Festival Changes

In its third year, Deni Blues & Roots Festival becomes Big Sky Blues & Roots. The change is to give the event “a unique identity that more accurately reflects the spirit and location of a festival taking place on the expansive, striking landscape, under the big sky of the Riverina Plains,” say Michael Chugg and Rob Potts. Announced for the April 4-5 event are Michael Franti, Zac Brown Band, Mavis Staples, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, and Australia’s Harry Hookey, Dallas Frasca, Dale Winters and Benny Walker.

New Home For Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain

Eighteen months after the founders of progressive music festival Sugar Mountain teamed with Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Group, the event returns Jan. 24 sporting changes.

The event, founded by Tig Huggins, Pete Keen, Brett Louis and Nicci Reid, moves from the For to allow for a new five-stage format. Among 27 acts announced so far are US artists Nas, BodyHead, Seattle electronic music duo ODESZA, Ariel Pink, Anthony Naples, Swans, and Dan Deacon, as well as Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and Midnight Juggernauts.

Brooklyn’s Terrible Records presents a one-off show Terrible Love, featuring