Multi award-winning Bobby Singh is Australia’s leading tabla player. He is internationally renowned in traditional Indian and cross-cultural genres and has performed with some of the finest musicians in Australia and overseas.

Celebrate Festival First Night with Bobby and his friends in an evening full of music, colour and dance featuring some of Australia’s most respected global music performers, taking  a journey that spans the world - from traditional to popular, percussive to melodic, virtuosic and serene. These are the unique sounds of multi-cultural Australia in all its beautiful diversity.

Jeff Lang
Jeff Lang is one of the most captivating guitarists of our time; a songwriter of great craft and power, a gutsy and sensitive singer, and one of Australia's burgeoning musical exports. By bending and blurring genres to create his own ever-evolving sound from the base ingredients of folk, rock and blues, Lang is a singular performer who defies categorisation.

The Band of Brothers
The Band of Brothers (featuring Slava & Leonard Grigoryan with Joseph & James Tawardros) is a special collaboration between two sets of brothers blending Egyptian, Brazilian and Eastern European music into a very Australian whole.

Circle of Rhythm
Known for defining and redefining what Australian drumming can offer the world, Greg Sheehan, Bobby Singh and Ben Walsh are Circle of Rhythm, a percussion trio with a difference, rich in culture from the various global music styles they spend their lives exploring.

Rasa Duende
Rasa Duende’s music is a journey from the rich, vibrant tapestry of India to the rolling olive groves and old world taverns of southern Spain, creating a sound that is uniquely and deeply rooted in the history of these two cultures.

To view the Festival First Night 2010 Minisite, click here.