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Interview with Finn Ress – keyboardist, composer and producer

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A new music and arts festival is coming to the Northern Rivers, with Bangalow set to host the inaugural Dingo Music & Arts Festival across four days from 8 to 11 October.
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Prost, Byron! Oktoberfest is back

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Grab your steins and throw on your lederhosen, Stone & Wood is doing Oktoberfest properly this year.
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Byron Ballet’s 20th Anniversary Nutcracker

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After a successful season performing with the Victorian State Ballet in Beauty and the Beast, dancers from the Byron Youth Ballet Company are preparing to take the stage once more – this time for their own production of The Nutcracker.
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The Whitlams Return to Rock Island

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The Whitlams are coming to the Hotel Brunswick on Friday, 2 October for the first show of the Return to Rock Island tour. The band is revisiting its favourite rock venues down the East Coast, where long, sweaty nights formed the bedrock of The Whitlams’ reputation as a memorable force in the Australian live music scene.
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Greasing up Bright Lights

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Bright Lights senior musical theatre troupe is proud to present Grease for their 2026 musical production.
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Animals reveal a human story at BBFF

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Animals take an unexpected starring role in the newly revealed program for the 20th Byron Bay International Film Festival, with filmmakers from Australia and around the world using our relationships with animals to explore some distinctly human questions.
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Big weekend at Wandana

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Wandana Brewing Co. is set to host a big weekend, kicking off on Thursday with their popular weekly Trivia Night. The jackpot bonus is now sitting at $450, that’s plenty of reason to dust off the team and show up.
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Interview with Pat Powell from the Melbourne Ska Orchestra

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Hot off the heels of a wild year touring in Canada and Australia, and Byron Bay, the Melbourne Ska Orchestra’s (MSO) Spaghetti Western wagon trail rolls on, and they’re bringing along the super deluxe edition of their acclaimed album The Ballad of Monte Loco with all the faves, plus a swag of brand-new tracks and honky-tonk renditions of MSO’s staples to Brunswick Heads.
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Richmond RiverFest returns to Ballina on World Rivers Day

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This spring, the Richmond River comes alive with a month-long celebration of culture, community, and Country as Richmond RiverFest 2026 runs from 27 September to 24 October.
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Ten plays. Ten minutes. You decide.

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What can happen in ten minutes? A retirement village might need a child. A cat could outsmart its human.
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Celebrating 50 years of the Billinudgel-Ocean Shores RFS

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The Billinudgel-Ocean Shores Rural Fire Service (RFS) has been working to keep their community safe for the last 50 years and are celebrating this weekend with an Emergency Services Expo on Saturday, 19 September and a fun Bush Dance Extravaganza at the Billinudgel Pub on Sunday, 20 September.
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ReWilding Red Riding Hood

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Red Riding Hood is the most well-known folk tale in the world. But there is a wilder, mediaeval French version, L’histoire de la Grand-mère, in which the heroine is a trickster who outwits her predator.
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The largest festival of Italian cinema in the world!

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The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2026, presented by Palace, is the largest festival of Italian cinema in the world.
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Highlights in its packed program

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September and October are gearing up to be huge months for Brunswick Picture House, with many highlights in its packed program.
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Cinema: & Sons

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The estranged sons of a reclusive novelist are called to meet him after he becomes convinced he is about to die – is he?
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Pints and pats

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Good news for dog lovers and beer lovers alike: the pups are heading back to Stone & Wood on Saturday, 19 September for a special Dog Adoption Day, Spring Edition!
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Motown magic

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Get ready to sing along, dance in your seat and relive the soundtrack of a generation when The Big Chillout: Motown Spectacular comes to Ballina RSL next month.
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A new chapter for NORPA

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From 1 to 3 October, NORPA will welcome audiences into its new creative home in The Joinery for the very first time, for a strictly limited, four-performance season of POV by the acclaimed Re:group Performance Collective.
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A new Sunday tradition

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The Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club is excited to announce the launch of its new Sunday Open Mic Jam Sessions starting this Sunday and continuing every Sunday from 3pm to 6pm.
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Charlie is fresh

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Despite being a relatively fresh face on the Australian scene, Charlie Shell’s rise over the past year has been nothing short of meteoric. His single ‘Hitz 4 The Hood’, peaked at number 1 on Beatport’s UKG chart in 2025, with support from frontrunners like DJ Seinfeld, Groove Armada, and even a co-sign from John Summit.
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The big 1-2-0

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For 120 years, the Billinudgel Hotel has stood at the heart of a small Northern Rivers village with a very big story.
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Cinema : Three screen divas in nun’s habits

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What could possibly go wrong? Judy Davis as Sister Agnes, Miriam Margolyes as Sister Luke and Jacki Weaver as Sister Mary Clare are tossed into the rugged landscapes of 1970s New Zealand in Holy Days.
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Byron Bay Public School presents:

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The Great School Art Show Off! – Byron Bay Public School invites the community to celebrate creativity at a spectacular afternoon of art, music, dance and community spirit on Wednesday, 9 September from 4pm to 6pm.
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Three screen divas in nuns habits

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After what felt like an unusually cold winter, get ready to celebrate warm spring nights with a packed September program at Brunswick Picture House. And what better way to sort out your Father’s Day with some good old-fashioned live entertainment?
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Give these men a cigar!

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Since their formation in 2019, No Cigar has rapidly established themselves as one of New Zealand’s most promising musical acts, captivating audiences with their infectious grooves and compelling storytelling. The release of their first single ‘Tickets To Space’ at the end of that year was just the beginning.
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They’re back!

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Nudge Nudge Wink Wink launches Season 11 and they’re still dancing, still giving back!
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One Night Only

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What if one messy night turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you? Will Gluck, the filmmaker of Anyone but You and Easy’, celebrates modern romantic comedy on the big screen with a fresh, witty, swoony, original film about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year in One Night Only.
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Byron’s Philo Café

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Byron’s long-running discussion group – Byron Philo Café – is inviting members of the general public to join them on Friday, 4 September, at Marvell Hall, to welcome one of Australia’s most respected journalists.
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They’ve got their trousers on

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They’re almost here – Baggy Trousers bring ‘Madness’ to Ballina next week! London-born and hailed as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier Madness tribute show, Baggy Trousers brings to life the legendary UK band’s iconic hits in The Sound of Madness and bring the energy, humour and soundtrack of the UK’s golden era to Ballina RSL.
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Brisbane band awake in Byron

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Don’t let the name fool you – Vancouver Sleep Clinic (VSC), who are returning for their first Australian show in half a decade, are not Canadian!
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Everyone’s welcome at the House of Spaghetti

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Spaghetti Circus is throwing open the doors of its Mullumbimby home later this month, presenting its 2026 Annual Show, House of Spaghetti, at the Mullumbimby Showground from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 August. Five shows over three days, with every student on stage.
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Sydney Film Festival highlights in Lismore

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Following the highest selling film festival in its history, Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is taking highlights from its June program to Lismore Cinemas this...
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Women Who Dared

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Australia’s internationally acclaimed Streeton Trio returns to Byron Theatre with Women Who Dared, a powerful chamber music concert celebrating four extraordinary female composers whose...
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An iconic Australian sound at the Beachy

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Few Australian bands have carved out a sound quite like The Cruel Sea. More than three decades after forming in Sydney, the indie rock icons continue to deliver music that feels unmistakably Australian: dark, bluesy, swaggering and effortlessly cool.
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The Big Chill Out

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Join the incredible vocal talents of Judah Kelly, Asabi Goodman and ensemble as they bring you the story of the feature film The Big Chill.
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Concrete Surfers return

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National circuit mainstays Concrete Surfers have spent the last decade touring the country, selling out shows, supporting major artists and continuously releasing ever-more refined music, and their debut self-titled album was released earlier this month, with a return to the road for a large national tour.
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Some Justice for children

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What happens when innocence is broken? When a child speaks up? When a family can’t cope? At 53, Cathy Byrne reported her 1980s sexual abuse by a teacher. She was shocked by the backlash
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Living on the borderline

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A conversation with prize-winning, influential Indian author Geetanjali Shree is a writing masterclass in and of itself.
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The Big Voice at Writers Festival

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The artistic director and creative force behind Big Voice Choirs, Janet Swain, will bring her 40-strong choir to the Byron Writers Festival this weekend for a Sunday afternoon performance.
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Authentic flamenco in Mullumbimby

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Internationally acclaimed flamenco guitarist Paco Lara (Jerez, Spain) joins celebrated flamenco dancer Elena Moro (Seville, Spain) and Australian-Spanish flamenco artist Sebastián Sánchez for Entre Dos Mares, an intimate evening celebrating the passion, rhythm and soul of Andalucía.
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Dice are worth a view

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Hot on the heels of the announcement of Dice’s second album, I Thought The Altitude Would Make It Worth The View, the four-piece from Perth announce an extensive national tour in support of the album.
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Early risers rejoice!

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While most of the Bay is still hitting snooze, Byron Writers Festival’s early birds are invited to join us in the water, on the mat, or deep in headline discussions at this year’s festival – and the best part is, several of these sunrise sessions are free.
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Coercive control incidents rise across Northern Rivers

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Recorded incidents of coercive control have increased across the Northern Rivers in the second year of NSW’s new coercive control laws, with 30 incidents recorded in the Richmond-Tweed region since the offence came into effect.
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New laws set to influence local live music scene

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New NSW laws designed to support live music venues have been passed months after Byron Shire Council abandoned plans for a Special Entertainment Precinct in Byron Bay.
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Shark drone operator rescues six-year-old at Lighthouse Beach

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A shark surveillance drone operator at Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach has found himself carrying out a very different kind of rescue after spotting a six-year-old boy struggling in the surf.
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Red alert issued for potentially toxic algae at Lake Ainsworth

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People are being warned to stay out of Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head after testing detected high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae.
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