Jack Lumsdaine wrote and recorded the songs Canberra's Calling to You and Queanbeyan in 1938, the sesquicentenary of European settlement.[1]
Promoters and record labels in Canberra include Capital City, Dream Damage, Hardrush Music, Hellosquare Recordings, KP Records (Distributed internationally by WIDEawake Entertainment),Bad Sounds, Canberra Musicians Club, Canberra Music Workshop, Metaphysical Productions (Hip Hop), Vacant Room Records and Birds Love Fighting Records.
Venues
Venues for music in Canberra that are bars, clubs, community organisations or businesses that hold music based events including halls and other spaces that are available for hire.
The Royal Military College Band is based at Duntroon. Other groups that present classical and jazz concerts in Canberra include the ANU School of Music, Art Song Canberra, Brew Guitar Duo,[66]Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra City Band, The Canberra Jazz Club, The Gods Cafe, The Griffyn Ensemble, Guitar Trek,[67] Salut Baroque!, Seven Harp Ensemble, Stopera, Australia|Stopera, and Wesley Music Centre.
Canberra is also home to a number of community and youth ensembles and organisations including Music For Canberra[68] (resultant of a merge in 2015 between Key Arts Organisations Music For Everyone & Canberra Youth Music, funded by ArtsACT), the Canberra Choral Society, Canberra Chamber Orchestra, Musica da Camera, and the National Capital Orchestra.[69]