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Regional Queensland guide
Regional Queensland live music scene
Big drives, small rooms and music worth leaving town for. Regional Queensland has its own live music pulse, from coastal festival towns and country halls to northern tour stops, pub rooms, theatres and one night local lineups.
YELO tracks regional gigs, festivals, venues and stories across Queensland so you can find live music beyond Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.
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Gigs, festivals, venues, monthly picks, music news and submissions from across the state.
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FESTIVALS Plan the road trip around the lineup. REGIONAL
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GIG GUIDE Gigs worth finding beyond the south east. QLD
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VENUES Rooms, pubs, theatres and stages to watch. GIGS WORTH
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HOUSE FOR A monthly shortcut to the good stuff. Send it to YELO SUBMIT
YOUR GIG Got a regional show, venue or festival? Add it to the radar. REGIONAL QLD
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NEWS Artists, venues, festivals and stories from across the state.
MUSIC
FESTIVALS Plan the road trip around the lineup. REGIONAL
QLD
GIG GUIDE Gigs worth finding beyond the south east. QLD
LIVE MUSIC
VENUES Rooms, pubs, theatres and stages to watch. GIGS WORTH
LEAVING THE
HOUSE FOR A monthly shortcut to the good stuff. Send it to YELO SUBMIT
YOUR GIG Got a regional show, venue or festival? Add it to the radar. REGIONAL QLD
MUSIC
NEWS Artists, venues, festivals and stories from across the state.
Stories from Regional Queensland’s live music scene
Local artists, venue updates, festival announcements, touring news and stories shaping live music across regional Queensland.
Read Regional Queensland music news →Regional Queensland band rooms
The rooms carrying live music across Queensland
Regional Queensland’s live music map runs through pubs, arts centres, theatres, clubs and community stages. These are some of the rooms worth knowing when you are following music beyond the south east corner.
Darling Downs + Wide Bay
Southern regional stages
- Empire Theatre Toowoomba
- The Powerhouse Toowoomba
- The Spotted Cow Toowoomba
- Brolga Theatre Maryborough
- Moncrieff Entertainment Centre Bundaberg
- Beach House Hotel Hervey Bay
Theatre tours, pub gigs, local lineups and regional stops across the Darling Downs and Wide Bay.
Central Queensland + Mackay
Central and north coast rooms
- Great Western Hotel Rockhampton
- Pilbeam Theatre Rockhampton
- Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre Gladstone
- Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre Mackay
- Seabreeze Hotel Mackay
- Harrup Park Mackay
Larger touring stops, country shows, theatre programs and local stages running through Central Queensland.
Townsville + Cairns
North and Far North Queensland
- The Warehouse Townsville
- Dalrymple Hotel Townsville
- Townsville Civic Theatre Townsville
- Tanks Arts Centre Cairns
- Cairns Performing Arts Centre Cairns
- Elixir Music Bar Cairns
Northern touring destinations, independent rooms, arts programming and major regional performances.
Queensland live music areas to watch
Where YELO is looking across the state
Queensland is too big and too musically alive to fit inside one city guide. These are some of the regional centres, coastal towns and inland stops YELO is keeping an eye on.
Cairns
Far North Queensland tour stops, festival energy, arts programming and tropical music detours.
Townsville
North Queensland touring shows, country festivals, local bands, theatre rooms and bigger regional events.
Mackay
Touring circuit stops, regional music nights, theatre shows and north coast festival movement.
Rockhampton
Major tour stops, country music, theatre programming and Central Queensland live music.
Toowoomba
Inland gigs, touring acts, alt country, pub shows, theatre dates and Darling Downs surprises.
Gympie
Folk, country, regional arts, Music Muster energy and live music just north of the Sunshine Coast.
Bundaberg + Fraser Coast
Theatre tours, pub rooms, coastal shows and festival stops across Bundaberg, Hervey Bay and Maryborough.
Why regional Queensland?
Because music does not stop at the south east corner.
Regional Queensland is full of artists, rooms, festivals and one off shows that can be hard to track unless you already know where to look.
This guide is for locals, touring bands, road trippers and anyone planning a weekend away who still wants to know what live music is happening nearby.
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