Melbourne Music Week Announces Full 2017 Program

Melbourne Music Week will take over the city for nine days of glorious entertainment from mid-next month, and organisers have today revealed the full scope of excellence set to shine a light on quality music of all stripes.

Based out of its ultra-classy hub at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne Music Week will sprawl to Melbourne Town Hall, the steps of Parliament House, the State Library, Federation Square, MPavilion and the city's trams, leaving no nook or cranny untouched by the wide-ranging celebrations.

In addition to the previously announced Cathedral shows for DJ Hell, Julianna Barwick, Sampa The Great and Jacques Greene, MMW has revealed that it'll be turning the adjoining car park into a live music space crammed with local and international acts, including 2016 Melbourne Prize for Music winner Kutcha Edwards, rising Brisbane hip hop luminary Miss Blanks, The Cat Empire's vocalist/trumpet whiz Harry James Angus, plus a raft of soul/R&B/hip hop goodness from the likes of Baro, Big Words, ESESE, Nasty Mars and Villette.

Also on the cards will be the Australian debut performance from Virginian singer and instrumentalist Masego, supported by Haiku Hands, Silentjay and The Bad Opera Allstars, featuring Billy Davis, Blasko, Jordan Dennis and Tentendo.

On the wider stage, the esteemed Live Music Safari returns in 2017, in tribute to four decades of punk; 10 venues will go free-entry for the night on Thursday 23 November as more than 50 artists from a diversity of genres get loose for the greater good.

In MPavilion, the Melbourne Meat Market and Howey Place, the "unique and thought-provoking music experiences" of Self-Made will showcase the more intrepid and innovative artistry out there, while massive free, all-ages concert Live At The Steps will welcome Skegss, Tired Lion, Mallrat and Baker Boy to the steps of Parliament House.

For the visually inclined, the Visionary Sounds program — delivered in cahoots with Melbourne Women In Film Festival — will highlight the best of music videos made by local women, screening under the stars at Rooftop Cinema, while MPavilion will welcome WHY PUNK?, a deep dive into the city's vibrant punk-rock history featuring "discussions, first-hand stories, teenage diary excerpts, poetry, prose and behind-the-scenes tales" from the local community.

The whole thing is positively exhaustive, and it'd be well worth checking out the full spread of what's on offer in detail.

Melbourne Music Week runs from 17-25 November. See the event's website for the whole picture.