DRIFT festival starts tomorrow 21 April. List of music events below.

For 10 days in April, DRIFT will once again bring the Peninsula’s venues, places and spaces to life. Residents, visitors and tourists will come together to enjoy art of all disciplines, including performance, music, visual arts, film, public art installations, multimedia and projections, writing and literature and local food and wine, offering exciting new opportunities to experience the best of the region.

Like last year, the festival delivers a range of programming: large-scale events, boutique programming and pop-up style events in public spaces, shop fronts, traditional and non-traditional venues and landscapes and digital activations across the Peninsula. This year, there will also be a festival hub at the Village Green in Rosebud. At the hub you’ll find laugh-out-loud comedy, experimental circus, dazzling cabaret, live music and family-friendly entertainment.

The Hub will become a pop-up playground across four venues: Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud Soundshell, Rosebud Memorial Hall and our DRIFT Artists’ Bar.

The inaugural DRIFT Arts Festival, delivered in 2022, was a success with a total of 20,000 audience members. The festival contributed to positive social and health and wellbeing outcomes and injecting approximately $3.5m into the local economy. The timing of the festival in is strategically placed to reduce seasonal ebbs and encourage year-round activity and visitation to our beautiful part of the world.

DRIFT is a love letter to our unique region and its community. The festival will have something for everyone: outdoorsy types, art connoisseurs, comedy hungry, music lovers, foodies and kids will all find something to enjoy and remember. These shows are not to be missed! More info here: https://www.driftartsfestival.com.au

Brought to us by MP Shire.

DRIFT Live Music Events

Friday April 21

Street Ball and Ganga Giri
Somerville Recreation and Community Centre
11:00am Free event

Deadly DRIFT – DRIFT LAUNCH
Kee’Ahn and Carissa Nyalu
8:30pm (full celebration show starts at 3:30pm)
Free event

Saturday 22 April

Brittany Holt
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
7:00pm Free Show

The Tuck Shop Ladies
The Pig and Whistle, Main Ridge
Doors 7:30pm

These New South Whales
HABA, Rye
Doors 8:00pm

Sunday 23 April

Aimee Francis
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Inanna Indigo
Homecoming at The Shed
The Pig and Whistle, Main Ridge
Doors 2:30pm

Monday 24 April

Darcy Fox
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Rosebud Memorial Hall
7:30pm All Ages Show – Free

Yacht Rock Revival – Tribute to 70s/8os soft rock
HABA, Rye
Doors 7:30pm

Tuesday 25 April

Mudhoney
HABA, Rye
Doors 7:30pm

Wednesday 26 April

Mathilde Anne
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Thursday 27 April

Jalgany
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Adalita w/ Taylah Carroll
Rosebud Memorial Hall
Doors 7:30pm

Friday 28 April

Rae Santos
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Dingo Spender and Ben Purdie – Sound and Cacao Ceremony
Stoker Studio, Mornington
6:30pm

CHILD w/ Domesticated Animals
Soundbar, Rosebud
Doors 7.00pm

The Smith Street Band w/ Rennie and the Shitchair
Rosebud Memorial Hall
Doors 7:30pm

Isobel Caldwell
Gods Band Room, Mornington
Doors 8:00pm

Saturday 29 April

Spud Thompson
DRIFT Artist Bar, The Shoreline Big Top, Rosebud
5:00pm Free Show

Various artists
Peninsula Beer Garden, Boneo
4:00pm – 6:00pm

Words and Music
Rebecca Barnard and Peter Farnan – Songs of Joni Mitchell
Stella – The Miles Franklin Story w/ Alma Zigier and Rebecca Barnard
The Portsea Camp
6.30pm

Kyle Lionheart
HABA, Rye
Doors 7:30pm

Firetail
Gods Band Room, Mornington
Doors 8:00pm

Sunday 30 April

Various artists
Peninsula Beer Garden, Boneo
4:00pm – 7:00pm

Plus Music In Public Spaces – various artists
More info here: https://www.driftartsfestival.com.au/program/drift-music-in-public-spaces