Music
Tanks Arts Centre is the leading contemporary music venue in the region, voted Cairns’ Best Entertainment Venue for seven years (and counting!) in the Cairns Post HIT Awards.Every month Tanks launches a diverse program of live music acts complimented by events such as the World Music Series, Jazz Up North, Music Botanica, Tanks Unplugged, Tanks Up Late and our yearly Bluesfest Touring Sideshows. Tanks has earned the reputation as a premier force in entertainment in the Far North Queensland region.
Deborah Conway, Willy Zygier & The Men
$45 / $40 (Concession, Children 6-17 years) / Children under 5 free on laps (prices include booking fee)
Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier are set to launch their 10th album together, The Words Of Men and will perform it at Tanks for one special night alongside their first alb...
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Fanta Stick Taiko Beat: Fusion of Japan - World Music Series
$25.25 / $21 (CONC) inc b/fee
Featuring internationally acclaimed Japanese Taiko musicians and the Cairns Taiko cohort, this exclusive performance fuses Japanese tradition with the 21st century in wha...
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Emily Wurramara | Flame.Music
$25 / $20 (CONC) inc b/fee
Queensland Music Award winner, prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Emily Wurramara, is a seasoned musician who has toured her sound nationally and abroad, perf...
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Emma Pask
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Her effortless honest stage presence combined with her powerful vocal ability, leaves audiences spellbound and inspired.
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Jim Moginie and the Family Dog
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Back in 2006 Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) founded The Family Dog to promote his first solo album Alas Folkloric. They have now hit the road again on the back of the new alb...
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Salmonella Dub Soundsystem
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
Introducing The Salmonella Dub Soundsystem - The Dub’s little Mashup Bro.
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Pierce Brothers
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
After sell out shows across UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia, twin brother duo, Pierce Brothers, have established themselves as a figurehead in the folk, blues and r...
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Pub Choir
All tickets - $16.50 inc b/fee
Everybody can sing, and Pub Choir is on a mission to prove it.
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Jon Stevens - The Noiseworks & INXS Collection
$45 / $40 (CONC) inc b/fee
Jon Stevens is considered one of the country's best musicians and a legend on the live music scene.
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Melbourne Ska Orchestra - One Year of Ska
One price $58 (price includes booking fee)
Don't miss the skankin powerhouse that is, Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
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Justin Townes Earle
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
No stranger to the Southern Hemisphere the formidable singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, on the back brilliant new album The Saint of Lost Causes, will be playing at ...
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Emma Louise - Lilac Everything Tour
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Emma Louise will be bringing her Lilac Everything Tour home to Cairns this September.
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Regurgitator - Quarter Pounder - 25 Years of Being Consumed
$47 / $42 (CONC) inc b/fee
REGURGITATOR quarter pounder tour - 25 years of being consumed!
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The Turner Brown Band
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Australian slide guitarist Dom Turner, (Backsliders), together with Ohio-based lap-slide guitarist and vocal sensation Nikki D Brown, form an uplifting gospel-soul-funk m...
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Hammerhead - Jazz Up North
$30 / $25 (CONC) inc b/fee
Jason Bruer's powerhouse sextet Hammerhead burst onto the Sydney scene some years ago playing from a catalogue of music largely inspired by the late 50s and early 60s 'Ha...
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