Thurs Fri Sat arvo Sat night Sun Music Shows Specials
The team at The Village Festival have sourced bands from the bars, pubs, community halls and lounge rooms of Melbourne. There will be music to dance to, music to swoon to and music that will find you picking your jaw off the grass.
| Artist/show/band name | Description | Time | Venue |
| All Day Fritz | Super grown up music for kids. A bunch of well known music who don’t dumb down their music for the young ones. So it works for everyone! Dancing guaranteed. | Sunday 1.30pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Black Orchids | Power Uke with traditional drums straight from West Papua! Not to be missed! | Saturday 10pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Burnt Sausages | The Burnt Sausages are a sizzlin’ new band with a hot new type of music – BBQ Punk. These bangers with bang have been charred, scarred and tormented with tongs. Prepare to be dunked in tomato sauce, coleslaw and smokin’ hits like ‘Get Out of My Grill’, ‘Too Many Onions’ and processed meat anthem ‘Burnt Sausages: Raw On The Inside’. WARNING – CONTAINS MEATY MAYHEM | Saturday 2pm; Sunday 2.20pm | The Van |
| Day of the Dead Band (Siete Calaveras) | Dave Evans (The Band Who Knew Too Much) has a million great side projects. This is his Mexican Day Of The Dead band. Live. | Friday 7.30pm | Roving |
| DJ | Thursday 10pm; Sunday 5pm | Outdoor Stage | |
Frida |
A catchy pop side project of some of Melbourne’s young funk/soul musicians. | Friday 9pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Glitter Rats | Glitter Rats are a five-piece gutter-folk/bush-punk band based in Melbourne and Central Victoria. They sound like banjo, fiddle, double-bass, drums and lagerphone with a bunch of yelling and carrying on. | Thursday 8.15pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Gravity | Maxine is ten. She writes the songs. Her dad plays the drums. She plays the synth. This is GREAT pop. It really is! | Saturday 12.15pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Havana Palava | They call themselves “Melbourne’s rambunctious street carnival band.” That because they are! In what is becoming a tradition, Havana Palava open procedings. | Thursday 6pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Sugar Fed Leopards | Steff Brett takes it to the max with her six piece band | Saturday 4.30pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Just Holler | Everyone’s favourite community pop choir. A Village favourite. Read about last week’s rehearsal when their conductor was sick. It’s very funny. | Saturday 1.45pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Los Cumbia Killers | Carlos Parraga and a bunch of his mates play authentic Cumbia. It’s very sexy stuff and is for dancing to. | Thursday 9.15pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Lucas Paine | Alaskan songwriter Lucas Paine, Slow Paw pairs the simplicity and soaring desperation of Appalachian Mountain songs to lyrical stylings inspired by the searching darkness of poets the like of Dylan Thomas and Rilke. | Friday 6.30pm; Saturday 6.30pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Melbourne Balinese Gamelan Orchestra | Tantalisingly hypnotic melodies from an ancient instrument played by a team. | Sunday 2.15pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Melbourne Massed Gospel Choir | There will be about 50 of them. They sing gospel fit to bust! Totally uplifting and exhilarating. Seriously good. | Sunday 3pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Orlando Furious | He’s new. He’s doing his own thing. It’s gorgeous and noisy and a wee bit wrong. | Friday 10pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Pugwash | Pirate, sea shanty, rollicking stuff. | Thursday 7.15pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Scrimshaw Four | Really good Jazzy bluegrass. Authentic as that can be. | Saturday 1pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Shljivovitz Orchestra | A big naughty Eastern European noise. Skol! | Friday 8pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Tek Tek Ensemble | We love Tek Tek! Soul/Indonsesian/pop/suf/Kenyan/Eastern European/jazz/calypso/Mexican. Truly. | Friday 7pm | Outdoor Stage |
| The Night Before Tomorrow | Sitting sometimes awkwardly and sometimes comfortably between the styles of The Velvet Underground, Billy Joel, The Slits and The Shaggs, TNBT play The Village for the third time. Because we love this band too. | Sunday 1pm | Outdoor Stage |
| The Whoopee Project | Some of Melbourne’s best known circus musicians sailing under the radar playing good time toons. | Sunday 4pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Underlander | Far and away Melbourne’s foremost Acoustic Convict Deathfolk Orchestra | Thursday 6.35pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Ungus Ungus Ungus | The psychedelic gypsy prog-rock band so radical they named it thrice. | Saturday 9pm | Outdoor Stage |
| Zucchini Clan | Lovely tunes for free range kids! | Sunday 1pm | The Van |