The inaugural Leaps and Bounds Music Festival kicks off on Friday 5 – Sunday 21 July at over 50 traditional venues and the emphasis of the festival is local – local performers and local audiences.
The participating venues announced so far include:
Abbotsford Convent, Bar Open, Barleycorn Hotel, Bendigo Hotel, Boite World Music Café, Corner Hotel, Empress Hotel, Eureka, Evelyn Hotel, First Floor, Fitzroy Bowling Club, Fox Hotel, Gasometer, Gertrudes Brown Couch, Grace Darling Hotel, Great Britain Hotel, Grumpy’s Green, Labour In Vain, Laundry, Luwow, Night Cat, Old Bar, PBS FM Studio 5, Rainbow Hotel, Rochester Hotel, Some Velvet Morning, Standard Hotel, The Vic Hotel, Tote Hotel, Uptown Jazz Café, Workers Club, Yah Yah’s and Yarra Hotel. More venues are expected to be announced as the festival nears.
Each venue has programmed their own entertainment for the festival and will be ticketing their own shows.
The Corner Hotel, the biggest participating venue in Leaps & Bounds, long known for delivering the best of both local and international bands to audiences in the City of Yarra, has a huge lineup over the festival period.
They’ve included plenty of local content with Dick Diver and The Twerps on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July (first show sold out, second selling fast), Goldfields on Saturday 13 July, Kingswood on Thursday 18 July – both selling fast – and Airbourne on Saturday 20 July (sold out).
A special matinee double bill with Mikelangelo & The Tin Star with the Black Eyed Susans has been announced on Sunday 7 July at 1pm, featuring an afternoon full of surprise guests and collaborations. This show will also feature dream pop chanteuse St Clare and dark western rockers The ghtiest Of Guns.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! Check with your favourite City of Yarra venue to see what special treats they have in store during Leaps & Bounds and keep an eye on www.leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com for a full program, more details and information as the event nears.
Find your way around the festivals’ venues with Music Victoria’s free Melbourne Music City app available on iTunes or Google Play.
Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria & PBS.
