The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is a not-for-profit
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
festival that has been held each year since 2010 in the city of
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
in Australia and that by 2013 had grown to become the world's second-largest event of its kind.
The festival was launched in 2010 by the former Melbourne nightclub owners Neville Sice and David Read and has been run each year since then by them. It was the first Australian festival to use "crowdfunding" as its main source of seed money.
The American singer
Mary Wilson of
The Supremes
The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and the most successful ...
was the headliner artist in 2013 when the festival was reported to have attracted total audiences of more than 15,200.
The fifth annual Melbourne Cabaret Festival took place between 19 June and 6 July 2014 at various
nightclub
A nightclub (music club, discothèque, disco club, or simply club) is an entertainment venue during nighttime comprising a dance floor, lightshow, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who plays recorded music.
Nightclubs gener ...
venues across the city and was reported to have featured more than 100 performers in 30 separate shows by cabaret and
burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. artists from Australia and the United Kingdom.
References
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External links
Melbourne Cabaret Festival* https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneCabaret. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
Cabaret
Festivals in Melbourne
Recurring events established in 2010
Performing arts in Melbourne