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Members of the Cairns Municipal Band, who performed a concert with music by Glenn Miller, the Jersey Boys, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and Beethoven, at the opening of their new Edge Hill hall, officiated by Cr Anna Middleton and attended by more than 50 people. Picture: Nick Dalton

Opening is band-tastic

CAIRNS Municipal Band has played its first concert in its new club house at Edge Hill.

27 July, 2026

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The cast of ‘Time Step – A Musical Mockumentary’ during rehearsal ahead of the Cairns Choral Society’s theatre restaurant season, which opens on Friday 31 July. Picture: Supplied

Actors step back in time

Driftwood members (from left) Matt Gerdes, Phoebe Jacobs, Zane Stradling and Michael Godde will launch their debut EP ‘Atlantis’ at Tanks Arts Centre on Saturday 25 July. Picture: Supplied

Driftwood’s Atlantis celebrates building a new life

Phil Jamieson will perform at Tanks Arts Centre in Edge Hill on September 10. Picture: Laura May Grogan

Artist’s 30-year dream at Tanks

At the last North Queensland Sports Awards were (from left) NQSF chairwoman Cr Rhonda Coghlan, Stephen Farrell, Tori West, NQSF CEO Alexander Fisher, Jade Nelson and (in front) Grant ‘Scooter’ Patterson. Picture: NQSF

Sport awards first for city

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Kawanji Dancers will present ‘Imbala – The Dance of the Butterfly’ at CIAF 2026, sharing a Western Gu Gu Yalanji songline through dance, language and storytelling. Picture: Supplied

Cultural lens on arts expo

Paul Dempsey will bring his ‘Shotgun Karaoke Vol. II’ regional tour to Tanks Art Centre in Cairns on July 23, performing an intimate acoustic set shaped by audience requests. Picture: Ash Ludkin

Singer: ‘You call the shots’

Ray Beadle will perform with Ryo Montgomery and Ian “Johno” Johnson at Tanks Blues in Tank 5 at Tanks Arts Centre on Saturday 4 July. Picture: Supplied

Blues talent unite under hill

Cairns Djembe organiser Jeff Cotter (centre) leads the group for the last time at the Cairns Friendship Garden pagoda. Picture: Nick Dalton

Drummed out

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Cast members (from left) Karen Wilson, Ben Cook, Rebecca Martin, Melanie Hossell, Herman Smith and Vanessa Dinelli in Catwalk Chaos, opening at the Rondo Theatre on 26 June. Picture: Paul Furse/ Frontrow Foto

Chaos on Rondo’s catwalk

Documentary cinematographer Pieter de Vries will present ‘On the Wild Side’ for ArtsNational Cairns at Stratford Library on Sunday 21 June. Picture: Supplied

Take a trip on the wild side

Actors Vaughan Wapau (left) and Jimi Bani perform in The Boy Who Found His Way Home, which will be presented as a special one-night-only performance during CIAF 2026 at Tank 5, Tanks Arts Centre. Picture: Supplied

Boy is on way home at Tanks

ARIA Hall of Fame inductees The Living End will bring their ‘I Only Trust Rock n Roll’ tour to Cairns in August. Picture: Jacob McCann

Trio trusts rock ‘n roll

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