Star Studded Darwin Festival Line Up Announced

Darwin will seriously come alive this August as, for 18 hot nights, some of the country's finest musical acts (and a couple of international stars) descend upon the Northern Territory capital for some serious musical celebrations as a part of the 2012 Darwin Festival.

Country music superstar Kenny Rogers heads up the bill that features a vast array of talent that encompasses genres from children's music to indie rock to big band jazz to hip hop and so much more, with plenty of Australia's most in demand musicians getting in on the action as well.

Here's the bill:

Kenny Rogers
Lanie Lane
Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rockettes
Graveyard Train
Last Dinosaurs
David Garnham & the Reasons to Live
Tinpan Orange
Hermitude
Washington & Kate Miller Heidke
National Indigenous Music Awards
Nicky Bomba's Bustamento
Holly Throsby presents SEE!
B2M
San Cisco
The Medics
Narbalek
Wolf & Cub
Colin Hay
Ngaiire
The Black Arm Band
Shellie Morris and the Yanyuwa Songwomen
The Ukeladies and the Dukes
Jácam Manricks Trio with Jigsaw Collective
Trevor Ashley is Liza [on an E]
Songs from Stone Country
Tripod
Operation Big Bands
Darwin All Stars
Happy Yess
Festival Club DJs

There are simply too many shows for us to outline them individually here, so for more information we urge you to head to the festival's website where you can get more specific date and ticketing information.