VICTORIA
Echuca-Moama Winter Blues, July 27-30
The premier annual music event of the Echuca-Moama region, Winter Blues presents four days of free entertainment with more than 40 artists appearing throughout the Port of Echuca’s heritage precinct. Local pubs, cafes, restaurants and cellar doors will host performances by soul man Frank Sultana; blues and roots band 19Twenty; R’n’B singer Cass Eager; singer/songwriter Anna Scionti; blues unit Catfish Voodoo; Sweet Felicia & the Honeytones, and many more. Elsewhere, aspiring musicians are invited to gain practical skills in the music industry via the two-day Songwriters Studio, which concludes with a showcase of original songs performed for a live audience. winterblues.com.au
Surfaced Stories, until Dec 10
On display at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), explores diverse approaches to mark-making and storytelling through ceramics from Indigenous artists in the SAM Collection. Sparked by a ‘conversation in clay’, the exhibition features the works of 17 Indigenous artists from across Australia. Built by hand or wheel, these artworks hold patterns, motifs and designs – often marked in sgraffito or scratched surfaces – born of individual or intergenerational knowledge carried across 60,000
