Bluesfest

Bluesfest's Peter Noble has driven home the importance of live music on the NSW economy, noting how his iconic festival draws in more money than sport and movies in the state. It's no secret that…

Bluesfest organiser Peter Noble has warned once again that Bluesfest could be forced to leave New South Wales if policies handed down by the NSW government in an attempt to curb festival deaths…

Peter Noble told TMN that figures like this could make or break an event.

“She’s a go-getter. And she’s getting.” That’s how Bluesfest festival director Peter Noble characterises his award-winning colleague Kimberley Galceran, who’s been getting all the big shows of late.…

“The future is incredibly exciting for this next generation."

The war on festivals rumbles on, but there are signs of a truce. Following intensifying pressure from the live industry, artists and a scathing open-letter penned by Bluesfest director Peter Noble,…

“Can you contemplate an Australian festival scene without Bluesfest?"

The recently-launched Australian Festivals Association has weighed in on the mess that is the NSW festivals licensing regime, which the peak body concedes was "too rushed and done without enough…

"I am saying now, Bluesfest will leave NSW. We have no choice; it's a matter of survival. Will the last festival to leave NSW please turn out the light of culture in this soon to be barren state?"…

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