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QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022
is now sold out and the
final artists added to the bill 

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With the very welcome news that tickets have all sold the QMF  festival organisers can now turn their minds to planning the party and what a party it will be with a feast of talent to satisfy all ages! QMF would like to thank everyone who bought tickets, especially those who have held on to them since March 2020.

With this years line-up proving as eclectic as it is exciting QMF announce their final additions to the line up.  Adding their magic to the 2022 QMF stages will be Carly Jorja, Deep Heat Blues Band, Gabby Steel, Georgia Rodgers, James Sidebottom, Maz Green,  Mink Mila, Nathan Seeckts, Piano Bar, Seb Szabo, Stefan West, Summer de Vries, Sweethearts, Tides of Welcome Choir, The Connected Circus, The Mojo Corner,  Yoga and Live Music with Tom Richardson, Vince Peach and Watty Thompson.

QMF are particularly excited to welcome the fabulous crew from Geelong’s famous Piano Bar who will take to the festival stages all weekend and keep the party going between headline acts with a diverse mix of family friendly classics. Andy Pobjoy and Shandelle Cooke will be playing requests throughout Friday and Saturday with the early sets  kid-friendly whilst the later hours will see the drag queens emerge. On Sunday they’ll be  delivering  the ultimate kids singalong of movie favourites with the Piano Bar Family Show offering everything from old-school classics to contemporary chart-toppers, the event will showcase all the epic music from all your favourite family movies,  delivered  by  some of Australia’s finest vocalists.

Always proud to support  the wealth of musical talent on the Bellarine, QMF will showcase a range of local artists, winners of QMF’s various programs since the last Festival in 2019. Stefan West earned his showcase at QMF by winning the busking comp in 2019 whilst Seb Szabo and Gabby Steel both won the Foot In The Door on line competition in 2021.

The kids are never forgotten at QMF and 2022 will be abuzz with not only Piano Bars Disney extravaganza joining the already announced Teeny Tiny Stevies but also Nic Dacomb will further round out the kids program, bringing his The Krazy Koala Puppet Show combining live music, slap stick comedy and charismatic puppets in a show which will delight the entire family and if that’s not enough, Nic will then jump on the high wire balancing  3 meters above the ground…. blindfolded and set to beautiful music with his High Wire Show, it makes the impossible possible! Plus The Connected Circus brings their huge range of activities and shows including Fire Folk  a lively Electro-swing set using Fire Fans, Staffs, Poi and Dragonstaffs. Then at 9pm, watch the Bo-Guns on Fire smash out an Aussie Rock classic Fire set.This colourful and engaging space will be open from 10am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday. There is a range of Circus props to play with and instructors to help you learn them. There will be Face-painting running throughout the festival in this space as well as an Art space to relax in. There is also an undercover Games space, an Outdoor Active Games area and a space for toddlers. All this plus kids workshops and roving performers guarantee the kids will be well entertained.

With the festival SOLD OUT QMF will once again operate a ticket swap via the festival website. To buy and sell authentic tickets for re-sale head HERE

Beyond the festival gates, visitors to the region can enjoy a ride on the Queenscliff-Sorrento ferry or stroll through the markets that spill across the Queenscliff foreshore, running Saturday & Sunday from 9am-2pm.

Queenscliff Music Festival runs from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 November.

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BAKER BOY

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ISABELLA MANFREDI

The success of The Preatures introduced the world to Isabella Manfredi. As noted by iD-Vice “Isabella Manfredi has It — that thing one step up from plain-old charisma” and SMH for her “electrifying presence”. With multiple ARIA nominations, accolades and global tours under her belt, Isabella has recently launched her solo career with the release of singles ‘Jealousy’ and ‘One Hit Wonder’ from her upcoming debut solo album. A strong artist advocate in the Australian music scene she is a founding member of #KeepSydneyOpen, has spoken openly as part of the #MeToo and #MeNoMore movements (including as panellist on Q&A), was part of the advisory board for the inaugural AWMA’s (Australia Women in Music Awards) patroned by Chrissy Amphlette and is an APRA ambassador and mentor. She has also appeared in Australian Vogue, RUSSH magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, InStyle, 10, Oyster, Sneaky, Yen, Tangent, Astrophe, Beat (UK). In 2021 she broadened her musical composition skills to film, composing the score for PLAN B, a HULU Original film directed by Natalie Morales.

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MIDDLE KIDS

Middle Kids write and perform critically acclaimed, emotionally vulnerable and complex indie rock music. Riding the wave of success on their first single ‘Edge of Town’, they released their award winning, debut album ‘Lost Friends’ in 2018. This record earned them Triple J’s Best Australian Album, multiple ARIA nominations and sent them on a seemingly endless multi-year run of dates across USA, Europe and Australia. In the final months of 2019, Middle Kids recorded their most recent album ‘Today We’re The Greatest’ in Los Angeles with legendary producer Lars Stalfors (St. Vincent, Purity Ring). Released in March 2021, it received fawning reviews worldwide, an ARIA nomination for ‘Best Rock Album’ and had them performing on prestigious US late night shows (Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with James Corden, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert). Middle Kids have just finished a tour of North America where they were one of the very first bands to tour internationally since the onset of the COVID pandemic.

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RVG

With the release of their second album Feral in April 2020, RVG crafted an LP that was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, and Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. This past year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk’s ‘Army of Me’, a live on KEXP session, a sold out album launch at The Corner Hotel, one of the first shows without capacity restrictions in Melbourne, and a show at The Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live. RVG live is Romy Vager, Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.

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