Festival of Voices celebrates 20 years of community through song

The 20th anniversary Festival of Voices program honours the past while looking firmly to the future.
The Big Sing at Festival of Voices.

Twenty years ago, Festival of Voices was a grassroots gathering of singers and music lovers in nipaluna/Hobart in the depths of winter. Fast-forward to 2025, and Festival of Voices – the 20th anniversary program for which was recently launched – has become one of Australia’s most celebrated vocal festivals, drawing artists and audiences from across the country and around the world.

This year’s Festival, running from Friday 27 June to Sunday 6 July, honours that journey while also embracing up-and-coming talent. Festival favourites return alongside innovative new performances, in a program that honours the past while looking firmly to the future.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts