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Sunshine Coast Weekend Guide
THIS
WEEKEND.
Live music, art, culture and local things worth leaving the house for across the Sunshine Coast.
This is the quick Friday to Sunday edit. For everything coming up, use the full Sunshine Coast Gig Guide, or explore YELO’s Sunshine Coast live music guide.
Friday, September 4 to Sunday, September 6, 2026 · checked September 1
Start here
Three places to check first.
Saturday is the monster day: Sunny Side Up takes over Aussie World, Boy & Bear hit Kings Beach Tavern and the Noosa Jazz Party keeps the northern end moving.
01 / Palmview
SUNNY SIDE UP.
The Sunshine Coast electronic festival returns to Aussie World on Saturday.
See event02 / Caloundra
BOY & BEAR.
One of YELO’s September picks lands at Kings Beach Tavern on Saturday night.
Tickets03 / Noosa
NOOSA JAZZ PARTY.
The Noosa Jazz Festival reaches its final weekend, with The J hosting the Jazz Party on Saturday.
See festivalYELO pick
BIG.
Sunny Side Up takes over Aussie World.
A full Saturday festival hit at Palmview, with the Coast getting one of the biggest dance-music events on this weekend’s calendar.
Saturday September 5 · Aussie World, Palmview
See Sunny Side UpFree this weekend
Spend nothing. Still leave the house.
One confirmed free live-music pick is in the current YELO guide for Saturday night.
Saturday · Mooloolaba
SPEIRA with PITY VINCENT
A free local live-music night at Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba.
Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba · Free
See eventLive music + more
The weekend shortlist.
Friday starts with theatre, synth-pop and local shows, Saturday is stacked across the whole Coast, and Sunday eases into Father’s Day live music at Coolum.
Friday, September 4
Elvis an American Trilogy
The Events Centre, Caloundra
Pseudo Echo — Take Me to Funky Town Tour
Norton Music Factory, Caloundra West
The Lark
The Events Centre, Caloundra
Tobias Celebrates The Cure
Imperial Hotel Eumundi
VERATIE
The Presynct, Nambour
Saturday, September 5
Boy & Bear
Kings Beach Tavern, Caloundra
Sunny Side Up
Aussie World, Palmview
The Lark
The Events Centre, Caloundra
The Noosa Jazz Party 2026
The J, Noosa Junction
Kevin Bennett, Kelly Cork & Jen Mize
Mapleton Community Hall
SEQ Underground Hip Hop Takeover
The Presynct, Nambour
Doggo Day Out
Blackflag Brewing Coolum
Arj Barker — The Classics
The Savvy Squire, Mooloolaba
SPEIRA with PITY VINCENT
Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba · Free
The Nook Sessions — Shaun Kirk
The Nook, Cooroy
Sunday, September 6
Father’s Day at Coolum — live music 12pm–3pm
Blackflag Brewing Coolum
Something different
THE
DOG.
Doggo Day Out at Blackflag Coolum.
If another standard Saturday night is not doing it for you, Blackflag’s Coolum brewery has Doggo Day Out on the calendar.
Saturday · Blackflag Brewing Coolum
See the eventArts + culture
Two exhibitions worth adding.
The Sunshine Coast National Art Prize continues in Caloundra while Noosa Regional Gallery has ninety small scale ceramic works on show in Continuum.
Caloundra Regional Gallery
Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2026
Forty finalist artworks from around Australia are on show until Sunday, October 11. Entry is free.
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Continuum
The Australian Ceramics Association presents ninety small scale works, on view until September 13.
Explore galleryGOT
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More ways into the Coast.
Use the full guides when you want more than the weekend shortlist.
