Two monumental concertos, two pianos and two emerging Australasian talents filled Lucas Parklands on Sunday afternoon, as Australian pianist Reuben Tsang and New Zealand pianist Madeleine Xiao took on works…
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Good Soil festival plants the seeds for a new Mapleton tradition
More than 1,000 people gathered at Mapleton Public House on Sunday for the inaugural Good Soil: Farm. Table. Beast. festival, transforming the historic venue into a showcase of local food,…
Piers Lane Reshapes Bach, Mozart and Chopin Into a Journey Beyond C Minor at Lucas Parklands
Piers Lane performed at Lucas Parklands on Thursday, 2 July at 2pm, opening with Bach’s Toccata in C minor before turning to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, heard in Johann…
Mapleton Choir Packs Out Kureelpa Hall for Sold-Out Weekend Concerts
Nearly 200 people attended the Mapleton Choir’s two concerts at Kureelpa Hall on June 6 and 7, with both performances playing to a full house across the weekend. The choir,…
A Brief Encounter and a Lasting Impression at Lucas Parklands
It is not often that a concert audience is left emotionally exhausted, but that is the only honest way to describe what Konstantin Shamray and Daniel Le delivered at Lucas…
Montville Celebrates the Art of Wood
For a single long weekend in early May, Montville became the woodcraft capital of Australia. From the sawdust-scented sheds at the Montville Sportsground to the polished gallery floors of the…
From the Hinterland to the Concert Hall: A New Road to the QSO
On Sunday 3 May, twenty residents from the Montville, Mapleton, Maleny and Nambour region boarded a Mystic Mountain Tours coach and headed south to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at…
Maleny Music Festival Named Festival of the Year at Queensland Music Awards
The Sunshine Coast Hinterland’s grassroots community festival has taken the People’s Choice award at the state’s most prestigious music industry night, a first for an event that has never chased…
A Star Rises Over the Hinterland
The kookaburras, it seems, know quality when they hear it. On a golden Sunday afternoon in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, the intimate concert space at Lucas Parklands in Montville fell…
A Season of Piano Excellence Returns to Lucas Parklands
Montville’s celebrated rainforest concert hall announces a compelling first half of 2026, featuring four distinguished pianists across three landmark programmes Lucas Parklands, the celebrated concert venue and accommodation estate set…