What began as intimate concerts in local backyards has grown to a major event in the Bathurst annual calendar on the top of Mount Panorama – Wahluu.

The expansion of the event has meant that the festival organisers are now able to include and extensive array of musicians from the Central West and to give live performance opportunities to numerous young emerging artists.

Talented young local performers still in their teens are able to experience playing on the same bill as national and international stars such as The Black Sorrows with Vika and Linda Bull and Kate Miller-Heidke.

One of the aims of the festival is to connect local musicians to state, national and international counterparts and to foster interesting and artistically productive collaborations.

This is why Music Viva Australia supports the festival as an important financial sponsor.

In 2016 this aim will be achieved through a collaboration between Mikel Simic, the front man of Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen the local Sounds Live Choir and other local musicians performing at the festival. 

Mikel will spend the week leading up the Inland Sea of Sound jamming with these local performers and working on new shared arrangements of songs which they will then perform together on the Bedouin stage on Saturday, November 4.

Later that evening Mikel will be joined on the Wahluu stage by the Black Sea Gentlemen who will then be followed by the festival headliner Kate Miller-Heidke.

But the music doesn’t stop with Kate.

After her riveting performance on the Wahluu stage the audience will be invited to more of a “festival club” atmosphere in the Bedouin marquee.

In keeping with the theme of featuring local artists alongside national and international stars the festival will conclude with audience dancing to the Inland sea of Sound House Band featuring local musicians Rob Shannon, Dale Tuckey, Ebbo Brown and Quinn Luxford.