First Nations Umbrella
Umbrella Festival acknowledges and pay our respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands on which our festival takes place. We acknowledge that these lands were never ceded and remain as important to the...
Family-Friendly Umbrella
With over 175 events statewide this Umbrella Festival season, it’s hard to know where to start! Luckily we’ve got you covered with some handy gig round-ups in the lead-up to July! Our 2022 program is loaded with family-friendly events throughout July, including...
LGBTQIA+ Umbrella
With over 175 events statewide this Umbrella Festival season, it’s hard to know where to start! Luckily we’ve got you covered with some handy gig round-ups in the lead-up to July! It’s important that all Umbrella Festival attendees feel safe and welcome...
Climate Action & Sustainability Resources
This year Umbrella Festival hosted ‘Clean Up Your Act’, a sustainability and climate action focussed workshop, delving into how members of the music community can help create cleaner and more environmentally friendly events and gigs. Below is a round-up of...Umbrella Program Launch 2022 Gallery
Umbrella 2022 Program Launch at The Grace Emily Hotel. Photography by Roman Wojtkowski.
Umbrella 2022 Program Announced
Umbrella Festival’s 2022 Program is officially hitting the streets today! We are so excited for our massive local program of over 175 events statewide this Umbrella festival season. We will be celebrating the entire month of July with live music in over 90 local...
Umbrella Registration Resources
This year Umbrella Festival event registration fees have been lowered to $25 with the aim to get as many local artists, venues and professionals involved, and to support them as best as possible given how rough COVID has been for our industry. In addition to this,...
ReConnect: Let’s Catch Up!
Umbrella Festival is hosting ReConnect on Thursday April 14 at The Jade, an event based on rebuilding networks after two years of disconnection. The Umbrella team spends a lot of time talking to musicians, venues, promoters and bookers in South Australia. We so often...
Umbrella Festival 2022 Registrations Now Open!
Umbrella Festival is back for 2022 – and it’s already time to kick off, with all registrations now open! This year there are a few changes, with Umbrella running for the whole month of July state-wide, and Moshtix joining us as our official ticketing partner. Our aim...
Umbrella Festival Wrap-Up Competition
With Umbrella 2021 all wrapped up, we want to thank everyone who has been involved in our wonderful festival! Whether you were an artist that performed with us, someone who came along and watched some of our live music, or a venue that had an event – it was...
Alpha Box & Dice Flash Competition – CALLING ALL BANDS & ARTISTS
Photo of Ricky Albeck at Umbrella Festival Opening Night 2021 by Samuel Graves Photography Alpha Box & Dice is generously running a FLASH COMPETITION during the final week of Umbrella! One lucky 2021 Umbrella Festival artist or band will win a $500 cash prize!...
Official Opening Night Party – Umbrella 2021
What an amazing night we had at our Official Opening Night party on Sat 17 July in Rymill Park! A big thank you to everyone involved, including our presenting partners, City of Adelaide, Adelaide Fringe, and Music SA; Kuma Kaaru for the Welcome to Country, our...
Umbrella Opening Party Survey Competition
Enter now for a chance to win one of the following prizes!: 3 x $100 Adelaide live music venue food and beverage vouchers 1 x $100 Adelaide Fringe 2021 voucher 1 x case of Pirate Life Beer 1 x Alpha Box and Dice wine Umbrella Festival Opening...
2021 PROGRAM HITS THE STREETS
Music SA’s popular open-access music festival boasts 290+ live music performances across more than 80 South Australian venues this winter! Music SA is proud to announce that after a hiatus in 2020, Umbrella Festival is back in 2021 for its fifth instalment, delivering...
Umbrella Festival: COVID-19 Updates
This has obviously been an exceptionally trying time for Australia and the world. The music industry, particularly live music, has been hit exceptionally hard by the COVID-19 crisis. According to the I Lost My Gig Australia initiative, Australia has lost $300M across...
UMBRELLA NEWS: Artwork Reveal, Registrations Open & More
What a huge week for Umbrella! To begin with, the festival finally fully unveiled Umbrella 2020’s official artwork! We welcome our gorgeous singing Rosella mascot into the Umbrella family, surrounded by vibrant sunset tones and musical rain. This was created by local...
REGIONAL EXPANSION FOR UMBRELLA 2020
Featured image by Alex Kwong. Music SA is so excited to see Umbrella 2020 bring another year of vibrant and diverse live music to warm South Australia’s winter months. In a historic move, Umbrella will be expanding regionally across South Australia in 2020...
Info Sessions for 2020!
Music SA is proud to announce that Umbrella Festival is back for it’s 5th year of celebrating live music during the South Aussie winter months! This year is bigger and better than ever with an extra week of festival fun; kicking off on July 17th and wrapping up on...
Umbrella Winter City Sounds Launch Party
Umbrella Winter City Sounds Launch Party May 29th 2019 @ The Lion Arts Centre Photography by Morgan...
Umbrella Festival Program is LIVE!
Music SA is proud to announce the return of the popular Umbrella: Winter City Sounds festival for its fourth year, delivering a program of live music across a range of Adelaide venues this July and including a host of awesome showcase events. Featuring over 20...
2019 SCOUTED LINE-UP ANNOUNCED!
In its third year, Music SA’s Scouted returns in 2019 to showcase to significant industry representatives and enthusiastic music fans the wonderful unsigned and emerging musical talent we have in South Australia. In conjunction with Umbrella: Winter City Sounds and...
Win an Umbrella Festival Getaway!
Umbrella Winter City Sounds are offering a Winter Festival Holiday Package for two people to Adelaide during the AIR Awards and Scouted (July 26-28). The 17-day festival will heat up the city and suburbs during winter with an exciting smorgasbord of over 350 live...
Umbrella Festival Program Launch After Party
The 2019 Umbrella Festival Program officially launches on May 29 and it’s time to celebrate the colder months with a party! FREE ENTRY | DOORS 8PM Dean Forever The Empty Threats Hey Harriett Oopsie Daisy + groovy DJ’s and drink specials Umbrella Festival is the...
