Music
2013 Adelaide Festival Music Events
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall
Two legendary forces in new music unite: iconic performance artist Laurie Anderson and Grammy Award-winning sonic adventurers Kronos Quartet.
Neil Finn & Paul Kelly Free Concert
Australia's greatest pop poet and New Zealand's most celebrated songwriter and performer kick off Adelaide Festival with a free concert.
2001: A Space Odyssey
One of the greatest films ever made accompanied live by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a 60-voice choir.
Jordi Savall
One man and a strangely beautiful instrument have changed how the world hears early and baroque music and enraptured audiences.
Calder Quartet & Iva Bittová
Pairing Hungarian folk songs with Fred Frith's composition, the Calder Quartet and Iva Bittová present an eclectic evening of music.
Goran Bregović & the Weddings & Funerals Orchestra
Welcome to the party that is celebrated composer and Balkan rock star Goran Bregović and his 20-piece orchestra!
Into The Bloodstream
Australia’s beloved singer/songwriter Archie Roach has found a renewed inner strength and expressed it through this new live show.
Van Dyke Parks & Special Guests
Decades before the term Americana was even invented, Van Dyke Parks’ all-embracing musical vision expanded far beyond folk and country.
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard takes to the stage with The Frames in a thrilling show drenched with passion and honesty.
Kronos Quartet, JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia, Bryce Dessner
International favourites Kronos Quartet are joined by indie superstar Bryce Dessner of The National – and New Yorker JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia.
Brassland & Friends: Deerhoof, Buke and Gase, Jherek Bischoff
Get set for a sonic celebration as the Brassland community come together on stage with their friends Deerhoof.
Doveman, This is the Kit
Doveman transports his monthly in-the-round Le Poisson Rouge residency direct from New York to Adelaide, performing desperately beautiful music.
Bryce Dessner curates the Adelaide Art Orchestra, Clogs
(featuring Padma Newsome's "Stick Music" and other selections)
Severed Heads with special guest ATOM TM
Thirty years after their inception, this game-changing super-group reform especially for Adelaide Festival for the last time. Promise.
Unsound Adelaide
From Krakow, Poland to New York and now Adelaide, the hugely successful Unsound Festival showcases new electronic music and visuals.
Solaris
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason celebrate the 50th anniversary of writer Stanislaw Lem’s novel with this narrative of sound.
Tim Hecker, Daniel Lopatin, Robin Fox, Raime, Trinity
Unsound Adelaide kicks off with drone, ambient electronic, mad musical experiments and hypnotic visuals.
Tim Hecker, Actress and Hype Williams
Make your ears happy with acclaimed electronic acts playing minimal, glitch, and ambient gone weird, wild and wonderful.
Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole & Ben Frost
Low frequencies, dark ambient, post punk, black metal and noise – things get dark and spooky on Unsound Adelaide’s last night.
SOUL II SOUL (Soundsystem)
British electro RnB pioneers Soul II Soul bring the ’80s and ’90s Back to Life as they meld together Philadelphia soul, disco, reggae and hip-hop in one butt-swinging live show.
Karin Schaupp & Pavel Steidl
Two of the world’s greatest guitarists, Karin Schaupp and Pavel Steidl, perform together for the first time.
WOMADelaide
In the middle of the Adelaide Festival, the world converges on Botanic Park for one of Australia’s favourite outdoor festivals.
Australian String Quartet
The Australian String Quartet blazes a trail through our musical landscape.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are bringing their renowned live show to Adelaide in March.
