12/08/2026
🎤 GIVE YOUR MUSIC SOME GIG ROOM! 🎶
Ready to take your music from the bedroom, garage or rehearsal room to a real stage?
The Gig Room’s Open Mic gives emerging artists and musicians the chance to build confidence, gain live performance experience and connect with a real audience.
🎶 What: The Gig Room Open Mic
đź“Ť Where: The Bundanoon Club @ 70 Erith St Bundanoon
đź“… When: This Sunday 16th August from 1.00pm
🎤 Support Act: 2.30pm | Main Act: 3.15pm
Artist bookings essential: 0409 871 763
Come along, support local talent and help give Southern Highlands musicians their moment on stage! 🎵
GIVE YOUR MUSIC SOME GIG ROOM:
Where Rehearsal Becomes The Real Thing
As a musician, rehearsal is everything.
You learn your songs at home, tighten the arrangements in the garage, work on harmonies with your bandmates and spend countless hours making sure every note, chord and lyric is where it needs to be.
But there comes a point when rehearsal alone can only take you so far.
Nothing prepares an emerging artist for live performance quite like actually stepping onto a stage, standing beneath the lights, hearing their music through a professional sound system and looking out at a real audience waiting to hear what they can do.
That’s where The Gig Room comes in.
The Gig Room gives emerging musicians and performers an opportunity to take their music out of the bedroom, garage or rehearsal studio and put it where it ultimately belongs: on stage.
Performing live teaches you things that simply can’t be learnt during rehearsal. There’s the adrenaline rush before the first song, the nervous tension as you walk onto the stage, the excitement when the room responds, the challenge of recovering when something does not go exactly according to plan, and the satisfaction that comes from connecting with an audience through your own music.
Those experiences are part of becoming a polished performer.
For artists with ambitions of turning professional, The Gig Room can become an important stepping stone. It’s a place to develop stagecraft, build confidence, refine a set, experiment with arrangements, learn how to work with professional sound and lighting, and discover how your music translates from the rehearsal room to a live environment.
You can rehearse a song a hundred times, but playing it in front of an audience tells you something different. You begin to understand which songs connect immediately, where an arrangement might need tightening, when to speak to the crowd, how to pace a set and, perhaps most importantly, how to become comfortable being yourself on stage.
These are skills every great live performer has had to learn somewhere.
The Gig Room provides that opportunity in a supportive environment where developing artists can gain genuine stage experience without needing to already have a professional résumé, a booking agent or years of performances behind them.
And you certainly don’t have to have dreams of becoming the next international superstar to take part.
Live music is also about enjoyment, friendship, creativity and the simple pleasure of sharing a song with other people. For singers, songwriters and musicians who may never want to pursue music professionally, The Gig Room offers the chance to experience the magic of live performance simply because they love doing it.
Whether you’ve written your first original song, formed your first band, returned to music after years away, or you’re seriously working towards a professional career, there’s enormous value in getting onto a stage and playing.
Every accomplished performer started somewhere.
For emerging artists across the Southern Highlands, The Gig Room is designed to be one of those places.
A rehearsal room helps you become a better musician.
The Gig Room helps you become a polished performer.
What: The Gig Room’s Open Mic
Where: The Bundanoon Club – 70 Erith St
When: This Sunday starting at 1.00pm (Support Act: 2.30pm – Main Act: 3.15pm)
Who: Emerging artists and up-and-coming musicians
Artists bookings essential on – 0409 871 763
Paddock Restaurant – 12.00pm to 2.00pm and 5.30pm to 7.30pm
