Queensland Music Festival: 20 Years

Since its inception, Queensland Music Festival has grown from a biennial music festival to an incubator of innovative music, cultural, and social change programs. We have worked with artists, communities, and organisations across a range of sectors to produce signature events, mass participation music experiences, tours, musical installations, workshops and skill-building programs, and new works inspired by Queensland’s stories, places, and people.

Particularly for people living in regional and remote places, Queensland Music Festival has become a cherished platform for access to and participation in world-class performing arts experiences, many of which are specially designed to inspire communities to celebrate their own unique role in the story of Queensland. 

As QMF looks to its future, using music as a vehicle to drive social change, the organisation has embraced the role of research, evaluation, and meaningful, evidence-based outcomes analysis in our program design and delivery. We are therefore committed to:

• Collaborating with research partners by providing case studies and models for researchers undertaking participatory action research in communities, thereby helping to progress current understandings of how to facilitate social change through music.
• Continually analysing and embedding the latest scholarly research into our program design and delivery, in order to ensure we are operating according to best-practice principles and achieving the best possible outcomes for our stakeholders.