Sydney Arts Festival

When & Where The Sydney Festival occurs in Australia, from the first week in January until February. The festival usually occurs at this time of year.

Legend soul-man Al Green will be performing this year.

Previous Music Line-Up Jarvis Cocker | Jim James (My Morning Jacket) | Peaches | Feist | Róisín Murphy | Lisa Kekeula (The Bellrays) | Jimmy Little | Ron Peno | Sarah Blasko | Dan Kelly | Kim Salmon | Laura Jean | Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) | Warren Ellis | Clare Bowditch | Martha Wainwright | Juliette Lewis | Julian Hamilton (The Presets) | Rufus Wainwright | Kram (Spiderbait)

History This 3 week performing arts, music & theatre festival was originally held in 1977. It has since grown into one of Australia's largest festivals with the best night being the first night as scheduled since 2008 pulling numbers of 200,000 for a free awesome music & dance show.

Getting there Book a flight into Sydney International Airport here or get there by train train.

Where to stayThere's excellent quality hotels and cheap accommodation available in Australia here.

Sydney Arts Festival

What to expect More then 80 events with more then 500 artists from Australia & worldwide. Performances include dance, theatre, music, visual arts, cross media, work shops and forums. Sydney Festival events are both ticketed & free, there's a number of quality, free outdoor events like the Domain Concerts which attract up to 100,000 per show.

Venues Performances will be at Sydney Theater, CarriageWorks, City Recital Hall & the spectacular Sydney Opera House.

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