, cold bevies, and a sense of fun!
Queensland festivals are renowned to experience extreme weather – have you ever woken up in a tent under the blazing sun? Not so fun.
Or maybe you’ve spent days rolling around in knee-deep mud with your mates…. OK, now that is kinda fun.
Either way, we don’t the weather gods dictating your musical future, and have you miss out on seeing your favourite bands.
Summer in Australia goes hand-in-hand with icy-cold froths, finger-licking soul foods, open-air spaces, great people, and of course live music.
From the much-loved Woodford Folk Festival to the “Last Ever (But Not Really)” 36th Bluesfest, we serve up the best in our state’s South-East corner.
The Yelo Mag: Queensland Music Festivals Guide covers the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Gold Coast, and sometimes – beyond!
Where We Belong Festival, June 28
Where: Redcliffe Area Youth Space, Redcliffe, Moreton Bay
Price: Adult $45
More than 14 local rock-music heavyweights including Brisbane punk band Butterfingers headlining played to 500 people at Where We Belong in Redcliffe last year. This year, Frenzal Rhomb are headlining! It was Tribe Clubhouse’s first live music festival and the second is expected to be sizzling hot!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.
The Big Weekend, July 12
Where: Blackflag Brewing, Coolum, Sunshine Coast
Price: From $66
Sunshine Coast rockstar Pricey’s The Big Weekend 2025 lineup includes: Goons Of Doom, The Beefs, Pricey, Drop Legs, Dellacoma, Whitts End, The Phosphenes and The Lipsticks.
The event sold out last year with appearances from Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets, The Bennies, Brixton Alley, and local acts Chamber Lane, Catching Salmon, and Harlum.
Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/the-big-weekend.
Gympie Music Muster, August 23-September 1
Price: Adult $485 (four days). Kids under 12 free. More prices here.
The first Gympie Music Muster was held in 1982 as a celebration of the Golden Guitar win by the Webb Brothers. It has since grown into one of Australia’s most-recognised fundraising events, returning more than $20 million to community groups and charities.
Owned by the Apex Club of Gympie, the Muster has seen more than 2500 performances, including Australian country royalty Slim Dusty, who has a camping area named in his honour.
The last Muster saw its highest-ever attendance, with 50,000 people recorded.
Tickets: https://www.muster.com.au.
BIGSOUND Music Festival, September 2-5
Where: Various venues, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Price: $49 (2024 one night) or $89 (2024 three nights)
BIGSOUND is the southern hemisphere’s biggest music industry gathering with 150 artists across three nights of entertainment. The future of music is discovered here, with the festival giving some of the biggest names in Australian music their start, including; Flume, Rufus du Sol, Gang of Youths, Lime Cordiale, Tash Sultana, Tones and I, and more.
Tickets: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/cdf8e8f3-87b1-41c3-92fc-3d59e987baee.
Sweet Relief!, TBA
Where: Ballymore Stadium, Herston, Brisbane
Price: $49.50 (2024 price)
Sweet Relief! is a festival of music, art and performance. In it’s second year, the music festival brings more than 12 acts to Brisabne and is a nostalgia-fuelled celebration of dance floor hits, led by the icons behind them. Artists in 2024: Kelis + The Presets.
Tickets: moshtix.com.au/v2/event/sweet-relief-2024.
Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest, TBA
Where: Kandanga Creek, Gympie (40 mins drive from Noosa)
Price: (2024 price for one day) $120 or $300 (2024 price for three days)
Hosted on a private 100-acre property the in Noosa hinterland’s Mary Valley, the Mitchell Creek Rock ‘N’ Blues Fest is an adventure-filled, three-day festival of rock blues and roots music. With free camping, two alternating stages, and more than 120 artists, this festival is popular with families and those wanting to escape the city rush.
Tickets: https://www.mitchellcreekrocknbluesfest.com.au.
Promiseland, TBA
Where: Doug Jennings Park, Main Beach, Gold Coast
Price: (2024 $182.50 one day) or $425.00 (2024 three day ticket)
Promiseland is touted as Australia’s biggest multi-cultural music festival, with around 80 acts from multiple genres, showcasing the culturally diverse, invigorating and effervescent sounds from popular Australian and global music. This year it’s over three days. Expect music such as Afrobeats, Amapiano, Reggae and R&B.
Tickets: https://www.promiselandau.com/
Listen Out, TBA (September/October)
Where: Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Price: (2024 price $202.90)
Listen Out is an annual Australian music festival held in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, since 2013. With a focus on hip-hop, R&B and electronic music, this year’s festival features 19 acts and is presented by Fuzzy and Triple J.
Tickets: https://moshtix.com.au
Groundwater Country Music Festival, October 17-19
Where: Kurrawa Park, Broadbeach, Gold Coast
Price: FREE
Groundwater Country Music Festival (CMF) gathers some of the best country artists in the Australian country music industry over three days on the Gold Coast. And it’s free! After a massive 10-year celebration in 2023, we saw 37 acts in 2024 including Adam Brand, Shannon Noll and Kasey Chambers.
More information: https://groundwatercmf.com
Big Pineapple Festival, November 1
Where: Pineapple Fields, Woombye, Sunshine Coast
Price: (2024 price) $150
The Big Pineapple Festival is the Sunshine Coast’s juciest event of the year, putting the spotlight on the country’s best artists and is major tourism drawcard for the region. The iconic festival, which saw Peking Duk, Golden Features, and Tones & I in 2024, celebrates all things Australian. There’s a famed fancy-dress competition and the inaugural Great Australian Pineapple Toss.
Tickets: https://www.bigpineapplefestival.com/.
Ability Fest, TBC 2025
Where: Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Price: (2024 price $60)
Ability Fest is celebrating its fifth year, by expanding to Brisbane. It’s the first of its kind, promoting access and inclusion within the music industry, and is presented by the Dylan Alcott Foundation, Untitled Group and Triple J. With 20+ acts it’s a festival designed for everyone to experience the magic of live music, and is a not-for-profit event, with 100 per cent of proceeds going to the Dylan Alcott Foundation.
Tickets: https://megatix.com.au
Maleny Music Festival, November 7-9 2025
Where: Maleny Showgrounds, Maleny, Sunshine Coast
Price: adult $79.39 (2024 one day price) or $204.67 (2024 3 day price)
The Maleny Music Festival is an all-ages, three-day music event offering camping, workshops, markets, open mics, bush poetry, and jam sessions. The family-friendly, community festival is run by volunteers and specialises in folk, blues, jazz, traditional Irish, and rock music, with some bush poetry, comedy, yoga, and musical workshops thrown in for good measure.
Tickets: https://www.malenymusicfestival.com/festival-tickets/
Palm Tree Music Festival, December 2025
Where: Sandstone Point Hotel, Sandstone Point, Moreton Bay (45 minutes north of Brisbane)
Price: (2024 price) $182.95
Sunsets, good vibes, and epic beats is all a part of Palm Tree Music Festival. In 2024, The Chainsmokers, Alesso, Gryffin, Austin Millz, Daya all rocked out at Sandstone Point Hotel providing the perfect soundtrack to summer. Watch this space in 2025!
Tickets: https://premier.ticketek.com.au.
Good Things Festival, December 2025
Where: Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Price: (2024 age 16+ price) $239.95
Australia’s largest travelling music festival, Good Things, brought a head-spinning lineup in 2024 including; Korn, SUM 41, Violent Femmes, The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, The Living End, The Gaslight Anthem, Electric Callboy, Northlane, The Butterfly Effect, Dragon and Killing Heidi.
Tickets: https://tickets-pre.goodthingsfestival.com.au.
Spilt Milk, December 14, Gold Coast
Where: Gold Coast Sports Precinct, Kombumerri Land, Gold Coast
Price: (N/A)
There will be no crying over Spilt Milk this year with a massive lineup announced for December following last year’s hiatus. US rappers Kendrick Lamar and Doechii (pictured) will headline this year’s festival.
Also featured on the lineup are Sara Landry, Dominic Fike, D4vd, Nessa Barrett, Skin On Skin, Sombr and Rebecca Black, and homegrown acts including The Dreggs.
Tickets:
Woodford Folk Festival, December 27, 2025-January 1, 2026
Where: 87 Woodrow Rd, Woodford, Moreton Bay (40 mins drive from Brisbane and Sunshine Coast)
Price: $140 (2024 price) or $542 (six days)
This six-night annual music and cultural festival is held near the semi-rural town of Woodford, a 40 minute drive from both Brisbane and Sunshine Coast. The Woodford Folk Festival is one of the biggest of its type in Australia, with approximately 125,000 patrons attending the festival every year. Camping options range from $40 per day.
Tickets: https://widget.woodfordiaweb.com.
Wildlands Festival, December, 2025
Where, Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
Price: $179.90 (2024 first-release) or $241.90 (2024 fifth-release)
Kickstart the new year with your besties as you enter a whole new world with elevated production and improved layouts, including a new fourth stage which makes its debut in Brisbane this year. Allow Wildlands to open your senses to 26 of the best acts in dance, electronic, indie and hip-hop, from around the globe. This NYE at Brisbane Showgrounds will mark Wildlands’ sixth festival and its biggest to date, with extended hours past midnight.
Tickets: https://www.wildlandsfestival.com.au/qld/home.
Queensland Music Festivals Coming In 2026
Juicy Fest, January 2026
Where: Doug Jennings Park, Main Beach, Gold Coast
Price: Adult $269.10 (last event price)
Juicy Fest served up its biggest line-up this year, since it burst onto the scene in 2023. Juicy is the ultimate R&B and hip-hop festival, and this year brings more than 16 of the most influential R&B and hip-hop stars of the 90s, 2000s and 2010s to Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
Jeremih, Bizzy Bone, Layzie Bone, Jay Sean, Twista, Baby Bash, Pleasure P, Bobby V and the Ying Yang Twins all played in 2025.
Tickets: https://www.juicyfest.co/juicy-news.
Minden Music Festival, January 2026
Where: Minden Retreat, 25 Boughens Rd Minden (an hour west of Brisbane).
Price: $125.50 includes camping (last event price)
Minden Music Festival is a unique indoor event, nestled in the beautiful Lockyer Valley. Offering the perfect place to relax among the gum trees, you can sit back, unwind and enjoy some great local music. Take a scenic drive around town or enjoy a peaceful walk around the property. Then cool down at the end of the day with your new mates in the dam or saltwater swimming pool.
Next year marks the festival’s 13th year, and the headlining bands here put on a solid two-hour performance. There’s a good mix of tribute and premium cover bands, with an awesome dance area and no noise restrictions. Just don’t forget to BYO food and drinks, and book online to secure free camping.
Tickets: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/.
St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, February 2026
Where: Brisbane RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane
Price: From $189.90 (2025)
What started as a series of weekly shows at a tiny Melbourne bar has blossomed into one of Australia’s most beloved festivals. Across a decade, Laneway Festival has become a staple of essential music festival fun.
The event continues to showcase its original set of values which champions community, fosters collaboration, and encourages self-expression.
Last year, Charlie XCX, Beabadoobee, and Clairo headlined. Who will we see in 2026?
Website: https://www.lanewayfestival.com/.
New Bloom Fest, March 2026
Price: N/A
New Bloom Fest brings together the golden age of DIY hardcore shows and all things alternative into a modern setting. The three-stop Australian tour showcases alt-rock, post-hardcore, grunge, punk, and more. The curated rock festival has shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
In Brisbane, headliners Basement will be joined by Balance and Composure, Drain and One Step Closer.
Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/event/1300615CDC7782AA.
CMC Rocks, March 2026
Where: Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich (30 mins west of Brisbane)
Price: One day adult $239 (2025 price) or three-day adult $439 (2025 price). Click here for more prices.
This all-ages Australian country music festival will host around 28 artists next year, over three stages, and with 16 international and 12 Australian artists.
It’s been 18 years since its inception, with CMC Rocks bringing huge international acts such as Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs and Taylor Swift.
Tickets: https://www.cmcrocks.com/tickets.
Bluesfest 2026
Where: Byron Events Farm, Byron Bay, New South Wales (1.5 hours drive from Gold Coast)
Price: Friday adult $195 (last event price). Click here for more ticket and camping prices.
This year, Crowded House headlined the 36th and “final Bluesfest” this year. However, it turns out that was just a clever marketing ploy and it’s back baby.
Each Easter long-weekends, since its inception in 1990, has seen fans flock to see some of the world’s biggest names. Bob Dylan, Hozier, Paul Simon, Angus & Julia Stone, Robert Plant, John Mayer, Jurassic 5, James Brown, David Gray, John Legend, and BB King, have all played here.
Bluesfest sold 6000 tickets in its first year, now attracting more than 100,000 people.
Tickets: https://www.bluesfest.com.au/about.
Blues on Broadbeach, TBA, 2026
Where, Surf Parade, Broadbeach
Price: FREE, except Sunday’s Kurrawa Park Ticket (last event price, $119).
Blues on Broadbeach has previously attracted major acts such as Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tijuana Cartel, BOOMCHILD, Melissa Etheridge, Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, Melissa Etheridge, Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, but also blues music communities and enthusiasts from across Australia. Last year around 36 artists performed each day.
Tickets: bluesonbroadbeach.com.
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This Queensland Music Festivals Guide was created by Yelo Mag. Read more about live music on the Sunshine Coast and beyond at yelo.live.
