Wagga Weekender Music Festival 1:1 in Australia 17.04. - 19.04.2026

Wagga Weekender is no ordinary music festival. It’s a bold new player on the cultural calendar – made for curious ears and open hearts and built to surprise.

Launching in April 2026, this music festival in Australia brings together a genre-smashing lineup of artists from across the country. Think Persian classical meets electro-acoustic experiments, First Nations-led composition alongside jazz fusion and live-looping saxophones. It’s a mix designed to intrigue, inspire and mess with your expectations in the best possible way.

Staged across Wagga Wagga’s buzzing Civic precinct and capped off with a showstopper in nearby Ganmain, this is a boutique festival with serious intent and a playful spirit. It’s shifting perceptions of what regional arts can be and delivering the kind of world-class program you’d expect to find in a capital city, minus the pretence and the price tag.

From 17 to 19 April 2026, 1:1 CONCERTS will take place in Wagga Wagga as part of the festival.

1:1 CONCERTS Australia conquer new terrain far from the concert hall through unusual venues - whether an Art gallery, cricket pitch, national park or cocktail bar – anywhere can be transformed into a stage. Initially a social project that boomed world-wide in the Pandemic raising money for out of work musicians, 1:1 CONCERTS Australia have been featured in 7 Australian cities.

Last seen in Australia at the 2021 Adelaide Festival, curated by the Australian 1:1 CONCERTS Organiser Sally Walker in collaboration with the initiative’s German co-founders Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund, the 1:1 CONCERTS series received five-star reviews and ran a series for women experiencing homelessness in addition to the main series.

Sally returns to this endeared project, curating the series in Wagga.