Cherry is pretty much the best rock n' roll Bar in the world. Cherry is the only business located in world famous AC/DC Lane Melbourne (off Flinders Lane between Russell and Exhibition Streets) right in the heart of the Melbourne business district. A jewel in the junk heap or maybe an annoying boil on corporate arse cheeks? Cherry has become the destination for local, interstate and international bands to descend upon and party at after they’ve finished playing live themselves. We don’t need to name drop. You never know who you might meet at Cherry.

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is the national peak body for community radio and television stations.

Support for community organisations to preserve their cultural material, including archives and oral history recordings.

ComPeung AiR offers funding for music and visual artists to take up a residency in Thailand

Contemporary Music Services Tasmania (CMST) is the peak music industry body for Tasmania, providing services, forums and facilities to support  the Tasmanian Contemporary Music Industry’s development.

The Australian Government's Contemporary Music Touring Program provides funding for bands and solo artists who play original contemporary music to tour within Australia.

Family friendly January music Festival in the Gardens of Coolart Homestead on the Mornington Peninsula. Jazz, Swing, Opera, Rock and Blues.

Knock back a beer with your mates in the stylish bar that opens out onto bustling Sydney Road. Sip on a cocktail in the comfy lounge area. Deliberate over our beautiful, inexpensive, produce-driven menu in the bistro. Bask in the sunshine in our completely renovated and casual courtyard. Dance to the beat of our live DJs in the evenings or our acoustic Sunday sessions. Whatever it is you feel like, you'll feel like doing it at The Cornish.

The Country Music Awards of Australia is the nation's longest running music awards concert and the pinnacle event of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. 

creative|legal works with a wide range of clients, from emerging artists and producers to established production companies and arts businesses. It is a young and dynamic legal firm, and its lawyers have fifteen years experience in arts, entertainment and creative industries – as well as in the wider commercial and corporate legal environment. The firm's unique ability is to offer specialised and professional legal services to the creative industries.

Darkwave Consulting is a boutique Chartered Accounting Firm located in Fitzroy, Victoria, specialising in the Arts, Entertainment and Media Production Industries. Being Chartered Accountants, we are able to provide services from basic Bookkeeping & Taxation Compliance through to Management Accounting and Business Consulting Services. Whilst we specialise in the Arts and Media Industries, we also service all other types of businesses, from small retail stores to large private family groups.



The Office for the Arts works to support Australia's cultural and Indigenous sectors.

Dewar Law provides legal services to businesses, artists and media with a focus on commercial agreements of all kinds, intellectual property and corporate structures. Lloyd Dewar commenced his legal career at a large suburban practice before moving into the city working for boutique commercial firms. His valued clients include retail manufacturers, music and media talent, wholesale distributors, service providers, venues, software and media companies.

Ding Dong Lounge is Melbourne's premier underground live music hub in the heart of Chinatown, Melbourne. Sister to New York City bar of the same name, Ding Dong combines a Saloon Bar, Studio 54 inspired band room and vertical garden balcony to create one of Melbourne’s best alternative hotspots.

One of Melbourne's premier jazz and blues events.  Held on Main Rd, Eltham over Australia Day weekend each year.

Experimenta commissions new work by Australian media artists who work in the interactive, screen based, sound, public, transmedial, online artworks and beyond.

Projects supported will be funded up to $8,000.

The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia since 1993. It lasts four days, from 29 December to 1 January each year.

West Melbourne Stadium was originally built by John Wren, the chairman of Stadiums Pty Ltd, in 1915 and was the mecca for entrepreneurs’ entertainment ventures, which included numerous boxing, professional wrestling bouts and large meetings. Festival Hall was known as the original House of Rock and Roll, and is famous for its electric atmosphere.  From the pandemonium that greeted the Beatles, Bill Haley, Johnny Cash and the famous Lee Gordon “Big Shows”, through to the classic styles of Frank Sinatra, Liberace and Shirley Bassey.  More recently Oasis, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol and Powderfinger have all played to packed houses.

Ph: 133 133

Beneath the sky-blue ceiling and before the eyes of the surrounding Romanesque statues and gargoyles, the Forum Theatre, with its outdoor amphitheatre setting, has come a long way from the first “talkies” that played here in 1929.  Today, the Forum lends itself to the people of Melbourne as one of the most unique, and undoubtedly best venues, magnificent in its scope and mesmerising in its architecture.  The Forum Melbourne has earned a reputation for hosting many of Melbourne’s most cutting-edge events.

The aim of the Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship is to further the career of the successful jazz vocalist. The winner will receive $5,000 to assist in the development of their careers.

GI & Sanicki Lawyers is a boutique legal practice specialising in music & entertainment, commercial law, trade marks and intellectual property. We act for many of the biggest names in the entertainment industry and have expertise in all matters concerning creative small businesses. A dynamic firm in the heart of South Yarra, we offer cost effective legal advice across a range of practice areas in which our lawyers have professional, practical and personal experience. 

World Music festival in late January each year.  Hosted by City of Kingston at Namatjira Park, Clayton South.

Mid-January Festival at Point Nepean, Portsea

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust provides grants to individuals in the early stages of their career as an artist. They provide grants for travel and even purchases of musical equipment.

The Curtin Bandroom is the latest addition to Melbourne's live music scene. The 300 capacity bandroom has been designed to ensure an unrestricted view of the large stage from anywhere in the room. The Curtin is the perfect size to cater for album launches, interstate touring bands, and larger internationals seeking an intimate show.

JOY 94.9 is an independent voice for the diverse lesbian and gay communities listened to by 216,000 people in Melbourne and more online. Access podcasts, blogs and listen online to award winning music & talk, news & current affairs, arts & cultural programs.

Kindred Studios is a fully equipped multi-purpose facility and venue in Yarraville that offers specialized rehearsal and recording studios, a photography and video space, tutorial rooms, computer lab and a brand new operational theatre featuring a state of the art Nexo rig with industry standard front of house and fold back controls and a versatile lighting rig which is used primarily for musicians to both develop their work and to present musical events.

Bar located on the northside of Melbourne. Live 'n' local bands, open mic hip hop nights and Melbourne hip hop DJs. Music genres: hip hop, dubstep, grime, reggaeton, dance hall, electro and even that weird shit you cant seem to put in a box will have you doing whatever it is that you deem dancing. 

Liberty Victoria is one of Australia’s leading civil liberties organisations. Since 1936 they have worked to defend and extend human rights and freedoms in Victoria.

Media Arts Lawyers is a boutique entertainment and commercial law practise. We have been providing practical and commercial legal advice in the fields of entertainment, media, intellectual property, property and commercial practise for more than 20 years. We act for some of Australia’s highest profile musicians, events, recording and publishing companies, television personalities, film projects, media and brand agencies, publications and commercial enterprises. We also represent and support many new or fledgling artists and brands, and aim to be the first point of legal contact for all creative and commercial projects irrespective of their budget.

Annual, single-stage festival held on the second weekend in December at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre.

Four day springtime event held in late October.

Week long festival held in the Botanic Gardens, Mildura, VIC. 

MMF Aust. is a member of the IMMF, which was formed to represent the worldwide community of music managers at an international level.

Music NT is the peak music industry body for the Northern Territory. Their mission is to support the growth and development of original contemporary music in the Northern Territory.

Music Victoria is the newly established contemporary music industry peak body for Victoria.

Music Victoria is the contemporary music industry peak body for Victoria; an independent and non-partisan body established to support the Victorian contemporary music industry across all genres.

Ph: (03) 9380 1566

Fax: (03) 9389 9044

PO Box 220 Brunswick VIC 3065

Level 1, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC 3065



The Musicians Union of Australia was formed over a hundred years ago to protect the interests of musicians. Since then the MUA has negotiated awards governing conditions and rates of pay, represented musicians at all levels of government and industry and acted for musicians whenever their interests were threatened.

The MUA continues to be the support network for all musicians through the ever changing circumstances of our industry. The need for our union today, in the current deregulated environment, is as great as ever.

Joining the Musicians Union will give you protection, advice on all aspects of the Music Industry and make you part of the only organisation which specifically services the interests of all musicians.

Melbourne Branch: 150 Bell St, Coburg, VIC 3058

Fax: 9355 7621

MusicNSW is the Peak Body for Contemporary Music in NSW. MusicNSW exists to support the creative and economic expansion of the NSW contemporary Music Industry through advocacy, resource assistance, activating growth of industry infrastructure, delivery of tailored initiatives and provision of advice and referrals.

For the past 10 years Musicoz has been developing the music industry at the grass roots level by seeking out, recognising and encouraging the talents of unsigned and independent artists and providing them with much needed development support and opportunities as they carve out their careers.

MusicSA is a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing education, training and development for the South Australian Contemporary Music Industry.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is the nation’s living archive, collecting, preserving and sharing our rich audiovisual heritage.

Level 3, 114 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Toll free: 1800 067 274 (only available within Australia)

Covering 18 genres of music with over 5000 entries each year, the Musicoz Awards are specifically for unsigned and independent music artists in Australia.

A North Melbourne icon. Circa 1872, the Town Hall Hotel has been under the management of Jonny Lamar and staff for over a decade, serving the loyal, local following with great food, drink and music, and a great rustic and relaxed atmosphere, you'll instantly lower your blood pressure and wonder why you hadn't come here before.

Community broadcaster PBS 106.7FM is an icon of Melbourne’s unique music and arts community. Since 1979, PBS has been a key provider of independent and diverse music. With over 80 specialist music programs ranging from soul to garage to country to jazz, PBS is dedicated to promoting and nurturing music in all its diversity. From our humble inner-city studios, we broadcast 24 hours a day to the wider metropolitan area of Melbourne and beyond and stream live to the rest of the world via the web.

Annual Summer Music Festival featuring classical and contemporary music at Mornington Peninsula - held in January.

Held at Four Seasons Island Resort, Phillip Island in November each year.