Local band Owls of Neptune, young musician Layla Havana, and the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival have joined 14 artists, arts groups and creative businesses to share in almost $90,000 of funding to help further develop their practices. The Sunshine Coast Council’s latest Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) grant recipients will use their money for
Sunshine Coast musicians are vibrant, diverse and experienced, with many established veterans with decades of gigs and industry experience under their guitar straps. But alongside this old guard of talent comes a new generation of young fledgling musos, carving out their own place in the music community. These under 20-somethings are independent, driven, gigging every