The Australia Day LIVE! concert has a new finish time of 10:30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time – an hour longer than recent previous editions – according to the event’s website.
As far as we are aware, this excludes the hour-long pre-show entertainment portion of the program, which begins normally at 6:30pm AEDT.
The main concert is a television event featuring musical performances of Australian songs from Australian artists. Held from the Southern Forecourt of the Sydney Opera House, the concert is coordinated with fireworks from Circular Quay, city buildings & the Sydney Opera House, the latter also featuring projection mapping while the Sydney Harbour Bridge hosts a light show. Aquatic entertainment & sometimes aerial displays feature around Circular Quay as well, which is rounded out by pre-recorded television packages and live interviews that fill in the remainder of the time of the concert. Sometimes extra performances from other Circular Quay foreshore locations are also held.
All previous editions had a main show duration of 2 hours, except the inaugural edition in 2015 which went 1.5 hours. It now seems, based on the website, the main concert has been expanded to 3 hours duration. What the extra hour will feature is unknown. Normally the concert finishes with a major 15-minute fireworks display over Circular Quay at 9:15pm AEDT, having fired mini fireworks displays throughout the remainder of the concert after sunset. Will this major display now be at 10:15pm AEDT?
If you want to attend the live concert, limited free tickets for the seated area will be made available in about a fortnight. If you miss out on a ticket, access to the rest of Circular Quay is not ticketed on the evening so you can watch the fireworks & other aquatic entertainment!
Artists for the upcoming concert have not yet been announced.
Australia Day LIVE! 2025 will be held at 7:30pm AEDT on the 26th of January, televised on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Television & iView.
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