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Festival Calendar 2025: The Best Queensland Music Festivals
Ready to fill your calendar with the best Queensland music festivals? Prep your outfits and pack your bags for camping, music and good times.
Queensland music festivals are well and truly back and we couldn’t be more ready to be out and about in the sunshine, under the stars, amongst people and most importantly… amongst the music! With festivals facing challenges getting off the ground or scoring enough ticket sales, it’s never been more important to support the industry.
If you like to plan ahead (like we do!), you’ll find a whole host of fun events for 2025 right here in our guide.
From the major players like CMC Rocks to the lesser known (or brand new!) festivals, we’ve found a mix of the best music festivals in Brisbane on the radar.
From the outback to the shores of Byron Bay, these music festivals are spread across the region and range from country to soul and hip-hop.
There’s something on offer for every kind of music lover. So keep on scrolling and start getting your playlist ready for the road trip, it’s time to plan out your Queensland festival calendar for the next few months!
Big Gay Day 2025
Dig out your jorts and inflatable purses, because Big Gay Day is back and ready to take you over the rainbow this year with a cute Y2K theme!
This year, the festival is headlined by none other than Peach PRC and The Presets supported by acts like Jimi the Kween, Lazy Susan, Freya Armani and so many more. As always, proceeds from the festival will be donated to charity, to support organisations that service the LGBTQIA+ communities. This year’s recipients are the Open Doors Youth Service.
Start planning your costume and book your tickets here!
Tickets from $80 per person
The Wickham, 308 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley
Open Season
After a successful first year of events, Open Season has cemented itself as part of The Tivoli’s annual programming, and we’re giddy with glee about it. This festival is spread across the two venues and spans over thirty performances from local and international acts.
2024’s lineup saw an eclectic mix of live music, performance art and laneway parties come to life and we expect that 2025’s showcase will take it to new heights! Combined with the old-world glamour of two of Brisbane’s most iconic venues, this premier arts festival will be one to add to your calendar year after year.
2025 Dates TBC
Multiple locations
Brisbane Festival 2025
Brisbane Festival returns and we’re ever so ready for it! Celebrating the lifestyle, persona and energy of our river city, these highly anticipated events bring an enormous calendar of performance, art and culture back to our doorsteps.
From light shows to renowned artist performances and incredible installations, this is the best time of year to explore the growing pace of Brisbane’s arts and cultural scene. With some of the Festival’s installations beginning from August, the program will be in full swing from September 1st and we recommend booking tickets now to prevent any disappointment, as events will sell out fast!
Friday 5th September to Saturday 27th September 2025
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
Toowoomba’s most exciting event of the year happens each September, and if you haven’t yet attended, you’ve certainly heard of it. The Carnival of Flowers showcases incredible floral displays, garden tours, live music and of course the grand parade. Whether you’re a green thumb or simply an admirer of beautiful things, it’s the best time of year to visit Toowoomba and soak up the food, florals and culture that come to life.
If you’re searching for things to do in Toowoomba, you’ll find the widest variety of events occurring throughout October, from food and wine festivals, live music from your favourite bands and arts and crafts workshops so you can make a little bit of magic to remember your trip by. The programme changes each year and accommodation books out months in advance, so make sure you’ve planned and prepared accordingly!
Friday 12th September to Monday 6th October, 2025
Various locations across Toowoomba
Listen Out Festival
Need to shake some stress out of your system? The dance festival of the year is the perfect place to let off some steam and dance like none of the thousands of other festival-goers are watching.
Set at the iconic Brisbane Showgrounds, there’ll be plenty of room to stretch your legs or rest your worn-out party feet on the grandstands at this Queensland music festival. Stay tuned, the lineup will be announced soon!
Dates TBC
Brisbane Showgrounds, 600 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills
Promiseland
A cutting-edge, multi-genre festival experience returns to the Gold Coast in 2025, blending the intersecting rhythms of Afrobeats, Reggae and R&B. Promiseland promises an effervescent new experience by delivering a cultural melting pot of global music, culture and energy.
This Queensland music festival offers more than tunes, with unique brand activations, market-style shopping plus some surprises along the way!
The 2022 debut of Promiseland was a breakthrough event for the African and Polynesian people in our communities, celebrating and sharing their culture with this landmark new event. Stay tuned, the lineup will be announced soon!
Dates TBC
Doug Jennings Park, Main Beach
Savannah In The Round
Don your Akubra and boot scoot your way down to the Mareeba Rodeo Grounds for Savannah In The Round, a three-day festival with over thirty artists on the bill! Located in the Atherton Tablelands of Tropical North Queensland, you can easily combine your trip up north for this music festival with a vacay to Cairns or Port Douglas.
Featuring heavy-hitting major acts like The Living End, Hoodoo Gurus and Troy Cassar-Daly this year, lovers of country, blues and roots will be in their element in this beautiful pocket of Tropical North Queensland. Opt to glamp, camp, snuggle in a swag or stay a little further afield with shuttle buses running daily.
Thursday 9th October to Sunday 12th October 2025
State Route 27, Mareeba
Good Things
One of the newer kids on the festival scene is Good Things, a punk, rock and hardcore festival that is simultaneously proficient in bringing nostalgic vibes whilst embracing new and emerging artists on the scene!
Pulling huge international acts such as Bring Me The Horizon and Deftones as headliners in past years, the organisers behind this Queensland music festival are keeping us hanging at the moment. We recommend signing up online for updates, as official headliners and dates are yet to be confirmed. Don your Doc Martens, and we’ll catch you in the mosh!
Date TBC
RNA Showgrounds, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane
CMC Rocks
Howdy ma’am, it’s time to pull on your boots and jeans and get ready for Australia’s biggest country music festival.
The country music scene is a touch underserved when it comes to live music, so CMC is the best Queensland music festival to see multiple major country acts all in one location. In its 17th year of rocking the lives of country music fans across the nation, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest international country music festival found its home at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway near Ipswich.
Prepare to dance the nights away from Friday 21st March to Sunday 23rd March 2025 when CMC Rocks QLD returns to Ipswich for one showstopping weekend.
Friday 21st March to Sunday 23rd March 2025
Willowbank Raceway, 38 Champions Way, Willowbank
OUT 2 LUNCH FESTIVAL
One of the nation’s newest festivals returns for its second year this May, brought to you by world-renowned local DJ FISHER and TEG Live.
Dance your cares away to energetic live performances by Fisher’s curated line-up that features acts like Hayden James, DJ Boring, Little Fritter and Shimmy on the beachfront of Surfers Paradise, for Euro summer vibes like no other. Fisher himself will headline both nights of the OUT 2 LUNCH FESTIVAL.
Saturday 3rd to Sunday 4th May, 2025
With such a full calendar of diverse Queensland music festivals, we couldn’t be more thrilled to see the music and entertainment industry revived and thriving. Prep your skin for the festival season with these new beauty products that we’re currently loving! If festival season sets off your wanderlust, check out these dreamy day trips from Brisbane that will scratch your travel itch. See you under the stars!
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