Marysville Music Weekend has its splendid 2026 roster.
The festival’s busy organisers have named the artists booked for the event’s return to the Victorian mountain town from 13 to 15 November, led by alt-country figure Henry Wagons and roots guitarist Jeff Lang.
Fifteen acts are locked in so far, with more still to be announced. The program leans on Australian songwriters and live players, staged across small rooms and open spaces around the township rather than one central arena.
Marysville Music Weekend
- Across Marysville
- 13 to 15 November
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Who’s playing
- Henry Wagons
- Jeff Lang
- Rebecca Barnard & Shane O’Mara
- The Pleasures
- Ange Boxall
- Blues Roulette feat. Iseula and Jesse Valach
- Joyce Prescher
- Pirritu
- Yelo
- James Howlett
- Hazel & the Thief
- The Bobby Valentine Outfit
- Danny Walsh Banned Trio
- Jungle Jim Smith
- Alyce’s R O O M
Wagons is the marquee booking. The Melbourne performer has fronted his namesake band since 1999, and across roughly a dozen band and solo records helped carve out a place for outlaw country in Australia.
He is also a broadcaster, hosting the long-running Tower of Song on Double J, and has recorded alongside Alison Mosshart and Robert Forster.
Lang arrives with a different pedigree. The Geelong-raised guitarist has released more than 30 albums across three decades, won three ARIA awards, and holds the most nominations in the blues and roots category.
His self-described “disturbed folk” and unusual method of amplifying acoustic guitar shaped a generation of local players, John Butler among them, and his catalogue sits in the National Film and Sound Archive.
Around the two headliners are Rebecca Barnard and Shane O’Mara, whose creative partnership runs deep in Melbourne’s music history, and The Pleasures, a live act working a seam of country, blues and rock.
The remaining announced names take in Ange Boxall, Blues Roulette featuring Iseula and Jesse Valach, Joyce Prescher, Pirritu, Yelo, James Howlett, Hazel & the Thief, The Bobby Valentine Outfit, Danny Walsh Banned Trio, Jungle Jim Smith and Alyce’s R O O M.
Festival director Bill Bate framed the selection as a deliberate blend of established favourites and newer talent, saying the aim was “reconnecting people through music”, with each corner of the town handed over to a performance.
He returned to the point a second time, pitching the program so that every set felt personal, “whether you’re discovering a new favourite artist or catching someone you’ve followed for years”.
A festival of community
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The weekend began in 2015 as the Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend, set up after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires that devastated the beautiful and highly-resillient town. The aim was to draw visitors back and fill a quieter patch of the calendar. The weekend has run as one wonderful marker of that recovery.
Across the following decade the event widened its remit well past jazz and blues. Kate Ceberano, The Black Sorrows, Vika and Linda, James Morrison, Pierce Brothers and William Crighton have all featured on past bills. The 2026 edition marks what organisers describe as a fresh chapter, now run by Triangle Arts Group with backing from Murrindindi Shire Council.
The plan is a walkable weekend built around the town centre, performances scattered through Marysville’s venues and public spaces instead of a fenced-off site.
The details
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Marysville sits in the ranges north-east of Melbourne, on the edge of the Yarra Valley and around 100 kilometres from the city. The event spreads across the township from 13 to 15 November.
Days are pitched around live music, local food and drink and a family-friendly setting, with several stages running over the weekend. Organisers have signalled further artist reveals before the gates open.
Weekend passes are $99 plus a booking fee, sold online only through Trybooking on the festival website. Buying at the door is not an option.
Find out more here.
This article was made in partnership with Marysville Music Weekend.
