Music will be rippling across the state this month as solo artists, bands and ensembles strike up in venues around Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, Torres Strait, Gladstone and beyond. The Queensland Music Festival will be bringing live tunes to venues great and small from tomorrow, Friday July 17 to Sunday August 2. From local emerging artists to national talents and renowned international acts, the festival will reach 26 regions across 17 days.

Opening-day festivities will see many community events kicking off in Brisbane, from Twilight in the Red Box featuring the University of Queensland Chamber Choir, to QPAC’s free event Seed and WhichWay Uncle with some of Australia’s most respected Indigenous artists. Opening day will also see the launch of the large-scale installation project Keys to the City in the Queen Street Mall, which will see pods of pianos popping up in 40 different locations across the city every day of the festival; and artistic director James Morrison teaming up with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Grammy Award-winning double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer in his Australian debut for QSO, Morrison & Meyer at the QPAC Concert Hall.

Other festival highlights include The Australian Voices and Topology’s unique collaboration Unrepresentative Swill, Queensland Theatre Company’s Country Song and a special evening of jazz with James Morrison, Megan Washington and Romanian pianist Marian Petrescu. Browse the 2015 program and find more information online.