Roger Shepherd, Adalita, NGAIIRE and more join the Rock & Roll Writers Festival in April

The 2017 Rock & Roll Writers Festival has unveiled its complete line up following the event’s special launch event in Melbourne overnight, with a final batch of speakers announced, as well as some great developments for the festival in this, its second year.

Concentrated on exploring the relationship between writing and music, the RRWF will be held in Brisbane over April 1st and 2nd at the Old Museum but on April 9th, the festival comes to Melbourne for a unique ‘tour edition’ at the Abbotsford Convent. A single day sampler event of the full festival, the event will feature a selection of speakers from the 2017 RRWF, as well as some speakers from 2016.

Tickets for the Melbourne event can be bought here, with the line up of speakers coming in the next few weeks.

In addition to the already announced program of speakers boasting the likes of Tim RogersTony MottCash Savage and Zan Rowe, a further 16 speakers have been revealed for the main event in Brisbane – check them out below.

ROGER SHEPHERD (NZ)
ADALITA
MATT NOFFS
JOEL BIRCH
BRENTLEY FRAZER
NGAIIRE
KAHL WALLIS
PAUL BARCLAY
LEAH COTTERELL
RHIANNA PATRICK
BEC MAC
SARAH CONNOR
GREG ARNOLD
SALLY BREEN
JOHN WILLSTEED
DAVID BURTON

 

 

Get around the full schedule here and purchase your tickets via http://oldmuseum.org 

 

 

 

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