This annual festival is held in the attractive inland town of Ubud, a haven for artists and craftspeople.

Danielle Wright looks at what's to love about this year's Lantern Festival.

Liz Light gets a world of music at WOMAD.

The City of Sails celebrates its birthday this weekend with a historic regatta, as it has done for 172 years. Danielle Wright finds out what to expect at this year's event.

A sweet, artistic, free spirit, with a voice that rivals Enya and Bjork, New York-based Cameron Mesirow, who works under the artist name Glasser, is the kind of musician who dreams up the idea of a two-person organ, and then actually gets one made.

Belgian-born Australian indie pop artist Gotye (you say it like "Gaultier"), whose real name is Wally De Backer, is much loved in Australia.

Max Cavalera and his brother Iggor didn't speak to each other for 10 years after Brazilian metal legends Sepultura splintered into two camps.

Noel Gallagher is in the process of belittling me - and anyone else with an office job for that matter.

2012 will see My Chemical Romance celebrating 10 years together, 10 years of uniting the teen masses with their anti-establishment messages and powerful punk glam rock.

Let's just say there is no love lost at all between former Battles singer, guitarist and on-stage crazy man Tyondai Braxton and his old band mates.

Like his good mate Noel Gallagher, Tom Meighan doesn't mind letting the world know how great he thinks his band - Kasabian - is, and for that matter, how great he is.

The dismal holiday weather hasn't been kind to some businesses - but others can't stop smiling. Michael Dickison reports on the winners and losers of our damp start to summer

Photos from Rhythm and Vines 2011, an annual three-day music festival held at Waiohika Estate Vineyard in Gisborne.

For a week every year, the picturesque alpine village of Mayrhofen hosts the biggest, loudest snow festival in Europe.

Scott Kara's week of films, music, television and festivals.