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.Tanks presents a diverse program of live music acts complimented by events such as the World Music Series, Jazz Up North, Flame.Music, 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.
The Beautiful Girls - Seaside Highlife: Greatest Hits Tour
$42 / $37 (CONC) inc b/fee
The Beautiful Girls are taking their new album to the people, playing it live, large as life and twice as much fun.
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True Vibenation
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
Big bass. Big beats. Big Horns. True Vibenation do everything big.
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C.W. Stoneking
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
For C.W. Stoneking, the road continues to call, and rumour has it he is on his way to Cairns for an intimate solo performance at Tanks.
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Flame.Music with Park Ridge, The Zephyrbees and Clara Satzke
$12.60 / $10.50 (CONC) inc b/fee
Homegrown legends, Park Ridge, (FKA Chester Brix), have flown the Cairns coop and now base themselves out of Melbs.
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The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera
$15.75 / $10.50 (CONC) inc b/fee
Tune in for daytime drama with a live electro house soundtrack that is banging like an unbalanced washing machine.
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Bobby Alu
$30 / $25 (CONC) inc b/fee
With nothing but beats, rhythms and good vibes, Byron Bay ukulele strummer, drummer and singer is hitting the road in celebration of his third album 'Flow', and he’s stop...
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Mission Songs Project by Jessie Lloyd
$35 / $30 / $25 inc b/fee
Jessie Lloyd explores the day to day life on the missions, settlements and reserves through music.
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The Black Sorrows
$45 / $40 (CONC) inc b/fee
In the wake of Joe Camilleri's 49th album, Citizen John, The Black Sorrows extend their Lover I Surrender Tour to Cairns.
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The East Pointers - World Music
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Redefining the ever-evolving genre – modern folk – with Billboard-worthy pop hooks, deep acoustic groove, trance-like trad breakdowns and three-part harmonies, The East P...
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Boy & Bear 'Suck On Light Tour' With special guests
$49 / $44 (CONC) inc b/fee
After the most tumultuous period of their lives both personally and professionally, Boy & Bear are back with another national tour, and Cairns we made the bill.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
All tickets one price $65 (inc b/fee)
No one could ever accuse Academy-Award winning Buffy Sainte-Marie of taking it easy.
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John Mayall
$57 / $52 (CONC) inc b/fee
For more than five decades, Blues Hall of Fame inductee John Mayall has served as a pioneer of blues music, earning him the title, "The Godfather of British Blues", and n...
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Ian Moss - Matchbook 30th Anniversary Tour
All tickets - $63.50 inc b/fee
Hot on the heels of the recent metro Matchbook 30th Anniversary Tour dates, Ian Moss is taking the iconic album on the road and he’s stopping in at Tanks for two special ...
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Kim Churchill: The Bright Night Sessions
$26.25 / $21 (CONC & Youth 15-17)
The Bright Night Sessions are all about connecting with phenomenal music communities throughout Australia.
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Grigoryan Brothers - Past, Present & Future - World Music
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
With a repertoire spanning centuries, continents and genres, amazing telepathy and the ability to draw emotion from every note, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan are justifiably ...
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