Mullum Roots festival 2026
Date
Saturday 11 July 2026 11:00 AM - Sunday 12 July 2026 11:00 PM (UTC+11)
Location
Mullumbimby
Mullum Roots Festival is back in Mullumbimby — July 11–12, 2026! After a sold‑out 2025, we’re expanding with a new venue and double the seating to bring you even more of the warm, eclectic roots music you love.
Headliners & highlights: Alex Lloyd , Busby Marou , The Fauves Dave Graney Marcia & Damian Howard (Homemade Jam) , Jo Jo Smith , Bill Chambers+ local favourites, emerging acts and our Youth Battle of the Bands.
And that’s just the start — a major headline act is coming soon.
Tickets on sale now — limited availability.
"the Serge Gainsbourg/Lee Hazelwood/Jim Morrison/Scott Walker/Skip Spence/Ern Malley/Lenny Bruce of Australian music.
A genius songwriter with effortless presence and command, and yet also an invisible chameleon, a reflecting surface, an anonymous conduit.
Anyone who saw his and Clare Moore’s ATP sets last year will not want to miss these.
Dave is one of the all time greats. I learned much of what I know from him. Rock and Roll is where he hides”. Stewart Lee
"Last nights Dave Graney gig at Leith Cricket Club was seriously one of the best gigs I've been to in a while. Imagine Robert Forster channelling Frank Zappa whilst dressed as a cowboy John Waters. So much charisma" @blasts_of_static c/o instagram Oct 2017.
"It’s all worth the evening — busted shoes, city munters, a missing twenty-dollar note — when the band finish the main set with Mt Gambier Night, distilling all of The MistLY’s exercises in poise and restraint into four compressed minutes. It’s exceptionally beautiful: still quite pop, but with a layered density.
After pretending they’re not going to do an encore, Graney & co close the night with Rock & Roll is Where I Hide. It crackles over with dangerous energy, Graney delivering his prose with a sneering cadence, and it hits its theme too well: Tinker-Tailor-Spy, this is not a real person you’re looking at.
It isn’t exactly so much fun as essential: merci, comrades…"
DERMOT CLARKE - Brisbane Time Off
"* Dave Graney is one of Australia’s most iconoclastic contemporary music artists. He works outside the mainstream and inhabits that region somewhere between the spotlight and obscurity, consistently producing a prolific stream of high quality work that sometimes sneaks under the guard of the gatekeepers and becomes briefly visible to the masses". Andrew Watt – online interview and review
"Graney remains a sonic explorer, boldly going where no other Australian artist dares. Younger artists would kill to have the energy that’s on display here".
- Jeff Jenkins
Icons of Australian music culture.
Diverse in genre, style, delivery and composition.
Highly creative lyrically and musically, winning Aria Awards early in their careers, marking their success as original dynamic performers.
No two album releases resemble the last.....They stand alone and together as testiment of an impressive body of collaborative work..... Through the encompassment
of experience, talent, creativity and originality arise eclectic compositions, of theatrical poignant witty clever topical ironic reflective cool banana loungesque with a twist of far horizoned interior heat hazed mirages cultural mythology tyrannical distance in second hand cars whose makers are now extinct.