THE inaugural Beyond Jazz Weekender will transform Bellingen Memorial Hall into a three-day playground of live jazz, club culture, dance, art and wellbeing from 15–17 August. More than a festival, Beyond Jazz revives the Weekender tradition — a term first used for Northern Soul Weekender dance events in 1970s UK, when fans travelled for multi-day […]

ORGANISERS of the popular Coffs Harbour Buskers Festival have decided to take a year off. As a result, the first week of the October school holidays will see no buskers on the streets, parks, reserves, pubs and clubs for the first time since the Covid pandemic. “We took a year off during Covid but apart […]

WHILE flooding rain prevented the Coffs Harbour Music Society’s concert in May it is hoped that fine weather will smile on the Mendoza Argentine Tango Quintet, Australia’s leading exponents of Tango, who are scheduled to perform at St John Paul College at 7.30pm on Saturday 2 August. Featuring the quintessential ferocity of the bandoneón and […]